Holy hell. This is real.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala#L224-L247
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What happens if the algorithm identifies the author as one of those labels?
It gets tested to make sure future changes don’t adversely impact one of those labels more than others. That’s it (according to the comments in the code).
Interesting - thanks!
It's just for analytics, not for boosting
Understood. And yet… here we are.
There's a lot of cool shit:
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/ci/ci.sh