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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.
Twitter has said that parts of its internal source code have been uploaded to GitHub ahead of Elon Musk's plan to make it open-source.
Some parts of Twitter's source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online. Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted.
The leak creates more challenges for billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October for $44 billion
A part of Twitter's source code has been reportedly leaked online - several publications and agencies reported citing a court filing. This could pose as the latest challenge for Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who acquired the social media platform for a whopping $33 billion in 2022.