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Suggestion for: Twitter promoting misinformation

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Twitter is promoting misinformation.  Twitter is the most susceptible to misinformation because not everyone knows blocking or reporting will debuff a tweet, instead they engage and unintentionally promote the...

sagehawk

The Twitter algorithm is beyond flawed (replies, politics)

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**Describe the bug** When showing the replies to a tweet, the Twitter algorithm consistently elevates junk and in many cases suppresses quality content. Please note that the only way I...

TolstoyDotCom

Change method to static method

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Currently [this](https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/src/python/twitter/deepbird/projects/timelines/scripts/models/earlybird/lolly/parsers.py#L127) method returns just a regex which doesn't uses any class attribute. According to pythonic code this should be a `staticmethod`.

Ibrahim2750mi

Use K-means clustering instead of what you have currently

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So I've had a look around this repo and it looks like there are a LOT of files in it. That's not necessarily a bad thing! But maybe if you...

ecoates-bc

Recommendation Algorithm Failing to Provide Personalized Suggestions

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**Describe the bug** Algorithm for recommendations is not functioning properly. Users are not receiving personalized recommendations based on their interests and behavior on the platform. **To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce...

Eloitor

Wrap this algorithm as a npm package to use as recommender algorithm

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This algorithm is one of a kind. I have read few recommender algorithm . Currently there are only few open source recommender algorithm which are really naive and outdated example...

coolb0y

Tweets have a half-life of 360 minutes, which means that a Tweet's relavancy score will decrease by 50% every 6 hours.

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when older Tweets on Twitter become...

Ruparani777

Poorly named variable inDirectFollowBoost

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inDirectFollowBoost is a multiplicative score boost for results in the searcher's direct follows. However, "in direct follow" can be misunderstood as "indirect follow" which has a different meaning. The variable...

amoore-uat

Method to circumvent automatic keyword analysis

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**Describe the bug** I have noticed In the wild an attempt to bypass the algorithm Keyword detections using a mix of Latin and Cyrillic letters within words. Basically replacing specific...

yaronelh

Go

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