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A new era of transparency for Twitter

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Friday, 31 March 2023
    
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At Twitter 2.0, we believe that we have a responsibility, as the town
square of the internet, to make our platform transparent. So today we
are taking the first step in a new era of transparency and opening
much of our source code to the global community.

On GitHub, you'll find two new repositories (main repo, ml repo)
containing the source code for many parts of Twitter, including our
recommendations algorithm, which controls the Tweets you see on the
For You timeline. We're also sharing more information on our
recommendation algorithm in this post on our Engineering Blog. For
this release, we aimed for the highest possible degree of
transparency, while excluding any code that would compromise user
safety and privacy or the ability to protect our platform from bad
actors, including undermining our efforts at combating child sexual
exploitation and manipulation. Today's release also does not include
the code that powers our ad recommendations.

We also took additional steps to ensure that user safety and privacy
would be protected, including our decision not to release training
data or model weights associated with the Twitter algorithm at this
point.

Ultimately, this is our first step to be more transparent in this
way, and we plan to continue sharing more code that does not present
a significant risk to Twitter or people on our platform.

We invite the community to submit GitHub issues and pull requests for
suggestions on improving the recommendations algorithm. We are
working on tools to manage these suggestions and sync changes to our
internal repository. Any security concerns or issues should be routed
to our official bug bounty program through HackerOne. We hope to
benefit from the collective intelligence and expertise of the global
community in helping us identify issues and suggest improvements,
ultimately leading to a better Twitter.

As the town square of the internet, we're ultimately doing this to
foster transparency and build trust with our users, customers, and
the general public. We'll continue to share updates as we make
progress in this area.

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