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Spicy chicken sandwich-gorithm

So Twitter open-sourced its algorithm today, and the community jumped into action to help Elon improve this platform he accidentally bought as a joke. Here are some of my favourite pull requests made to the repo today.

This helpful fix nukes the Twitter Blue amplification on the For You tab:

There were quite a few along the same lines as “Small fix to meaningfully improve the mental health of Twitter users” that just deletes the entire algorithm:

I feel like this bit of code may have been a more recent addition:

(nothing a little force-push can’t tidy up)

This one’s just a Spicy Chicken Sandwich:

Lotta LGTMs on that one.

This person raises an important question

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