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by sudo_navendu 1182 days ago
Weights on different metrics. From https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/ec83d01dcaebf3...

private def getLinearRankingParams: ThriftRankingParams = { ThriftRankingParams( `type` = Some(ThriftScoringFunctionType.Linear), minScore = -1.0e100, retweetCountParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 20.0)), replyCountParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 1.0)), reputationParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 0.2)), luceneScoreParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 2.0)), textScoreParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 0.18)), urlParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 2.0)), isReplyParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 1.0)), favCountParams = Some(ThriftLinearFeatureRankingParams(weight = 30.0)), langEnglishUIBoost = 0.5, langEnglishTweetBoost = 0.2, langDefaultBoost = 0.02, unknownLanguageBoost = 0.05, offensiveBoost = 0.1, inTrustedCircleBoost = 3.0, multipleHashtagsOrTrendsBoost = 0.6, inDirectFollowBoost = 4.0, tweetHasTrendBoost = 1.1, selfTweetBoost = 2.0, tweetHasImageUrlBoost = 2.0, tweetHasVideoUrlBoost = 2.0, useUserLanguageInfo = true, ageDecayParams = Some(ThriftAgeDecayRankingParams(slope = 0.005, base = 1.0)) ) }