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I remember once someone talking about how Facebook and Twitter are empowered by leveraging their interest graph to get network effects. https://t.co/sP4BCOptURHonestly I may subscribe to topics now that they surface things like this. I love interests graphs now. https://t.co/eiheQWv5Bq
Is this a food? Are these pets?What are those! https://t.co/RbOylyViJD
Twitter will soon let you follow AI curated topics [August 14, 2019] https://t.co/I8EjjRM98SStarts rolling it out to everyeone [January 26, 2021]https://t.co/OUZCWXBeES
You will be force fed content from the algorithmic engagement stream. And you will like it.https://t.co/h4svAmJbiK
Are the new users gone yet?https://t.co/Clo9HOhfGJ
Seeing the UI change on a per-widget basis makes me think it's being managed by two different teams internally. I assume twitter hires great people and this is a structural problem + symptom of "Conway's Law". But it could be that they are just incompetent. Hard to say.
Red: Things I Actually Care about, people I followed.Green: Promoted Content (always #adnoyance)Blue: Algorithmic Content Widgets That Game Engagement https://t.co/4naoYzmJtk
I think a lot about PMs getting bonuses for meeting interaction goals set by misguided MAU targets used to promote ads to advertisers. Really looking forward to this (if it isn't out already)https://t.co/NG4BBZV4tl
