As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users' timelines. On ...

Twitter recommendation algorithm source code has been posted to GitHub Elon Musk has shared the algorithm that Twitter uses to recommend tweets.

The unveiling of the algorithm comes after an unknown user posted portions of Twitter's source code to GitHub.

Twitter announced on Friday that it's open-sourcing the code behind the recommendation algorithm the platform uses to select the contents of the users' For You timeline.

Ghasemian also notes that "recommendation algorithms have been criticized for continuing to recommend problematic content to previously interested users long after they have lost interest in it ...