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by mrintellectual 1517 days ago
It just seems unlikely that the algorithm would be open-sourced right after a deal for Twitter is agreed upon (but before it actually goes through). I've never seen a buyout of this scale done by an individual, but I imagine the SEC and several other parties will need to be involved.

At the minimum, I would make a private Github repo first, add all relevant commits, and then make it public once there's actually content.
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hunterb123 1517 days ago
Sure it's fast but it seems the deal is done. A practical joke by an employee seems more unlikely than an official release.

The engineer from the OSS team at Twitter linked to it and said "watch this space"

https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504

Sure I guess it could be that engineer gearing up for a joke, but I think it's more likely that it's a real release.

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