YouTube’s recommendation engine failed on February 17, 2026, stranding hundreds of thousands of users on blank, unresponsive ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.

The most effective forms of control do not feel like control at all. They feel like a recommendation. On social media ...

Deezer launched Flow in 2014 to deliver an endless, personalized stream of songs based on a user’s listening behavior. The system analyzes activity including saved songs, followed artists and genre ...

One of the trends of 2026 in social media and streaming alike seems to be ‘giving users more control of the recommendation ...

Twitter recently open-sourced several components of their system for recommending tweets for a user's Twitter timeline. The release includes the code for several of the services and jobs that run the ...

Never hear a duff track again.

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. There are three main stages in Home Mixer, the service that builds a user's "For You" feed, ...