Twitter, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, was bought by Elon Musk in the past months. The platform, which has not been on the agenda since the purchase, will now attract the attention of developers.Recommendation algorithm finally published on GitHub
Elon Musk, who stated last year that Twitter’s recommendation algorithm should be public, finally published this algorithm on GitHub. After the algorithm was released, Musk stated that users and developers will find problems in the algorithm, and the Twitter team will quickly fix these problems. The shared algorithm only includes the posts that are shown in the “For You” tab of Twitter. The sorting algorithm used by the platform for functions such as search has not yet been made public.
Elon Musk’s posts are automatically featured
After Twitter made the algorithm public, many users discovered interesting details in the code. According to information from Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter asks for each shared post, “Is this shared by Elon Musk?” It applies a filter like this and puts Musk’s posts forward for most people. In addition, Wong states that the platform categorizes users as either Republican or Democrat.Musk, who started a discussion on the subject on the platform; argued that users should not be categorized as either Republican or Democrat. A Twitter engineer stated that these categories are only used to collect data. As for his own posts to come to the fore, Musk stated that this situation is strange and he has just learned about this situation. You can find Twitter’s algorithm here.
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