Dwell time (continuous) — a positive ranking signal
Predicted dwell DURATION (not just yes/no) enters the sum as its own weighted term — depth of read is scored, continuously.
Last public weight: none — this head first appeared publicly in the 2026 release; no weight value has ever been published.
2026 weight: withheld — all current weights live in an
unpublished params module. The weights story →
What actually moves it
Substance pays twice: once on the dwell head, again on predicted seconds. A 40-word post that takes 8 seconds to read cannot earn what a genuinely engrossing post earns.
Where it sits in the formula
Phoenix (a Grok-1-architecture transformer, phoenix/README.md)
predicts P(cont_dwell_time) per viewer from that viewer’s own
engagement history — not from your post’s running like-count. The prediction is
multiplied by its weight and summed with the other 21 terms, then the
author-diversity decay and
out-of-network multiplier apply.
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