purplETHought by Legendary

purplETHought by Legendary

purplETHought #1: Twitter Algorithm

The implications of taking the Twitter algorithm open-source.

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Legendary
Apr 07, 2023
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On March 31st, Twitter released the code showing how the algorithm works and ranks the over 150 billion tweets sent to people’s devices daily. In addition, the company shared both the GitHub and a blog post detailing their decision.

Twitter stated that “the goal of our open source endeavor is to provide full transparency to you, our users, about how our …

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