Recommendation Systems

MK and

I’ve never cared much about the presence or not of a blue check by a user’s name, but I do notice when tweets from people I follow make up a smaller and smaller percentage of my feed. It’s as if neighbors of years moved out from my block overnight, replaced by strangers who all came knocking on my front door carrying not a casserole but a... See more

Eugene Wei • How to Blow Up a Timeline

ssari

I wonder whether/why a For You feed is harder to tune in text-based mediums than video ones. Regardless, agree that the Twitter For You feed doesn't deliver.

as a network scales, it is inevitable that you need a way to sort & rank content.

web 2.0 solved it by ranking for popularity but a better approach could be to have a minimal quality threshold but not to try to rank things above that - so the search is not maximization-driven and leaves more room for serendipity.

h/t ken stanley

sari