Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday put out word that he will make public the long-secret algorithm for recommending tweets.
Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday put out word that he will make public the long-secret algorithm for recommending tweets.
The code used for recommending the posts suggested to users will become “open source” at the end of March, Musk said in a tweet of his own.
“People will discover many silly things, but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found!” Musk tweeted.
“Providing code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but it should lead to rapid improvement in recommendation quality.”
Musk contended that the recommendation algorithm used at Twitter is overly complicated and not fully understood inside the company.
