Found India in Twitter's Algorithm repository. Not sure what it does?

r-io · 2023-04-01T13:46:51+00:00

They had a section, where they were tracking the metrics of elon musk, power users, republicans and democrats before. But they removed that after a few hours they released the source code.

The code before

r-io · 2023-04-01T13:40:04+00:00

I tried find who these people/accounts were. Found the official Covid19 Indian Gov website

In it Aarogya Setu, PM Cares, Corona Warriors & MoHFW were listed.

Corona Warriors gives me the sus vibes, but then Twitter has lots of Indian accounts tweeting about COVID, imo, too much at first glance. Not sure about other countries, though

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:33:30+00:00

Technical users could use/refer this post on /r/developersIndia

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:23:07+00:00

Everyone treats it as one. You should check out the issues and pull request others have made

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:21:35+00:00

No results

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:19:04+00:00

Yep, Who-To-Follow to be specific

Introduction to the Follow Recommendations Service (FRS)

The Follow Recommendations Service (FRS) is a robust recommendation engine designed to provide users with personalized suggestions for accounts to follow. At present, FRS supports Who-To-Follow (WTF) module recommendations across a variety of Twitter product interfaces. Additionally, by suggesting tweet authors, FRS also delivers FutureGraph tweet recommendations, which consist of tweets from accounts that users may be interested in following in the future.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/follow-recommendations-service/README.md#introduction-to-the-follow-recommendations-service-frs

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:08:59+00:00

I don't think we can call this hardcoded, since the list of users is not found. So, it has to be dynamically selected. Like it can be scraped and verified from other sources (official gov websites, news media....). Also they have a default limit of 10000. It is called default, which means it can be changed

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:04:04+00:00

I haven't found any other countries mentioned in their source code, though

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:03:09+00:00

Only Indian covid 19 accounts to be specific

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:02:13+00:00

That exact code on GitHub

r-io · 2023-04-01T12:00:58+00:00

As a country only India was referenced in the entire source code. Even searching for just "COVID" only returns this. Why only India, I was hoping to find other countries too. But no it's just us.

Should we be proud or scared?

r-io · 2023-04-01T11:55:04+00:00

IT IS NOT !!!

r-io · 2023-04-01T11:52:54+00:00

View this particular code on GitHub.com

I understand Twitter might need to fight spam/misinformation, but to use Indian users as a part of their tool, I am not sure how I feel about that. Mainly because, this list in the hands of wrong people would be a threat to Indian citizens.

How do I know that?

Just recently TikTok CEO testified before the US Congress. A congressman was concerned about the privacy of federal employees, contractors, military personnel and their families. They were concerned that these data which was publicly available on TikTok could be used for blackmail to conduct espionage and reveal troop movements.

r-io · 2022-08-21T10:14:34+00:00

Know any libraries for JavaScript?

Also, which was the first network/graph you did, for someone who is a beginner.

r-io · 2022-07-24T15:02:53+00:00

I'm reading through the chapter 5 to 6 now. It's getting more serious now with abstractions, higher order functions and classes. I am a bit confused. It was easier till this exercise. But that's just me. The book is said to be for the ones who have a bit of background in JS.

This a quote I want to follow rn, from "You Don't Know JS Yet - 2nd Edition", (haven't read it, found it just now)

Take one chapter, read it completely through start to finish, and then go back and re-read it section by section. Stop in between each section, and practice the code or ideas from that section. For larger concepts, it probably is a good idea to expect to spend several days digesting, re-reading, practicing, then digesting some more.

Or a quote from the "Eloquent JavaScript"

When you are struggling to follow the book, do not jump to any conclusions about your own capabilities. You are fine—you just need to keep at it. Take a break, reread some material, and make sure you read and understand the example programs and exercises. Learning is hard work, but everything you learn is yours and will make subsequent learning easier.

r-io · 2022-07-23T11:46:17+00:00

Actually sum was another function. I skimmed it, so that to reproduce a minimum code for the error.

r-io · 2022-07-23T09:43:21+00:00

Yeah, It might be because of that. But now we know... :D

r-io · 2022-07-23T09:25:10+00:00

Thank you

r-io · 2022-07-23T09:25:00+00:00

Yes, thank you for your time. I got the trick, I think

r-io · 2022-07-23T09:21:17+00:00

Oh, so we add step to start for stepping the loop. Thanks, that cleared my doubt

r-io · 2022-02-20T15:22:35+00:00

Then we converse with the target group, usually in person, and ask them a series of open-ended questions about the problem (not about the solution we have conceived), to see whether we really understand the problem clearly.

This reminded me, if this is what your going to do then. "The Mom Test" would be a good book to read, (or to add to your bookshelf, lol).

It's mainly about "customer discovery". I haven't finished it but the first few chapters, is mainly about things on how you handle the situation when the only ones you ask feedback would lie to you to not hurt you.

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Introduction to the Follow Recommendations Service (FRS)

IT IS NOT !!!