howitworks

> 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

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