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0 pointsjohannes12343214y ago0 comments

However when doing that Twitter won't be "neutral" regarding news sources. That might reduce interest of other media to use them ...

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0xy4y ago

Twitter already isn't neutral, considering the "trending" feed is editorialized and certain trends are suppressed and others boosted.

Twitter is a publisher. They have their fingers on the scale in both directions in multiple places.

I thought trending feed was based on metrics

Probably, yes. Also, it is very likely that any posts/trends that are not "desirable" are prevented manually from entering the trending feed as well.

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0 pointsjohannes12343214y ago0 comments

However when doing that Twitter won't be "neutral" regarding news sources. That might reduce interest of other media to use them ...

0xy4y ago

Twitter already isn't neutral, considering the "trending" feed is editorialized and certain trends are suppressed and others boosted.

Twitter is a publisher. They have their fingers on the scale in both directions in multiple places.

I thought trending feed was based on metrics

Probably, yes. Also, it is very likely that any posts/trends that are not "desirable" are prevented manually from entering the trending feed as well.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse