Curating Quality? How Twitter’s Timeline Algorithm Treats Different Types of News

This article explores how Twitter’s algorithmic timeline influences exposure to different types of external media. We use an agent-based testing method to compare chronological timelines and algorithmic timelines for a group of Twitter agents that emulated real-world archetypal users. We first find...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jack Bandy, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-09-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211041648