Internationalizard t1_jegnp8m wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:45 PM

Reply to comment by LetMeGuessYourAlts in [News] Twitter algorithm now open source by John-The-Bomb-2

I checked the commit history but it has only one commit. So this is a pretty straight forward place to start: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commit/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922

lordofbitterdrinks t1_jegql5s wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:06 PM

So how do we know this is the repo used by Twitter and not some stripped down version of it

ZestyData t1_jeh198p wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:26 PM

This quite obviously isn't the repo used by twitter.

It is a pretty large and well put together documentation epic & consolidation of multiple microservices.

Whether the content is 100% reflective of whats deployed is completely unclear. But its not "fake" that's for sure, its genuinely too many man-years of work to not be in-essence real.

f10101 t1_jegs5yt wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:18 PM

It will take time, but I'd imagine it should be possible to derive a method of determining this by observation.

Algorithms like this will have fingerprints.

MjrK t1_jegtjqj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:28 PM

We don't and likely we won't know.

Unless perhaps someone internal checks and leaks important missing details that later on...

But for now, it does seem robust enough to be reflective of what they have probably been using up to some recent - but that's still just speculation