Elon Musk thinks Twitter’s algorithm should be public. Here’s what that could mean

Elon Musk thinks Twitter’s algorithm should be public. Here’s what that could mean

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/04/19/elon-musk-thinks-twitters-algorithm-should-be-public-heres-what-that-could-mean/

On March 24, weeks before he offered to buy Twitter, Elon Musk posted a poll on the social media platform: “Twitter algorithm should be open source,” he wrote, with options for users to vote “yes” or “no.”

Some of Twitter’s technology is already open source, which means it’s publicly available for anyone to view, rework, and use for other purposes. But what Musk was asking, essentially, was whether the rules that computers follow to determine what you see in your Twitter feed should be public, too. Over a million votes were tallied by the time the poll closed, with an overwhelming amount of “yes” votes (82.7%).