When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be “open-sourcing” Twitter’s algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

Twitter owner Elon Musk hinted on Wednesday that the company is preparing to open source the microblogging platform’s algorithm as soon as “next week”. In response to a tweet urging the Twitter chief ...

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 ...

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter’s recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

Twitter patents and other publications reveal likely aspects of how tweets become promoted in the timeline feeds of users. Some of Twitter’s timeline ranking factors are very surprising, and adjusting ...

PhD student and technologist Colin Madland recently called out the video-conferencing app, Zoom, on Twitter. Madland claimed Zoom has a “crappy face-detection algorithm” that “erases black faces” when ...

Twitter is investigating whether its automatic image cropper may be racially biased following some rudimentary tests conducted by users this weekend. Users began to notice that the algorithm behind ...

There’s no group more eager to kvetch than the Twitter faithful, and nothing to send them spiraling toward mutiny like changes to their timelines. No surprise, then, that when BuzzFeed reported over ...

Twitter acknowledges publicly that its algorithm tends to disproportionately amplify right-wing politicians — and social media experts are quick to blame human nature for engaging more with right-wing ...

People often think of dunking on Twitter as a way to downvote terrible tweets while having a laugh. But it turns out they might actually be accidentally giving them a boost instead. Slamming a bad ...