Mar 28, 2023 14:00:00

It turns out that Twitter increased the number of tweets displayed by ``VIP users'' including President Biden and lawmakers

There are two types of tabs on the Twitter timeline: 'Following', which displays only the tweets of users who are following, and 'Recommended', which displays posts of users who are not following. The tweets displayed in 'recommended' are selected by Twitter's

own algorithm , but from a document obtained by overseas media 'Platformer', 'Twitter has created a list of VIP users, and the display of the corresponding user The unfair situation of 'increasing the number of times' has become clear.

The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting

New: For months, Twitter has maintained a list of VIP users, including LeBron James, Glenn Greenwald, Ben Shapiro, AOC, and Marc Andreessen, that it monitors and gives increased visibility to on the platform . co/PnXhb6dvth

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 28, 2023

Twitter's timeline is divided into 'Recommended' and 'Following' as follows, and 'Recommended' displays a mixture of tweets from users who are following and those who are not following. At this time, the user cannot explicitly specify the posts displayed in 'Recommended', and the tweets selected by Twitter's own algorithm are displayed in a row.

'Recommended' is not displayed completely randomly, but tweets are displayed according to the categories that the user is interested in. However, in February 2023, it was reported that `` change to prioritize Elon Musk CEO '' was added to the `` recommended '' selection algorithm, and Twitter built a mechanism to prioritize tweets of specific users. It was pointed out that the possibility of

Elon Mask is developing a ``special system to increase the number of times his tweets are displayed''-GIGAZINE

According to documents obtained by Platformer, Twitter created a VIP list with around 35 users and increased the number of impressions of VIP users. Some of the users registered in the VIP list are as follows.

Joe Biden (U.S. President)
LeBron James (basketball player)
Ben Shapiro (conservative critic)
Catturd (conservative commentator working under a pseudonym)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democratic Congressman)
Glenn Greenwald (founder of news site The Intercept)
Marc Andreessen (developer of Netscape Navigator)

According to Zoë Schiffer, Editor-in-Chief of Platformer, Twitter's development team monitored the number of impressions of VIP users' tweets, and if they detected a drop in the number of impressions, they would tweak the code to increase the number of impressions.

If Twitter engineers identify segments of the ranking system where tweets from these accounts are “dropping,” they can tweak the code to ensure the tweets are always shown.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 28, 2023

Mask CEO has declared that 'on March 31, 2023, we will open source the'recommended' algorithm.' However, Schiffer said, ``It is questionable whether the disclosure of the algorithm will reveal the reason for the high number of impressions of a particular user.If secret VIP users are given preferential treatment, what does it mean to disclose the algorithm? Is there a

Elon Musk announces 'Twitter code will be open sourced on March 31, 2023'-GIGAZINE