A thread of lightly interesting stuff (because understanding the impacts of likes and retweets isn't nothing).
You may have heard about this year's Economics Nobel Prize winners – David Card, Josh Angrist (@metrics52) & Guido Imbens.
Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems @Twitter, and we're excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021
We use Double Machine Learning to understand the causal impact of engagement actions. Our work leverages research by Chernozhukov et al. (2018), and is influenced by Imbens & Rubin (2015). https://t.co/BicSMhnsoghttps://t.co/Sjphq081Xq
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021