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Community Archive
An open, searchable archive of tweets that members of the community have chosen to make public. Browse profiles, search conversations, and build on the data.
Twitter's For You Recommendation Algorithm
Twitter has open-sourced a majority of its recommendation algorithm. It offers an exciting opportunity for researchers, industry practitioners, and RecSys enthusiasts to take a close look at how Twitter computes the recommended feed for the For You page. This article described Twitter’s end-to-end recommender system along with relevant literature and code references.
Ian Vanagas on Twitter / X
I've been enjoying writing screenshot essays lately because they provide more depth than tweets while being easier to finish and share than blogs.To help with this, I built a little app that makes it easier to make nice looking ones: https://t.co/mybEawgwgFEnjoy! https://t.co/gMHUCMzRbL— Ian Vanagas (@IanVanagas) March 30, 2024
How To Import Twitter To Bluesky: Follows and Tweets
Seamlessly move from Twitter to Bluesky with this handy guide If you're migrating from Twitter/X to Bluesky, the new platform can feel lonely until you find people to follow. Fortunately, there are tools available that make it easy to...
Paper Notes - WTF - The Who to Follow Service at Twitter
Explore Twitter's recommendation system - in-memory graph processing with Cassovary, random walks, and SALSA for user suggestions.
Twitter and What Might Have Been
Twitter’s blog is generally a cheery place, with one big exception from 2012: the innocuously named Changes Coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API, and in particular, the section called …
Twitter Thoughts For You
I previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have changed again.
How to Get Started on Bluesky: A Guide for Beginners
Bluesky is the new Twitter equivalent.
How Twitter’s Algorithm Works: A High-level Breakdown
On March 31st, 2023, Twitter made an unprecedented move by releasing the source code for their algorithm. The move is unprecedented because…
Perfect Guidance 🧭 on Twitter / X
Be confident. Believe. You will succeed.— Perfect Guidance 🧭 (@PerfectGuide_) October 11, 2026
Perfect Guidance 🧭 on Twitter / X
Be confident. Believe. You will succeed.— Perfect Guidance 🧭 (@PerfectGuide_) October 11, 2026
Note from 8 February 2024
There are now 68 Twitter archives mapped in `tweetback-canonical`, which means links to the original tweets in other tweetback archives are transformed…
Deep Dive: Inside X (fka Twitter)’s Recommendation Algorithm
Decoding the Machine That Powers Your “For You” Timeline ,When Elon Musk open-sourced Twitter’s recommendation algorithm in March 2023, it…
WTF: the who to follow service at Twitter
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How tweet threads cured my writer's block: Twitter as a medium for sketching
Twitter is a powerful <b>medium for sketching</b>: a tool for fluidly developing ideas in realtime. What can we learn from its design? I think it shows us the power of 1) the right constraints, 2) low barriers to starting and finishing, and 3) a social context.
