Twitter released some of the source code related to its content recommendation algorithm online on Jan. 31, Reuters reported.

Twitter has reportedly released some of its source code, which is used to recommend specific Tweets on users' timelines, on GitHub, an open source (open software) community.

Source code is the design of computer software, which is converted into machine language to create executable software.

Open sourcing the source code that controls content recommendations makes it transparent how the algorithm works and allows the public to suggest modifications to the algorithm.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the company will release all of the remaining source code related to Twitter's content recommendation feature in the coming weeks.

However, Reuters noted that the source code posted on GitHub did not include code related to Twitter's ad recommendation feature.

Musk has previously pledged to release algorithms.

When he acquired Twitter in April last year, Musk promised to make some of the software code available to the public, saying the algorithms it uses should be transparent.

The move follows Musk's directive that "code transparency" can contribute to increased trust among users and faster improvements in services, Reuters reported.

It is also analyzed as a response to the authorities' move to increase the level of review of how social media (SNS) algorithms work.

Musk also opened a chat space on Twitter Spaces, a Twitter voice community feature, to take questions from users about how Twitter code works.

One user pointed out that Twitter seems to be dividing users into Democrats or Republicans, and one Twitter employee in the conversation reportedly replied that Twitter has been exhibiting these traits for a long time and plans to eliminate them in the future.

Twitter, meanwhile, has previously had some of its source code exposed on GitHub for months, but has only recently become aware of this.

Twitter recently filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California asking GitHub to provide information about the identity of the leaker.

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