Twitter Algorithm To Finally Go Open Source, Elon Musk Tweets

Elon Musk stuck to his promise of making the Twitter algorithm open-source.

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He tweeted a few hours ago saying “Algorithm goes open source at noon Pacific Time”.

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This is around midnight in India Standard Time (IST).

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Musk hinted in February at making the Twitter code open source while replying to a user on the platform.

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On March 18, Musk tweeted that Twitter will open source “all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st”.

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He believes that providing code transparency will lead to rapid improvement in recommendation quality.

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Will making the code open source help Twitter be better or worse? We’ll have to wait to find out.

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