Arxiv sanity has become better at predicting what I care about as I’ve given it more data. I don’t think this is the whole story because the absolute number of papers I see on Twitter has gone down.
I did create my Twitter account primarily for academic stuff, but it’s possible that over time Twitter has learned to show me non-academic stuff that is more attention-grabbing or controversial, despite me trying not to click on those sorts of things.
Academics are promoting their papers less on Twitter.
Not sure. A few hypotheses:
Arxiv sanity has become better at predicting what I care about as I’ve given it more data. I don’t think this is the whole story because the absolute number of papers I see on Twitter has gone down.
I did create my Twitter account primarily for academic stuff, but it’s possible that over time Twitter has learned to show me non-academic stuff that is more attention-grabbing or controversial, despite me trying not to click on those sorts of things.
Academics are promoting their papers less on Twitter.