Study Shows Twitter’s Timeline Algorithm Buries External Links
https://medium.comA new research study from the Computational Journalism Lab, shows evidence of these pattern in the Twitter algorithm.
- Showed fewer external links,
- Elevated lots of “suggested” tweets (from non-followed accounts),
- Showed a greater diversity of sources,
- Slightly shifted exposure to different topics, and
- Had a slight partisan “echo chamber” effect
On average, 51% of tweets in chronological timelines contained an external link, compared to just 18% in the algorithmic timelines (orange in the figure).
