Elon Musk overhauling Twitter, making algorithm open to public view
“Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today,” Mr. Musk said Friday afternoon on Twitter. “The rest will follow.”
Twitter subsequently experimented with various ways to surface content to its users under Mr. Musk’s leadership and itThe “For You” tab shows content recommended by Twitter for a user while the “Following” tab intends to present content from people a user follows in chronological order.Earlier this week, he said the “For You” recommendations would beto Twitter’s verified users starting April 15.
Some source code for Twitter is already publicly available. Twitter has a Community Notes tool that allows contributors to generate tags applied to tweets with further context, and Twitter made source code for the notes’ algorithm available on GitHub. “For this release, we aimed for the highest possible degree of transparency, while excluding any code that would compromise user safety and privacy or the ability to protect our platform from bad actors, including undermining our efforts at combating child sexual exploitation and manipulation,” Twitter said on its blog. “Today’s release also does not include the code that powers our ad recommendations.
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