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slim on April 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

  Musk expressed his disappointment with engineers' work and *told them to track* how many times his tweets get recommended, one worker told the outlet.

so we know exactly when and why "author_is_elon" was added to the code

oneeyedpigeon on April 1, 2023 [–]

That's one possible explanation. If you were implementing that change, would you do it by embedding an "elon" variable in the codebase, or would you make the specific account a parameter?

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