Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter’s recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

These days, so much of what we see online is delivered by social media algorithms. The operations of these algorithms are opaque to us; commentators forever speculate as to whether they just show us ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.

One of the many promises Elon Musk made after taking over Twitter was that he would open source Twitter’s algorithm, something that the social media company notoriously kept private before his tenure.

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. However, the code made public ...

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The way Indians discover films has changed so sharply that the old Sunday ritual of waiting for a critic’s verdict now feels almost nostalgic. Today, a movie often reaches the audience first as a ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. There are three main stages in Home Mixer, the service that builds a user's "For You" feed, ...