I just recently deleted my quite popular explanation to how twitters algorithm might work.

The reasons are:

I was not precise enough about the way twitter creates a saliency estimation.

And people used it as a political way of "hey look it's not racist".

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@bkastl That's sad. I thought it was very interesting. ☹

@bkastl I also think it was refreshing to see a take that was orthogonal to the "is the algorithm biased" take.

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