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.
