Will Norris who works on OSS at Twitter posted this[0]: "watch this space https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm"
[0]: https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504
twitter/the-algorithm
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#22Makes me wonder how Twitter employees internally are handling the news. If they are celebrating or commiserating?
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#23Does it remind anyone of Po and the Dragon scroll from Kung Fu Panda?
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#24if ($has_blue_checkmark) show_post_to($everyone);
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#25Perhaps Twitter will be the new Mozilla if it decides to open-source 'everything' then.
Maybe that is where it is going.
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#26Kind of unrealistic but I hope Twitter now open-sources not only the algorithm but also the Rails monolith itself. Would be kind of interesting to see how everything is done
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#27Many people have commented that it is empty. However what they do not realize is that there has never actually been an algorithm and that is why it is empty.
There's not an algorithm to order timelines?
If it’s a list of tweets ordered based on a kajillion ML data points that varies per user is it still an algorithm?
And does every user have their own algorithm?
And could it be made readable to a human?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did it get taken down already? I think open-sourcing the algo would materially change the value of the deal.
Twitters main value is its user base (especially including most journalists, "stars", politicans, companies,...) I would say the algo itself is worthless, but my estimate would be nowhere near even 1B$.
If open-sourcing the algo allows bots to game the system then it has value to the bot wranglers; if the feed becomes full of garbage that gradually destroys Twitter's value.
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#30This seems to be a practical joke by a Twitter engineer as opposed to an actual release.
Or a commit is being prepared? It's only 20 minutes old.