Parts Of Twitter Source Code Made Public

Twitter on Friday made parts of its source code open to global community. The social media company’s CEO Elon Musk had announced that this would happen by Noon Pacific Time on Friday.

Twitter has made the code available via two repositories on GitHub, including its recommendations algorithm, which controls the Tweets a user sees on the “For You” timeline.

“At Twitter 2.0, we believe that we have a responsibility, as the town square of the internet, to make our platform transparent. So today we are taking the first step in a new era of transparency and opening much of our source code to the global community,” Twitter mentioned in a blog post.

The social media company also shared more information on Twitter recommendation algorithm on its Engineering Blog.

Musk on Twitter said that most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. “The rest will follow.”

He mentioned that independent third parties would be able to determine, with reasonable accuracy, what will probably be shown to users.

“No doubt, many embarrassing issues will be discovered, but we will fix them fast!” he added.

The Twitter CEO in his latest tweet mentioned that the platform will be updating its recommendation algorithm based on user suggestions every 24 to 48 hours.

Meanwhile, Twitter took some steps to ensure that user safety and privacy would be protected, including its decision not to release training data or model weights associated with the Twitter algorithm.

But Twitter said it plans to continue sharing more code that does not present a significant risk to Twitter or people on its platform.