Here's What Elon Musk Suggested About Twitter Algorithm

January 17, 2023 Story: Divya Sinha

Elon Musk in his tweet detailed how the Twitter algorithm works.

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He informed his followers that trashing accounts that one hates will cause the algorithm to show them more of those accounts.

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This is because it will work as the key to interactions.

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He further detailed it by saying that “if you love trashing that account, then you will probably also love trashing this account.”

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A Twitter user responded to Elon’s tweet and said that she avoids clicking the like button on Sports trends because it keeps showing her sports all the time in trending topics from 1 to 20+.

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To this, Elon Musk responded that the recommendation algorithm will get much better and will be open source.

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Recently, it was reported that Twitter added 30 crypto tokens to its ‘$Cashtags’ feature.

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