Elon Musk’s chaotic and capricious management of Twitter constantly throws up surprises, some of which might turn out to be obliquely relevant to the work we do here. The open sourcing of
Twitter’s recommendation algorithm not only lays bare the ego of the man (Elon tweets being hard coded into the recommendation algo), and the US centricity of what has become a global platform (tweets divided into ‘Republican’ vs ‘Democrat’) but also a reasonable guide book as to how to get your tweets go further, get more reads and grow a following - useful for recruitment and content marketers
PS: it is striking how similar social network recommendation algorithms are