Description of a digital payments scheme has been added to X’s algorithm, potentially paving the way for crypto integration ...

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 ...

Musk posted last night that the platform’s algorithm will soon “promote more informational/entertaining content” in order to “maximize unregretted user ...

Elon Musk has said that X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, will make its new recommendation algorithm open source within days, a move framed as a push for greater transparency as ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Elon Musk announced that X, formerly Twitter, will launch a new open-source algorithm within seven days, revealing the code behind content recommendations for organic and advertising posts.

Every social media app has its own secret sauce—the algorithm. For example, TikTok’s algo is so good at keeping users engaged in the endless scroll that it’s worth $200 billion on paper. The algorithm ...

Are we only seeing the kind of news we want to see on social media? What effects do personalized algorithms have on our perception of news quality? Do algorithms help us serendipitously encounter ...

Social media algorithms, in their commonly known form, are now 15 years old. They were born with Facebook’s introduction of ranked, personalised news feeds in 2009 and have transformed how we interact ...