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How to work with the Twitter algorithm
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Stephen Davies
April 07, 2023
Here’s today’s Dart.
People are creating records of fake historical events using AI
How to work with the Twitter algorithm
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links
Today’s picks
Highlights if you’ve only got a few minutes
Deep fakes: People are creating records of fake historical events using AI
This Vice article discusses the implications of AI-generated images, which are becoming increasingly realistic and can be used to spread false information.
Key takeaways:
AI-generated images can be used to create false historical events.
AI-generated images can be used to spread false information and conspiracy theories.
AI experts and social media companies are working to find ways to prevent the spread of misinformation.
How to work with the Twitter algorithm
Twitter recently unveiled its open-source recommendation algorithm to provide greater transparency to users and people have begun analysing the data to learn how to create tweets that the algorithm favours.
AI specialist Rowan Cheung analysed the algorithm data using GPT-4 and included his findings in this tweet thread.
Additionally, Peter Yang summarised the algorithm’s weighting in this tweet.
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links
This Verge article discusses the recent restriction of Twitter's API access to Substack, a platform for writers, and the implications of this restriction on writers and other developers.
Key takeaways:
Twitter has recently restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts.
Twitter has also restricted promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts.
It is assumed because Substack has recently launched a new Twitter-like feature.
Twitter's new API policies have caused various companies to cut out or paywall certain features that interacted with Twitter.