{"id":540545,"date":"2026-07-14T07:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540545\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:13:22","slug":"x-just-tweaked-its-algorithm-to-make-it-more-friendly-less-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540545\/","title":{"rendered":"X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground"},"content":{"rendered":"

X has made a \u201ctweak\u201d to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users\u2019 \u201cmutuals\u201d \u2014 the people they follow who follow them back, head of product, Nikita Bier, said<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don\u2019t recognize.\u201d <\/p>\n

The change may not drastically revamp the site\u2019s user experience, but may make X feel a little bit more like a community rather than a torrent of disparate voices shouting into the digital abyss.<\/p>\n

Bier noted that the change would also \u201chelp clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.\u201d <\/p>\n

X has introduced a number of changes lately \u2014 many of which seem designed to make the site a bigger hub for creators. Earlier this year, the site changed how it compensates accounts<\/a> in an effort to incentivize original content rather than mere aggregation, and, earlier this month, it also introduced a video editor<\/a> designed to make it easier for users to work on the platform.<\/p>\n

This tweak follows changes that Meta\u2019s Threads has been making to its algorithm aimed at creating communities, largely as a differentiation from its main rival X. For instance, last month Threads rolled out a Your Algo feature<\/a>, which lets users privately control what they see in their feed. It also reached 500 million monthly active users<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X has made a \u201ctweak\u201d to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users\u2019 \u201cmutuals\u201d \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,53038,46,125,9536,58916],"class_list":["post-540545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-in-brief","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-threads","tag-twitter-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}