Ranting about the remaining employees needing to be "extremely hardcore" doesn't help any. And, adding insult to injury, Musk has also abandoned Twitter's open-source projects. Like almost all modern ...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday said he will make tweet recommendation codes open source by the end of March. Musk described the platform’s algorithm as "overly complex" and "not fully understood ...

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Brandi Geurkink is a senior policy fellow at Mozilla. She is the creator of YouTubeRegrets, the largest-ever crowdsourced investigation into YouTube’s recommendation engine and its impact on society.

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

"Our ‘algorithm’ is overly complex and not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things, but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found,” Musk explained. We’re developing a ...

Twitter issued a subpoena to GitHub on Friday to reveal the identity of the leaker, who goes by the screen name "FreeSpeechEnthusiast." reading time 2 minutes Elon Musk’s Twitter hasn’t been going ...

When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be “open-sourcing” Twitter’s algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

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.

Even before procuring a 9.2% stake in Twitter back in April, Musk openly posited that Twitter’s recommendation algorithm should be open source. When Twitter later accepted his offer to buy the company ...

A new tweet by Twitter owner Elon Musk suggests the company is preparing to open source its algorithm as soon as next week — unless, of course, it’s all a joke. (One never knows these days!) However, ...