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The CEO has posted Twitter’s recommendation algorithm to GitHub, allowing any and everyone to see the internal process that Twitter uses to determine what tweets show up on your timeline.

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users' timelines. On ...

The unveiling of the algorithm comes after an unknown user posted portions of Twitter's source code to GitHub. By Kevin Hurler Published March 31, 2023 | Comments (0) 𝕏 ...

In the code released last week, Musk’s name appears, seemingly confirming reports that he had pressured engineers into creating a special system to have the algorithm prioritize his tweets.

For example, Jane Manchun Wong noted that “Twitter’s algorithm specifically labels whether the Tweet author is Elon Musk.” That may offer yet another explanation for why Musk’s tweets ...

What happens once the source code used to recommend tweets is shared and the Twitter algorithm is further illuminated remains to be seen. Either way, we look forward to finding out come March 31.

Because people train algorithms on their decisions – for example, algorithms that make recommendations on e-commerce and social media sites – algorithms learn and codify human biases.

Instead, the system generates its own code examples and then evaluates them. In the process, it hangs on to information about combinations of instructions that are effective in sorting.