Want to know how “”Clash of the Titans”” will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter. So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social ...

Elon Musk told his followers to "fix" their Twitter feed to show "Latest tweets." Twitter founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey said the setting was simply a way of showing trending news. Musk has said he ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last month, Twitter announced plans to roll out a new kind of feed next year that will filter what users see. The change ...

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Want to game the system that Twitter’s trending algorithm uses to pick topics? Then shoot for bursts of activity rather than a gradual increase, Twitter spokesman Matt Graves tells NPR. Twitter's ...

Are we only seeing the kind of news we want to see on social media? What effects do personalized algorithms have on our perception of news quality? Do algorithms help us serendipitously encounter ...

Elon Musk has finally made the X/Twitter algorithm public on Github for devs to feast. Earlier the world’s richest billionaire had committed to making the X algo periodically public but since the last ...

Twitter has revamped its timelines to allow the "best" tweets to rise to the top, despite warnings of a revolt from members loyal to the real-time flow of the messaging platform. The tweaked format ...

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Anonymous tweeters may have just become a little less anonymous. Researchers have put together an algorithm that can predict the gender of a tweeter based solely on the 140 characters they choose to ...

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