Twitter should not only open source its algorithm but also create a marketplace where anyone can build their own algorithms and use the algorithms others create
increases usage — decreases assholery — rebuilds trust I wrote all about it how it could work and why to do it here: https://every.to/...
Every Nathan Baschez
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Discussion
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@ericnewcomer
Eric Newcomer
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Interesting argument from @nbashaw: opening up the twitter algorithm & allowing different versions could be good business for Twitter. Would be a nice compromise position between the different ideological camps. Let camps have their own community norms https://every.to/... https:…
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@jack
@jack
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@theAkshEffect ... yep
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@carnage4life
@carnage4life
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A lot of “solutions” for the problems with social media don't actually solve the problems people care about the most. Putting the ranking algorithm for the Twitter timeline on GitHub or being able to choose your own algorithm doesn't address the issues people complain most about …
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@nbashaw
Nathan Baschez
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@Twitter Opening up the algorithm to transparency and choice would be a Good Thing — increases usage — decreases assholery — rebuilds trust I wrote all about it how it could work and why to do it here: https://every.to/...
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@ejang
@ejang
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Open platform co-op https://twitter.com/...
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@theaksheffect
@theaksheffect
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@nbashaw @Twitter This is actually what @jack wanted to do and mentioned it multiple times while he was CEO
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@hkanji
@hkanji
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“Commoditize your complement” https://every.to/... via @getmatterapp
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@adhutchinson
Andrew Hutchinson
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An interesting look at the proposed open source algorithm approach for Twitter from @nbashaw - it eyed certainly be worth exploring if Twitter's entity classification, in particular, could be improved to make its algorithm more effective https://every.to/...
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@nash076
@nash076
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This is how bids happen: rumor, leaks, but nobody is screaming from a hilltop with a trumpet up their ass. Unlike Elon. https://nypost.com/...
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@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
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“When Musk was pretending to take $TSLA private, he pretended that he was going to let all of Tesla's existing shareholders remain shareholders of the new ‘private’ Tesla. This is not a thing.. And now he's doing it again.. Sure buddy!” @matt_levine $TWTR https://www.bloomberg.co…
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@maxkennerly
Max Kennerly
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The one consistent thing through Elon Musk's temper tantrum has been his total inability to grasp the basics of how social media works. It is, for example, 100% “legal” to use the reply function to spam everyone. Users get banned for it because of Twitter's Terms of Service. http…
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@decryptmedia
Decrypt
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“It takes some pretty impressive mental gymnastics to associate any type of ‘freedom’ with the richest man in the world initiating a hostile takeover,” says @ummjackson, co-creator of Dogecoin. https://decrypt.co/... https://twitter.com/...