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Monday July 9, 2018; 10:35 AM EDT
How Twitter displays threads
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I tried an experiment to see how Twitter displays thread structures.
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I entered a
subset
of the standard
states outline
.
United States
is at the root. It has one sub,
Far West
. And from there I list the six states, and provide detail under
Nevada
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I'm wondering what the algorithm is. Because sometimes it shows nodes at multiple levels, and how they choose them isn't clear.
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