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Tweet Selection

Explore various tweet selection methods used in Twitter feed systems to fetch relevant content. Understand how new, unseen, and popular tweets are dynamically selected to enhance user engagement, including handling edge cases and interest-based recommendations.

Tweet selection schemes

Let’s see the various schemes Tweet selection component uses to fetch Tweets for a user’s twitter feed.

New Tweets

Consider the following scenario to see how Tweet selection occurs.

User A logs in to Twitter at 99 am to view their Twitter feed. Now, the Tweet selection component has to fetch Tweets for display. It fetches the five-hundred newly generated Tweets by A’s network since the last login at 33 ...