Agreed, I did notice though that Twitter can adjust, and even skew search results and even trending topics any time they want to reflect any ideal they want.
We think of algorithms just being tailored towards our needs, but algorithms now are also tailored towards generating company profit, to limiting negative topics, towards censorship, and towards many other things that protect platforms first...
When bitcoin crashed for example, on Twitter there weren't a lot of people prominently screaming and cursing trending online, even though many lost their shirts, and were upset ant irate over the crash... They WERE cursing and screaming at a brick wall on Twitter though, the algorithms and moderation surgically muted and ratio'ed many of those users in order to "temper and quell" public outrage from developing against the crypto world, which Twitter is invested heavily into (rather coincidentally)....
This is the kind of modern world we live in now... We had a few years where apps were truly "social" but now, most things are carefully monitored and curated by the time we see them. This is also why you often don't directly (and consistently) see content posted from the people you follow now, on a consistently ordered time line, as well.
We think of algorithms just being tailored towards our needs, but algorithms now are also tailored towards generating company profit, to limiting negative topics, towards censorship, and towards many other things that protect platforms first...
When bitcoin crashed for example, on Twitter there weren't a lot of people prominently screaming and cursing trending online, even though many lost their shirts, and were upset ant irate over the crash... They WERE cursing and screaming at a brick wall on Twitter though, the algorithms and moderation surgically muted and ratio'ed many of those users in order to "temper and quell" public outrage from developing against the crypto world, which Twitter is invested heavily into (rather coincidentally)....
This is the kind of modern world we live in now... We had a few years where apps were truly "social" but now, most things are carefully monitored and curated by the time we see them. This is also why you often don't directly (and consistently) see content posted from the people you follow now, on a consistently ordered time line, as well.