A tale of two tweets:🧵
One has 2x the likes,
has been up for 3x as long,
has 6x the engagements,
and 7x the retweets.
The other one doesn't mention the V-word.
Twitter's algorithm has shown both to ~12,000 people.
One has 2x the likes,
has been up for 3x as long,
has 6x the engagements,
and 7x the retweets.
The other one doesn't mention the V-word.
Twitter's algorithm has shown both to ~12,000 people.
Tweet #1 is makes an important point about our epistemic state in this pandemic: 
Tweet #2 is a random dunk on a celebrity hot take
I dont like to make meta-points about metrics often, but this is a clear-cut situation where *something* is favoring one tweet over the other by a wide margin. A retweet rate >1% of impressions is insane, and yet, the tweet never took off.
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