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Ask HN: How technically complex are social media algorithms?

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11 months ago

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I'm curious about the technical complexity of social media algorithms, specifically the ones driving the feeds on TikTok and Instagram. How complex are these systems? Are they a standard recommendation system and the complexity comes from the large amount of signals being used? Is it a fancy neural network?

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farhanhubble

11 months ago

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You can look at Twitter's recommendation system [here](https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm) to get an idea.