its da algo baby
Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you?I spent the evening analyzing it.Here’s what you need to know:— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023
1. Likes, then retweets, then repliesHere’s the ranking parameters:• Each like gets a 30x boost• Each retweet a 20x• Each reply only 1xIt’s much more impactful to earn likes and retweets than replies. pic.twitter.com/hwpriLgEXj— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023
2. Images & videos helpBoth images and videos lead to a nice 2x boost. pic.twitter.com/KQgkA2Qj6J— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
hey everybody thanks for watching my tweets be sure to like retweet and possibly reply, in descending order, til next time, BYE
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
its kind of funny thinking through the logic of ranking likes higher than retweets, retweets are what you want other people to see but likes are what you actually like, idk feel like a retweet is just fundamentally a stronger endorsement and should be ranked higher
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:54 (one year ago) link
Well I had the sense that actually linking to Bandcamp was a no-no in terms of tweeting about your new record, there you have it.
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
ive seen people make a thread with the first or more posts having an image and text then tweet the link in the last post, and it turns out they did in fact crack the code
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 April 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
as someone who mainly uses twitter to post links to my site, this is some bullshit right here
3. Links hurt, unless you have enough engagementGenerally external links get you marked as spam.Unless you have enough engagement. pic.twitter.com/5BNbb4YvGJ— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 2 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
just absolutely nowhere you can share your work any more, everything is a closed shop
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 2 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
I never cracked the code. Didn't try very hard and just figured it wasn't worth it. I'd post some silly thing on Facebook and gets a hundred likes and 50 comments of interesting conversation. I'd post something on twitter and crickets. That was all I needed to know.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 2 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
isn't it kind of weird to post memes of yourself?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 April 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
what is tiktok if not attempting to make a meme of yourself
― mh, Sunday, 2 April 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
i am become meme meme of myself
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 April 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
plus cest meme chose is french for "let the memes choose". they chose you
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Sunday, 2 April 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
can’t believe Elon would start behaving weirdly wrt twitter, memes, or himself in April 2023
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Sunday, 2 April 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
📹
― Alba, Sunday, 2 April 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
Ryan Broderick recently wrote about how he'd cracked the Twitter algo:https://www.garbageday.email/p/i-remembered-how-awful-it-is-to-go
― jaymc, Sunday, 2 April 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Aaaahhhhhahahaha Elon got mad at people dunking on twitter blue subscribers. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/BhZW7Y5TBc— ʎǝlpǝH ɐnɥsoſ (@JoshuaHedley) April 2, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 2 April 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
As far as I can tell, the meme does not work in that context...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 2 April 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
i hadn’t realized how shitty the twitter blue features are.. who in their right mind would pay for any of this lol
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue
― flopson, Sunday, 2 April 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
I liked what Chrissy Tiegen said, "oh my god just take the checkmark already who cares"
― Dan S, Sunday, 2 April 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
The amount of celebrities straight up saying they don’t want the check and would be embarrassed to have it is astounding, truly an all time marketing failure
Kinda feel Elon ain’t actually gonna go through with it in the end, like he’ll get enough removed to make a mess of things and then just move on to an even dumber idea
― frogbs, Sunday, 2 April 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fsvnjv7XwAAq2tm?format=jpg&name=small
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
One small difference here is once you subscribe you don’t have to write the news articles yourself
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
he really thought his plan would work cut costs to the bone then make enough from subscriptions to be profitable but it didnt
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
I mean, I really like reading twitter every day, it is kind of addictive honestly and I want it to survive and I like all of the people I follow on it and want to read posts from them every day - in film, literature, gay/trans issues, politics, music, art - so I can see he has a point, and he's saying you will pay for the pleasure of the reading the NYT but not twitter
so I'm not sure
― Dan S, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
I would’ve paid money to read a different Twitter at a different time in my life but now that I’ve been off of it for months I’m like it’s fine actually I don’t need tweets in my life at all
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 3 April 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
that's the thing though you can still read it for free, albeit a shittier version where white supremecists automatically get their tweets boosted. Twitter Blue mostly just amplifies your posts, which is a dumb as shit business model since like 90% of the sites users don't really tweet much anyway
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
the idea of paying for a link-through reading model like apple news or w/e makes sense because, of the few people that click through headlines and read articles, a lot are on twitter!they could have even done an official excerpt thing to preempt screen grabs somehow, kick that traffic upstream and maybe show the highlighted bit in the tweet but you click through and go to the article please don’t implement this, it’s my prior art now
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
feel like they maybe were going to get to something like that, could even drive traffic to the official app, but they got yoked
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
amazing how no one whos ever run twitter including the guy who made it has understood it, maybe no one does
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
i’ll say it many times, but that is what made googlereader good. you could see the social bit about what your friends were interested in and commenting on and then go right to the article. doing all of that in context and being able to do links to the content would be pretty nice
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
no one has broken it like elon has tho they knew enough to not kill the goose
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
I feel like all this stuff was pitched at jack and he was like hmm I will consider it on my next desert fast while I am meditating and then he got back to a computer only to realize he liked looking for hypebeast clothes more than working (relatable)
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
jack was the best ceo cause he just did other things instead of running twitter
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
btw a short fund just put out a big report on how block is a fraud and also used a lot for crime
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link
Block paid to promote a video for a song called “Cash App” which described paying contract killers through the app. The song’s artist was later arrested for attempted murder.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 3 April 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link
honestly difficult to think of a worse CEO for Twitter than Musk, it would be like making Kyrie the commissioner of the NBA while simultaneously allowing him to play
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:24 (one year ago) link
yeah apparently jack had bragged about the many rap songs cash app was mentioned in as a way to demonstrate how hot it was and in the short report they go through and show how all the lyrics are talking about using it for crime lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
Based on current trends, probably close to zero new advertisers on Twitter by April
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
You mean real companies advertising. Dick pills, crypto scams, supplements, shitty home furnishings will take up the slack I’m sure.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 3 April 2023 02:50 (one year ago) link
lol frogbs
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 April 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
Jack has good ideas but he is not a good executive.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 April 2023 08:49 (one year ago) link
so I can see he has a point, and he's saying you will pay for the pleasure of the reading the NYT but not twitter
your subscription to NYT helps pay the people who write the things you read, none of your twitter blue subscription will go to anyone who writes what you read, seems a p important distinction. though elon's "point" follows the path of other disruptors, like streaming music, illegal downloading, etc, where the people who make the money are the people who design the structure that delivers you the art, while the artist is impoverished.
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 10:01 (one year ago) link
and obvs a lot of the NYT is terrible but
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
someone shd start the nytimes for tweets lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
this is not the Succession thread (is it?)
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
twitter meets nytimes meets ilx on the blockchain
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:57 (one year ago) link
When Tweetshelf shut down its free service a few weeks ago, I found myself addictively scrolling Twitter again. Now I'm considering paying for Tweetshelf so I can see the articles people are sharing without feeding my habit. But that's also a feature of Twitter Blue, so it sort of makes me feel like a chump, even tho I wouldn't be giving my money directly to Twitter.
― jaymc, Monday, 3 April 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link
awww, is your 44 billion dollar purchase not going so well?
They should really get rid of that 100 IQ maximum limit for creating an account on Instagram— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
"the site for people who care what their IQ is" is not the selling point he thinks it is
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
rotate cube in mind to login
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link