Need More Indicators in the Social Graph

[dabockster]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This is based on Twitter's description of The Algorithm here: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm

Social Graph Our first approach is to estimate what you would find relevant by analyzing the engagements of people you follow or those with similar interests. We traverse the graph of engagements and follows to answer the following questions:

• What Tweets did the people I follow recently engage with?
• Who likes similar Tweets to me, and what else have they recently liked?

Describe the solution you'd like Are there any other indicators or signals that can be used that don't depend on a user engaging with another Tweet? How can The Algorithm be modified to account for that?

Additional context Many people use Twitter without ever engaging (liking, retweeting, quote tweeting, etc). This is for various reasons such as privacy, social awkwardness/quietness, or just using Twitter more like an RSS reader instead of a social network. The current technique for evaluating the social graph doesn't account for this and, in a lot of cases, falls apart if a user is not actively engaging on Twitter as the post describes.