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What’s What with Open Source Twitter

It took him a while, but https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk, owner and CEO of https://twitter.com/?lang=en, finally kept his promise to open source some of Twitter’s code. Without his developers, I didn’t think https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/10/elon_musks_twitter_opensource_foulup/ But, on March 31, https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm, determining which tweets appear on your timeline. With the bombastic title https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm, the recommendation code is on https://github.com/ Twitter’s also open sourced some of the https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml.

The https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm is made up of three main stages: Fetch the best Tweets from different recommendation sources in a process called candidate sourcing.

The advantages of open source development outweigh its dangers, or we’ve all been coding things wrong for the last 20 years or so.