Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter’s recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

One of the many promises Elon Musk made after taking over Twitter was that he would open source Twitter’s algorithm, something that the social media company notoriously kept private before his tenure.

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. There are three main stages in Home Mixer, the service that builds a user's "For You" feed, ...

When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be “open-sourcing” Twitter’s algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

Brandi Geurkink is a senior policy fellow at Mozilla. She is the creator of YouTubeRegrets, the largest-ever crowdsourced investigation into YouTube’s recommendation engine and its impact on society.

Of all the grand ideas that Elon Musk has for Twitter, the one that he’s pitched most fervently is making the platform’s algorithms open source. The Tesla tycoon proposed the plan before his buyout ...

Elon Musk is at the TED 2022 conference sharing his thoughts on a number of things, including how he wants Twitter to “open source the algorithm.” The suggestion is spurred in part by Musk wanting to ...

A portion of the social media site’s source code was posted on GitHub shortly after widespread layoffs at Twitter. Image: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Twitter has taken down a GitHub listing in ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.