People say Bytedance (Tiktok) has an excellent recommendation system, better at adjusting to interest changes than the other platforms.
Personally I always go out of my way to get the chronological view on twitter, but I have to say I am curious what an open algorithm could mean in practice...
As far as I know the experts say this is because the medium. Twitter has no idea what tweet you're eyeballing because there are 3-20 tweets on your view screen. Tiktok is very aware of what you stopped caring about, because it's no longer being viewed.
> I am curious what an open algorithm could mean in practice...
Could be a series of different algorithms to choose from, such as:
- a feed about the people you follow, ordered by the popularity of their posts among their own followers
- a feed about the people you follow, focusing on people who post least often and tend to be under-represented on a typical chronological timeline.
- an algorithm to suggest topics or other people to follow, based on other similar profiles to yours.
- a feed to focus on newer accounts instead of established accounts...
etc. the sky is the limit. You can then imagine a UI that goes with it to switch from one algorithm to the next so that you don't waste your time scrolling down.
Personally I always go out of my way to get the chronological view on twitter, but I have to say I am curious what an open algorithm could mean in practice...