Necessary-Meringue-1 t1_jegshy4 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:20 PM

It's a pretty cool resource to get to look at an enterprise recommendation algorithm like that.

An aside, if you want a chuckle, search the term "Elon" in the repo:https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/search?q=elon https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/search?q=elon&type=issues

[edit 1]
since it's gone now, here's the back up provided by u/MjrK:https://i.imgur.com/jxqaByA.png
[edit 2] lol
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commit/ec83d01dcaebf369444d75ed04b3625a0a645eb9#diff-a58270fa1b8b745cd0bd311bed9cd24c983de80f96e7bd445e16e88b61e492b8L225

MjrK t1_jegu8rl wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:33 PM

Repository Query Results for "elon"

Twitter post about 4 global user types, one of which is user-is-elon

Code comment explaining the user types

midnitte t1_jeh2jjj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:36 PM

>An aside, if you want a chuckle, search the term "Elon" in the repo:https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/search?q=elon

annnnnd.... it's gone

t98907 t1_jegy79j wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:03 PM

However, it does not seem to affect the recommendation algorithm.

Necessary-Meringue-1 t1_jegz6md wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:10 PM

I think we can safely go with Occam's Razor here. I would assume the "influential celebrity" is the "power_user" type, see: https://i.imgur.com/s6ntUil.png

Either way, I'm not surprised they are giving tweets from Musk their own type. Why wouldn't they. It probably became necessary to deal with his antics.