Twitter's 'Recommended' elucidates what kind of algorithm selects tweets

In the field called 'Timeline' that displays Twitter's posts, only the posts selected by the user to 'follow' are displayed, and the posts selected by Twitter's algorithm are added to display the display order. There are two types of tabs called 'Recommended' that are jumbled together. News writer Ryan Broderick explained how Twitter selects recommendations.

I put together a hypothesis about Twitter's For You algorithm and have used it twice now to get a tweet over 1,000 retweets (which is something I haven't been able to do since last November).

*Very sad man who pays for Twitter voice* Here's how I did it...

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) February 27, 2023

Regarding the tweets of people unrelated to the follower being displayed on the recommended tab, Twitter may add a reason such as 'because the person you are following has clicked like' in the tweet. However, sometimes irrelevant posts that are completely unexplainable are displayed.

The posts that appear in the timeline can be somewhat tailored by users choosing topics of interest, but Broderick speculates that the accounts that appear in the recommendations are tagged with these topics. It seems that the selected account is selected. Broderick also saw that tweets about topics that were already gaining attention were more likely to appear in the recommendations.

In addition, Mr. Broderick notes a certain behavior of Mr. Elon Musk since the introduction of the recommendation function. Mr. Mask usually posts tweets frequently, but he has been repeating the action of 'replying to his own tweets' from time to time, as is often done by accounts that post 18-ban content spam. .

And, finally, I recently noticed Musk doing a very specific trick that is mainly done by teenage tweetdeckers trying to sell dildos and promote Telegram channels for hentai: He was replying to his own tweets.pic.twitter.com/rupUP8nSBv

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) February 27, 2023

Mr. Broderick focused on this method and attempted to reply to his tweets with his opinion on a certain topic, and to throw his opinion on tweets that had already been retweeted many times. As a result, both were successful, and it seems that one tweet succeeded in being retweeted more than 8000 times overnight.

For these reasons, Broderick said, ``Twitter uses invisible tags called topics to organize tweets, and I think that tweets about topical posts and tweets with many replies tend to grow.'' I was.