<p>Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @magicstats. The account, whose description reads 'I favorite the best tweets I see in real-time' appears to be doing just that.</p><p>Though the account is protected and its activity closed down, we've been tracking it for several weeks now and have gained a bit of insight into how it works. Several of my personal tweets and some TechCrunch tweets have been favorited by the account, which appears to be working on several metrics including velocity of activity (like favs and retweets from other accounts). We investigated the account and it's followed by many members of Twitter's search and relevance team, just like Twitter's other experiments @magicrecs and @eventparrot.</p><p>The account, from what we understand, was originally dedicated to monitoring the Magicrecs experiment, but was repurposed to its new role once that was rolled into the product proper. Previously, the account's profile said it was recording data related to Magicrecs. Twitter declined to comment about the status of the account.</p><p>The account's tweets were not originally protected, and we were able to browse its favs for a while. The account often awarded a fav to a tweet very quickly after it was posted, but we never saw it fav a tweet 'first'. It always followed other favs and RTs very quickly. Judging by this, it's likely that the account is looking for tweets that are getting rapid attention in its network or on the Twitter network as a whole.</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/26/twitter-continues-tweet-recommendation-experiments-with-fav-happy-magicstats/">Keep reading...</a></p>