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Elon Musk has finally made the X/Twitter algorithm public on Github for devs to feast. Earlier the world’s richest billionaire had committed to making the X algo periodically public but since the last ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

Want to know how “”Clash of the Titans”” will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter. So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social ...

Elon Musk told his followers to "fix" their Twitter feed to show "Latest tweets." Twitter founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey said the setting was simply a way of showing trending news. Musk has said he ...

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Twitter and Threads aren’t meeting this news-driven moment—and Bluesky is showing the power of letting humans decide what they want to see. Today, if you find your Twitter default feed to be filled ...

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Want to game the system that Twitter’s trending algorithm uses to pick topics? Then shoot for bursts of activity rather than a gradual increase, Twitter spokesman Matt Graves tells NPR. Twitter's ...