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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-09-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211041648 |