Twitter Algorithm Will Go Open Source On Friday: Elon Musk

Elon Musk on Friday revealed that Twitter’s algorithm will go open source on Friday (Noon Pacific Time (PT)). The business tycoon and the CEO of Twitter made the announcement on his social media platform. 

Earlier in March, Musk had indicated of such a development and had added that the open sourced Twitter algorithm wouldn’t work well initially "but it will improve rapidly!".

Musk has said in his earlier statements that making Twitter’s source code open to the public would at first be “incredibly embarrassing”. He had also said last month that Twitter was going to make its source code open source within a week. 

"Prepare to be disappointed at first when our algorithm is made open source next week, but it will improve rapidly," Musk had tweeted then. 

Open sourcing the algorithm would essentially give most developers access to Twitter’s source code, who could then enhance, modify and distribute the code. Although the details on the degree of Twitter algorithm’s open sourcing is still unknown.

The Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX CEO had been opining on open sourcing Twitter’s algorithm much before he took the social media company private in a USD 44 million deal in late 2022.

Earlier this week, multiple media reports mentioned that parts of Twitter’s source code were leaked online via GitHub. But these were taken down after the social media platform filed a DMCA request.