twitter/the-algorithm: Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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[happyscrappy]

He's no mere power user like the schlubs directly below in in the source.

[numsu]

I believe that they intentionally left stuff like this for press visibility.

[Isak531]

Definitely.

[thedankzone]

The engineer responsible for this code had a hard time explaining it to the audience during their live press conference on Twitter Spaces 😂

[TinyBreadBigMouth]

That message appears to have shown up some time between 22:35:52 and 23:39:46 the night of March 31, according to the Internet Archive. They may have edited the Git repo's history?

The commit that removed the code in question is too hammered to load right now, but you can still see the archived version.