An open sourced Twitter algorithm by “next week”
When Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, he promised to make the company’s algorithm public. On February 21, 2023, he said it would happen “next week.” Guess what happened over the next week? Not that.
On March 31, 2023, Twitter actually published its recommendation algorithm. That revealed a number of embarrassing details about how the company serves up Tweets, like the mechanism it uses to give Elon’s tweets special treatment.
