by Joshua Young at The Post Millennial
“When needed, the government can intervene with the Twitter algorithm,” Tey wrote. “In fact, @TwitterEng (Twitter Engineering) even has a class for it – ‘GovernmentRequested.'”
Tey linked directly to the code on GitHub.
On March 17, Musk announced he was going to make the algorithm open source later in the month and said, “Our ‘algorithm’ is overly complex & not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things , but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found!”
Tey also found that a Twitter user’s “following-to-follower ratio matters and that page rankings get reduced for users who have “a low number of followers but a high number of followings.”
The algorithm gives a boost to Twitter Blue subscribers. Twitter also categorizes four user groups, “power users,” “Democrat users,” “Republican users,” and “@elonmusk to “track and compare” the frequency of tweet impressions on other users.
Tey identified factors that impact whether or not…