PHphiljohn·Dec 3, 2024
It's not been updated in over a year. It was a ruse: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
In Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AItwitter
the-algorithm
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twitter / the-algorithm
the-algorithm
Source code for the X Recommendation Algorithm
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 78 | 14 | 64 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 3 | 13 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
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13 sourcesThe algorithm that has been open sourced hasn’t been updated in over a year https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commits/main/
You’re the conspiracy theorist. Conspiracies go hand in hand with your ideologies.
In Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky?The open-sourcing of the X's feed algorithm is a typical Musk's smokescreen.
First, while the code was open sourced, the configs and data that determines its behavior wasn't. Any researcher that has some knowledge of the matter will tell you this.
Second, that code was last updated in July 2023 [1]. News feed algorithms are updated regularly, especially around the time of US elections [2].
[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2983
In X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to boost right-leaning accountsSure it's open source but that doesn't mean the public repo is in any way up to date. Especially given that the repos only have a handful of commits from the few months after the repos were published and they haven't been updated in well over a year.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml
In X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to boost right-leaning accountshttps://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm - Last commit: July 13th, 2023
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml - Last commit: April 6th, 2023
Either the algorithm hasn't been updated for over a year (unlikely) or the public version is abandoned.
In X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to boost right-leaning accountsSource Code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
1 points · Open discussionYou can look at Twitter's recommendation system [here](https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm) to get an idea.
In Ask HN: How technically complex are social media algorithms?TIL: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
https://blog.x.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023...
In Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source codeX algorithm Github project hasn't been updated in 8 months:
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
So clearly they aren't running it in production.
Also they didn't open source the list of people who are being artificially boosted e.g. Elon.
In Grok> Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”?
What do you mean? There exists only one binding definition of open source
> https://opensource.org/osd
and either some product does satisfy it, or it doesn't. As far as I am aware
> https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
does satisfy the open source definition, so your sarcasm looks demagogical to me, but I am very willing to learn something new.
In This week, xAI will open source GrokYes, and it's here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
If e.g. Amazon open sources some part of its software infrastructure should they also open source the data it uses or their configuration files?
In This week, xAI will open source Grok