Twitter open-sources and publishes the post selection algorithm of the 'recommended' timeline, anyone can download it

Twitter has released the source code for the algorithm it uses to select posts to display on its For You timeline. As

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm

There are two types of Twitter timelines, 'Recommended' and 'Following', and 'Recommended' displays a mixture of posts from users who are following and those who are not following. This 'posts of users who do not follow' are not displayed completely randomly, but are selected according to Twitter's own algorithm, but since Twitter does not disclose the algorithm, 'Twitter is manipulating the number of impressions of some users.”

As suspicions swirled over Twitter's recommendation algorithm, Mr. Musk said in March 2023, ``Ensuring code transparency is very confusing at first, but the quality of recommendations is rapidly improving. The most important thing is to gain your trust, ”he declared that the algorithm code will be released on March 31, 2023.

Elon Musk announces 'Twitter code will be open sourced on March 31, 2023'-GIGAZINE

However, in February 2023, there was a case in which ``Mr. Mask declared that the source code would be released by next week, but it was not actually released''. For this reason, even after the open source declaration in March 2023, it remained unclear whether the source code would actually be released.

Under the above circumstances, Mr. Mask declared the open source of the recommended algorithm on March 30, 2023 local time.

Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHub https://t.co/9ozsyZANwa

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2023

The source code is open to the public at the link below, and anyone can download it.

GitHub - twitter/the-algorithm: Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

As mentioned above, Twitter released the source code of the recommendation algorithm, but in March 2023, it was reported that ``Twitter has a secret VIP list that increases the number of posts displayed by specific users''. It is For this reason, it has also been pointed out that ``even if the algorithm is disclosed, it is unlikely that the reason for the high number of impressions of a specific user will be revealed''.

It turns out that Twitter increased the number of tweets displayed by ``VIP users'' including President Biden and lawmakers-GIGAZINE