How TikTok Recommends Videos #ForYou
by TikTok Newsroom · TikTok
TikTok's own explanation of the For You feed: the user-interaction, video-information, and device signals it weighs, how prediction scores rank candidates, why follower count is not a direct ranking factor, and how diversity rules break up similar content.
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