Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and programmers a peak into its workings and the ability to suggest modifications to the algorithm. The company said it uploaded the code in two repositories on code-sharing platform Github.
Elon Musk had announced that by the end of March, Twitter s source code would be made open source for more transparency. However, when some portions of Twitter s source code were leaked online before it was made open source, Twitter got it taken down.