{"id":2077721,"date":"2016-03-29T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2016\/03\/29\/one-final-thought-im-actually-a-fan\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:43:32","slug":"one-final-thought-im-actually-a-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/one-final-thought-im-actually-a-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"One final thought\u2026 I\u2019m actually a fan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;One final thought\u2026  I\u2019m actually a fan of using algorithms to prioritize items in a queue.  I just read an interesting post by a Twitter VC firm saying how great that was going to be for Twitter.  But I think we all know the obvious truth which is that this is a revenue model.  This algorithm isn\u2019t about showing users the most relevant content.  It\u2019s about showing them the most relevant content PLUS any content that has been \u201cboosted.\u201d We stopped using Facebook for this very reason. We had thousands of followers but Facebook only showed our posts to a few hundred. If we wanted all of our followers to see a post we had to pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>http:\/\/blog.theoldreader.com\/post\/141859434694\/instagram-unlevels-the-playing-field<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;One final thought\u2026 I\u2019m actually a fan of using algorithms to prioritize items in a queue. I just read an interesting post by a Twitter VC firm saying how great that was going to be for Twitter. But I think we all know the obvious truth which is that this is a revenue model. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[596,70,597,71],"views":726,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}