CATHY O’NEIL: Open-source Twitter algorithms are a terrible idea

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Elon Musk’s suggestion that he might share the platform’s code could turn the content to junk

Democratising Twitter could mean even more junk and trolling. Picture: BLOOMBERG

To be clear, Twitter’s design is what mostly determines its user experience and culture: the broad selection of tweets you are most likely to see and the ones you’re unlikely to see . In any case, the vast majority of Twitter users will not be able to make use of the open-source code, because code is typically hard to read even by those who have written it.

Even so, open-source code might spell out the types of things that cause a specific tweet to get promoted. It may turn out, for example, that the number of followers you have matters, or that the number of retweets in the past four minutes matters, or that what matters is the product of those two things. But even knowing that information, it would take a lot of work, and possibly a lot of money, to game the system for the sake of making a tweet go viral.

 

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