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…recommendation algorithm has long since been completely open sourced. It's available right here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

comment by somenameforme · 2023-05-04 · in State-controlled media gain Twitter followers after quiet platform policy change

…what they want the system to show them? For example, this suggestion I posted on the Twitter algo https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1363

comment by 13years · 2023-04-12 · in Twitter showed us its algorithm – what does it tell us?

…this suggestion to Twitter, I doubt they will use it, but it is currently ranked 4th by up votes. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1363

comment by 13years · 2023-04-11 · in Substack Notes Launched

For the folks not logged into Github (who won't be able to search): https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/138bb519975407... https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/138bb519975407... https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blo…

comment by ghostoftiber · 2023-04-10 · in Twitter allows “GovernmentRequested” classifications of “misinformation”

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Tweepcred

story by tosh · 2023-04-04 · 0 comments

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Twitter – Algorithm Manipulation via mass blocks

story by Trouble_007 · 2023-04-03 · 1 comment

…in the actual techniques being employed: Twitter repo + relevant visibility tweaking code at: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/tree/main/visibilit... Still reading through it myself, but if I'm properly distilling the gist out of…

comment by salawat · 2023-04-02 · in Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine

…entity for misinformation, PolicyInViolation.AbusePolicyUkraineCrisisMisinformation ; source: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... .

comment by thih9 · 2023-04-02 · in Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine

It is in the original repo: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/visibilit... The problem is, the branch 'main' and its contents will change over time, so GP linked to a 'permalink' of the exact commit hash instead.

comment by rjh29 · 2023-04-02 · in Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine

If someone curious here is the line on GitHub: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... UPD: here is link to main branch without specific commit. Line is still there, it's not some fake or something:…

comment by SXX · 2023-04-02 · in Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine

A feature proposal to put you in control of the algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1363

comment by 13years · 2023-04-02 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…Speaking about Ukraine, it seems to be literally a Twitter policy violation ... https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/visibilit...

comment by WinstonSmith84 · 2023-04-02 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Twitter “For you” content should be by user preference customizable

story by 13years · 2023-04-02 · 2 comments

I think they have a bug here here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... Code: ( "has_gte_10k_favs", _.getOrElse(EarlybirdFeature, None).exists(_.favCountV2.exists(_ >= 1000))), Should be: ( "has_gte_10k_favs",…

comment by d_sc · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…-> HatefulHighRecall, ... s.SpaceSafetyLabelType.UkraineCrisisTopic -> UkraineCrisisTopic, https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/ec83d01dcaebf3...

comment by amq · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

How do you infer that is what is happening? This comment would seem to contradict https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

comment by verdverm · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter scrubbing Elon, Republican, Democrat code references on GitHub

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Twitter scrubbing Elon, Republican, Democrat code references on GitHub

story by donohoe · 2023-04-01 · 16 comments

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Twitter algorithm code on GitHub

story by Anon84 · 2023-04-01 · 0 comments

Maybe; twitter/the-algorithm/issues : https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues

comment by News-Dog · 2023-04-01 · in Ask HN: Where are the April Fools fake tech launches?

Seems random. This file has both 2 and 4: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/trust_and...

comment by xdennis · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…in Rust [1] and this pull request which simplifies the algorithm to a single c file [2]. [1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues?q=is%3Aissue... [2] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/712

comment by hotpathdev · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Navi: High-Performance Machine Learning Serving Server in Rust

story by antimora · 2023-04-01 · 1 comment

Weights on different metrics. From https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/ec83d01dcaebf3... private def getLinearRankingParams: ThriftRankingParams = { ThriftRankingParams( `type` = Some(ThriftScoringFunctionType.Linear), minScore =…

comment by sudo_navendu · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…'the claim' has now suddenly turned into a fact. [0] [1] This also didn't age well at all. [0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm [1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml

comment by rvz · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31

So uh... they use BigQuery and here's the dataset https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/ann/src/m...

comment by evantahler · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Oh god... The MR's opened today are the craziest ones ever. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%... They made my morning

comment by anshumankmr · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Well that didn't age well... [0][1] [0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm [1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml

comment by rvz · 2023-04-01 · in Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31

Yup, they removed it. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commit/ec83d01dcaeb... Here's what Musk said: > But we are deleting this bs. I only learned about it now! Will be gone by tomorrow. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/164190813…

comment by tric · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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fix: Better recommendations on Twitter timeline (PR)

story by cunidev · 2023-03-31 · 0 comments

Also this: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/160

comment by adharmad · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Just removed https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commit/ec83d01dcaeb...

comment by maccam912 · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…a separate PR? Other PRs are similarly creative, like the one called “blue tick for all accounts”: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/357

comment by thih9 · 2023-03-31

`if (sourceUserId.isDefined || sourceUserId.isDefined) Some(true)` https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/timeliner...

comment by jml2 · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Aside from the spam PRs, there is actually one PR that fixes a bug: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/242/files

comment by hrpnk · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Well, sounds like this pull request doesn't get merged. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/234

comment by Calzifer · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…dSnapshot(SocialgraphUnfollowsScalaDataset, sc), FeatureName.NumUnfollows, endTs) .filter(_.age < 90) https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/src/scala...

comment by HellsMaddy · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…of that infrastructure aren’t really relevant and is a notable portion of their secret sauce. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/tree/main/src/java/...

comment by cmckn · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

I thought it was an april fools joke when I saw this: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/ci/ci.sh Like a dig at the code quality.

comment by stusmall · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…perhaps just for this extract. Sorting it now results in a different order than the commit. [1]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

comment by etc_passwd · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

there may be a hint of which elections were of interest: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

comment by pledess · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

I think the relevant part of the code is in this other repo: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm Not sure if it has what you were looking for (and maybe you already checked this repo, too!), but it's more relevant than the linked repo…

comment by mardifoufs · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…platform that we do not ship changes \* that negatively impacts one group over others. \* From: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

comment by jaywalk · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Twitter algo source with full compiler-accurate code nav

story by beyang · 2023-03-31 · 0 comments

It's reassuring to know that billion dollar tech companies write CI exactly like I do: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/ci/ci.sh Permalink: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

comment by koolba · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…"author_is_power_user", "author_is_democrat", and "author_is_republican" labels are for [1]. [1]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixe...

comment by tech234a · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/search?q=elon

story by idiomaticrust · 2023-03-31 · 0 comments

This is one: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/121 Search for Elon gives this: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/search?q=Elon&type=

comment by ano-ther · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Perhaps that's related to this line. Though perhaps this is just used for observing metrics. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

comment by Chinjut · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

…metrics[0], so Team Red people see more Team Red content and vice versa. Nothing nefarious. [0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

comment by krapp · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

I answered my own question https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... "This method reduces the page rank of users who have a low number of followers but a high number of followings."

comment by pram · 2023-03-31 · in Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm