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Updates from our engineering team
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Apr 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sharing another update on the changes we’ve made to our open source repos this week and a preview of what’s next 🧵

github.com/twitter/the-al… User Signals are the most important data source for our candidate sourcing algorithms. Here is more detail about how we use the user signals.

github.com/twitter/the-al…
Apr 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sharing another update on the changes we’ve made to our open source repos this week and a preview of what’s next 🧵

github.com/twitter/the-al… User Signal Service (USS) is a centralized online platform that supplies comprehensive data on user actions and behaviors on Twitter. This service stores information on both explicit signals, such as Favorites, Retweets, and replies, and implicit signals like Tweet clicks,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Oct 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Interview pro-tip: To those interviewing for our engineering roles - checkout some of these key blog posts that can help you understand our architecture and prepare for the System Design rounds. 1/5

👇👇 Overview of our infrastructure - blog.twitter.com/engineering/en…
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Oct 18, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
You may have heard about this year's Economics Nobel Prize winners - David Card, Josh Angrist (@metrics52) & Guido Imbens.

Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems @Twitter, and we're excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us. Understanding causal relationships is core to our work on identifying growth opportunities and measuring impact.

This year's winners laid the foundation for cutting-edge techniques we use to understand where Twitter can improve and how changes affect our platform experience.
May 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In our latest blog post, we’re sharing the findings from our image cropping algorithm analysis and exploring ways to create a more equitable experience on Twitter.

blog.twitter.com/engineering/en… As part of our commitment to transparency, we’ve also published our analysis on ArXiv and are sharing our source code so you can reproduce and better our analysis.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2105.08667…
Code: github.com/twitter-resear…
Jul 2, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Inclusive language plays a critical role in fostering an environment where everyone belongs. At Twitter, the language we have been using in our code does not reflect our values as a company or represent the people we serve. We want to change that. #WordsMatter We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language, such as: