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X Changes Its Algorithm so that You First See the Answers of People Who Follow: "the Answer Section Was a Battlefield"

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X has modified its algorithm to give more visibility to the responses of the people you follow each other—mutuals, in the terminology of the platform—when you read the comments under a tweet. The change was announced on Sunday, July 13, Nikita Bier, product director of X, on the platform itself. Justification: the previous algorithm failed to show your friends' answers, turning the comment section into "a battlefield with people you don't recogn…
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X has modified its algorithm to give more visibility to the responses of the people you follow each other—mutuals, in the terminology of the platform—when you read the comments under a tweet. The change was announced on Sunday, July 13, Nikita Bier, product director of X, on the platform itself. Justification: the previous algorithm failed to show your friends' answers, turning the comment section into "a battlefield with people you don't recogn…

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WWWhat's new broke the news on Thursday, July 16, 2026.
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