The source code for Twitter’s timeline recommendations is now available to everyone via GitHub. The company did this so that everyone could understand the algorithm in more detail. In addition, Twitter is working on several features that will even further enhance the platform’s transparency.
Twitter has released parts of its source code, making it available to everyone. The platform has made the source code of the timeline recommendation algorithm available on the GitHub developer platform, in line with Elon Musk’s earlier promise. In addition to the fact that the code itself can be reviewed by everyone, external programmers can look for errors and/or suggest improvements.
In a company blog post, Twitter described the process as the first step into a new era of transparency. The team explained the processes behind the recommendation engine. The goal of the open source effort is to provide complete transparency on how the platform’s systems work.
The goal of our open source endeavor is to provide full transparency to you, our users, about how our systems work. We’ve released the code powering our recommendations that you can view here (and here) to understand our algorithm in greater detail, and we are also working on several features to provide you greater transparency within our app.
Keep in mind that Twitter has only opened the part of the code that is safe to open. The platform has hidden code that may affect the safety or privacy of users. In addition, parts of the code responsible for advertising recommendations and data that would be used to train algorithms have not been published.
Twitter called for collaboration on the platform’s code. The company hopes to benefit from the collective intelligence and experience of the global community to help find problems and suggest improvements that will ultimately lead to better Twitter.
We invite the community to submit GitHub issues and pull requests for suggestions on improving the recommendation algorithm. We are working on tools to manage these suggestions and sync changes to our internal repository. Any security concerns or issues should be routed to our official bug bounty program through HackerOne. We hope to benefit from the collective intelligence and expertise of the global community in helping us identify issues and suggest improvements, ultimately leading to a better Twitter.
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