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LetMeGuessYourAlts t1_jegmjkk wrote

Reply to comment by grumpyp2 in [News] Twitter algorithm now open source by John-The-Bomb-2

Readme.md

Sorry, had to 🤓

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Internationalizard t1_jegnp8m wrote

I checked the commit history but it has only one commit. So this is a pretty straight forward place to start: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commit/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922

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lordofbitterdrinks t1_jegql5s wrote

So how do we know this is the repo used by Twitter and not some stripped down version of it

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ZestyData t1_jeh198p wrote

This quite obviously isn't the repo used by twitter.

It is a pretty large and well put together documentation epic & consolidation of multiple microservices.

Whether the content is 100% reflective of whats deployed is completely unclear. But its not "fake" that's for sure, its genuinely too many man-years of work to not be in-essence real.

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f10101 t1_jegs5yt wrote

It will take time, but I'd imagine it should be possible to derive a method of determining this by observation.

Algorithms like this will have fingerprints.

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MjrK t1_jegtjqj wrote

We don't and likely we won't know.

Unless perhaps someone internal checks and leaks important missing details that later on...

But for now, it does seem robust enough to be reflective of what they have probably been using up to some recent - but that's still just speculation

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