Q&A with Twitter's senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more
Will Oremus / OneZero : Tweets: @ozm , @thedextriarchy , @mediasmarts , @michellemanafy , @risj_oxford , @willoremus , and @willoremus Tweets: OneZero / @ozm : Notice how Twitter is toeing the line to avoid an outright WandaVision spoiler in this Trending topic? @WillOremus talked to the woman behind these tricky editorial decisions. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy : I want to make a time capsule full of Twitter trending summaries etched on stone tablets so in 1000 years it's historians' only record of our culture. https://onezero.medium.com/... @mediasmarts : Paradoxically, attempts by Twitter users to debunk a false meme can result in it trending more widely because the algorithm takes the debunkings as a further signal of the meme's popularity as a discussion topic. (via @WillOremus @ozm) https://onezero.medium.com/... Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy : Who Really Writes Twitter's ‘Trending’ Summaries @OZM https://onezero.medium.com/... ‘Twitter description guy’ isn't a guy. It's Twitter's curation team, and @WillOremus talked to the woman who runs it. https://twitter.com/... @risj_oxford : “Everything that's placed within a Twitter description has to be sourced, and at least two credible organisations or individuals have to have provided that info before we can use it” @WillOremus interviews @JoannaG, who runs the Twitter curation team https://onezero.medium.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Here's @JoannaG, head of Twitter's curation team, on the time Twitter learned the hard way not to spoil the death of a beloved manga character by putting it in a trending topic summary. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : I interviewed Twitter Description Guy, who is not a guy https://onezero.medium.com/...