As Elon Musk has long promised, Twitter has finally published the source code of its recommendation algorithmsomething that should help all those users who already know how to interpret the code to better understand how the system works – which obviously are not all, especially in the absence of information on how to inspect or use the code.
In the same wayTwitter has excluded any form of data or code that could compromise the security of userssomething understandable considering that of criminals that exist in the networks trying to sabotage events or simply trying to get hold of user accounts that do not belong to them, among other problems.
In general, according to what has been seen, it is a complex algorithmbut not too much Dividing into several specific models depending on the content to recommend -such as adult content, which is handled differently-, in addition to there being metrics to assess the possibility of one Twitter user interacting with another or calculate the reputation of a user internally.
In general, It is one of the few steps forward that Twitter has made since Elon Musk arrived, so in general, something is something.
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Jordi Bercial
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