[alligatorplum]

Different way to tweet the tweet > After firing half of Twitters employees, the few that do remain do not fully understand the overly complex recommendation algorithm. I am hoping that we can crowdfund development work by making it open source.

As an aside, it'll be interesting to see what license he open sources it under.

[starkd]

He also said the code base was very fragile. Such that any changes tended to induce many errors. Hinted that it will probably be easier to just rebuild from scratch.

It is always more fun to just rebuild. There's probably someone on the team already setting it up.

[corbulo]

You have a very optimistic view of the people who worked at twitter.

[jpeter]

Maybe the 50000 Token Version of ChatGPT can understand it.

[_-david-_]

I don't think he is doing it strictly because the remaining team can't handle the development. He talked about open sourcing the recommendation algorithm before he even bought Twitter. Back in November 2022 he said:

>One of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open-source the algorithm.

>Any changes to people's tweets -- if they're emphasized or de-emphasized -- that action should be made apparent ... so there's there's no sort of behind-the-scenes manipulation, either algorithmically or manually.