Right now “featured” is just the most popular accounts (as defined by number of followers) but obviously that isn’t a long term solution because it creates positive feedback where accounts that already have visibility get even more. A much better idea is to derive the list of featured accounts is from hard-to-fake metrics. Working on that now.
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Thanks for explaining, Stuart. I'd reckon this will not be an easy one to figure out as everyone wants to stay out of everything bad twitter algo had to offer. However, one thing i found useful was the 'topic of interest', and maybe this might benefit you among your other hard-to-fake metrics.
I like how simple and clean Satellite it. Another interesting read from Stuart when it's out would be his 'hard-to-fake' metrics, something he is working on
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