Twitter uses an algorithm to figure out your gender
@FoolishOwl wrote: I'm puzzled: the article claims that there are roughly equal numbers of men and women using Twitter, but in every example cited, there are significantly more men than women. Is that...
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@robulus wrote: Dude. You opened the thread by accusing a well respected contributor of writing an undisclosed paid article, then failed to justify that accusation quite spectacularly. If you keep...
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@PrettyBoyTim wrote: Here's one possible explanation: Say there are 10 women on twitter and 10 men. However, each man follows 6 other people and each woman follows three. There's still the same amount...
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@Tribune wrote: Organizations and corporations are not only people these days but they are also male? Brings up the interesting questions about how organizations interact with twitter vs how twitter...
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@egypturnash wrote: I have a strange feeling Twitter's gender algorithm is broken. I also have a feeling that it may be deciding bots are male. I know I have a lot of bots following me. Read full topic
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@Steve_Nordquist wrote: Maybe if they have someone geolocated at a Final Sale and typing in all caps, it's time to put that person in gender lockout for a bit? Lots of little bins. Maybe I can pop up...
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Twitter uses an algorithm to figure out your gender
@tachin1 wrote: GlennF: How does Twitter know how you shop? Maybe it doesn't really matter if they do or don't, I kind of get the feeling that it only matters that they get other people to think they...
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@Thene wrote: I only have about 70 followers, so I did a manual count. Twitter estimated ~40 men and ~30 women. The actual figures are 16 men and 35 women; the rest are a mixture of nonbinary people,...
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@rmrice2 wrote: I only have 55 followers, and I know most of them personally, so I decided to check Twitter's accuracy by doing a manual count. Twitter claims that 91% of my followers are male and 9%...
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