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Twitter recommendation algorithm source code has been posted to GitHub Elon Musk has shared the algorithm that Twitter uses to recommend tweets.
The unveiling of the algorithm comes after an unknown user posted portions of Twitter's source code to GitHub.
Twitter made its recommendation algorithm open source on Friday. Here is a look at how tweets appear on a user’s “For You” feed.
As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users' timelines. On ...
In a newly published preprint study, researchers propose a "fairer" product recommendation algorithm that's ostensibly less biased against certain shoppers.
Netflix’s content recommendation algorithm is superior to every other streaming service, and it’s not close. To be frank, I almost never look at recommended content rows. My eyes usually flit right ...
The issues and pitfalls presented by social algorithms are well-known and have been well-documented. So, really, what are we going to do about it?
Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...
For the subset of users who understand the impact of the algorithms enough to try to appease them, the answer, then, is yes—that makes one boring; but the “that” is not the users’ predictability but ...
But what the algorithms recommend is not always fair. In a new study we showed a widely used recommendation algorithm is more likely to pick music by male than female artists.