Twitter’s recommendation algorithm is now on GitHub Elon Musk said he expects people to find "a lot of mistakes" in the code. Karissa Bell Senior Editor Follow Fri, March 31, 2023 at 1:05 PM PDT ...

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.

GitHub has taken down a repository by a user named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” that contained Twitter’s proprietary source code after the social network filed a DCMA takedown request.

CEO Elon Musk has been promising the move for a while — on March 24th, 2022, before he owned the site, he polled his followers about whether Twitter’s algorithm should be open source, and ...