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Comment by CathalMullan

Only used for metrics, apparently. [0]

  /**
   * These author ID lists are used purely for metrics collection. We track how often we are
   * serving Tweets from these authors and how often their tweets are being impressed by users.
   * This helps us validate in our A/B experimentation platform that we do not ship changes
   * that negatively impacts one group over others.
   */
[0]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

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