“Every time you open your phone or refresh your timeline, we score every Tweet from the people you follow since your last visit to determine what Tweets to show you at the top. This scoring step imposes an even greater computational demand on timelines serving infrastructure, as we are now scoring thousands of Tweets per second to satisfy all of the timeline requests.”
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Parts of the Algorithm<div><br></div><div>- The Tweet itself: its recency, presence of media cards (image or video), total interactions (e.g. number of Retweets or likes) </div><div><br></div><div> - The Tweet’s author: your past interactions with this author, the strength of your connection to them, the origin of your relationship You: </div><div><br></div><div> - Tweets you found engaging in the past, how often and how heavily you use Twitter</div>