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Are you not aware that "random people's replies" are from people who have paid Twitter money specifically for the privilege of being seen first?

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There are also tiers, so those who paid the most are the first:

>X Premium has three tiers: Basic, Premium, and Premium+, with more features available in each higher tier.

>Basic: ... reply prioritization

>Premium: ... larger reply prioritization

>Premium+: ... largest reply prioritization

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-premium

Of course, I'm just thinking of enhancing the user experience. Twitter Blue could just increase the authority score a bit or something, with the main focus still on semantic mapping.

Well, yes, but then the sort of weirdo who pays for attention might be less inclined to pay, so if you're committed to this incredibly stupid design decision (the pay-for-attention model, that is) in the first place, you kind of have to go all the way with it.

What you're talking about is kinda how replies on Twitter _used_ to work, back when it was run by vaguely sensible people (at least in the official app and site; third party apps would often display replies in linear time order instead).

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