Twitter will make its algorithm open-source by next week. At least that’s what Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, writes on the platform.
In a tweet, the CEO suggests that he will make the algorithm by which Twitter recommends content to its users open source next week. Of course, given that it is Elon Musk, and the man often tweets things that turn out to be jokes, we may have to take the statement with a grain of salt.
Twitter has indeed been under pressure for some time to make its ‘recommendation’ algorithm more transparent. Musk himself had demanded this several times, even before he bought the platform last year. The wider open-source community itself is also asking.
The algorithm in question is what recommends other people’s tweets. That algorithm has often received criticism because it prefers left or right votes too often. Regulators and politicians, among others, have long wanted to know when Twitter, for example, decides to suppress a tweet that may have political consequences or to allow it to receive more attention.
