Thursday, 22 July 2021

Investigation: How TikTok's Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires

quote [ A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece of content. Every second you hesitate or rewatch, the app is tracking you. ]

Ironically this is a video itself (no transcript, sorry), but it highlights the interesting ways, in which slim user interaction data can be used to drive niche engagement content at irritiating levels.

Here's another text focusing on teen users collecting some interesting quotes like the term “strategic ignorance”.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 WTF]
[by Paracetamol]
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Paracetamol said @ 5:15pm GMT on 22nd July
I can't help but admire the elegance of this approach. Blobbing some timestamps and ignoring the rest. Granted, it's probably more data flowing in the background.

Paracetamol said @ 5:16pm GMT on 22nd July
I can't help but admire the elegance of this approach. Blobbing some timestamps and ignoring the rest. Granted, it's probably more data flowing in the background.

[Edit:] Also, heatmaps are harder to measure on mobile.



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Paracetamol said @ 5:15pm GMT on 22nd July
I can't help but admire the elegance of this approach. Blobbing some timestamps and ignoring the rest. Granted, it's probably more data flowing in the background.

[Edit:] Also, heatmaps are harder to measure on mobile.




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