howitworks

let's be real: everyone caught @nikitabier joining @lennysan's pod this week. this was basically the super bowl for terminally online startup/product enthusiasts like me 😅 this pod was incredibly dense with tactics but I don’t feel like anyone shared a great bookmarkable summary on X so just wanted to share my... See more

X just open-sourced the code for the “For You” algorithm Everything you need to know in 1 tweet and 1 image: 1. The Raw Inputs (Data) Everything starts with three big buckets of data: - Social graph → who you follow, who follows you,... See more

> be me > curious how X decides who goes viral and who gets shadowbanned into oblivion > read the source code. all of it. 400,000 lines > it's a mess. it's a masterpiece. it's a threat model disguised as a social network > proceed to get 7M impressions and 7k... See more