Thread by @iScienceLuvr

Yes, this is definitely about television! 🤣🤣🤣

I find it very interesting that Twitter recommends relevant tweets to me, but the topic suggestion is completely off. It looks to me like the recommendation and topic selection algorithm are completely different.

While the tweet recommendation algo is more sophisticated that likely takes into consideration the semantic content of the tweet, the topic selection algo seems to be a simple algorithm that heavily weighs the presence of keywords.

As another example, this tweet originally came up on my feed under the topic of "Interior design"

https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1411764014963728384

Hopefully Twitter improves their topic selection algorithm in the future!😄