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TIL Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm Source Code Is Publicly Available
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https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
I thought this would be some kind of secret, not-for-sale special sauce
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I can believe it is a one time (or few times) snapshot of part of the recommendation feed. But do you have anyway of actually validating that is the code that is running on Twitter today?
Its just like with that audit of whatsapps e2ee years ago. Even if it was secure back then, it for sure is gonna be different today.
Given the e2ee is basically the same as signals I’m fairly confident that part is secure. However you still need to trust the app as a whole because it has access to all the unencrypted data. If Meta slip up or are found out leaking what is supposedly protected it would erode trust pretty quickly and they will lose one of the most important data sources they have (the social graph of phone numbers).
No it’s not. They stopped updating it after it exposed Elon boosting his own tweets.
Isn’t this mandated by the EU now?