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convery | 1 year ago

The X algorithm is also opensource, so you can verify before commenting..

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threeseed|1 year ago

X 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.

fragmede|1 year ago

just because they open sourced it doesn't mean that's actually what they're running on it though

chrisco255|1 year ago

It's not like he needs boosting, he was one of Twitter's top followed accounts long before he bought them. He's pretty good at getting attention.

lukan|1 year ago

No idea about the current state, but the open sourcing did show, they were favoring elon:

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-releases-algorithm-show...

And personally I never used Twitter much, but I certainly did not follow Elon Musk when I did - yet I had to see lot's of his posts in my feed. Surely just coincidence.