How Twitter Solved One of Its Oldest Problems
The algorithm hasn’t fixed harassment, but it did remedy something else
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6 min readSep 6, 2019
It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time when one of the central dilemmas Twitter users faced was figuring out who to follow — and who not to. Because the service fed you every tweet in reverse chronological order, each person you followed meant a more crowded…