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You dont want to open source rhe code because it makes Twitter vulnerable? How lame. Security through obscurity is a futile endeavor, and open sourcing the algo doesn't mean we need the whole codebase. You're being a corporate suck-up. And it's duct tape; not ducktape, you lame duck.

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@Not I'm sorry life has been so hard on you, hopefully everything you're going through will pass, and you'll find a light at the end of the tunnel to guide you in the process of getting your head out of your ass, you inconsiderate butthurt dimwit. Get well xoxo

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Better ignore "insults" if they hurt you, instead of fully focusing on them.

His point is valid and his "insults" does not invalid it.

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I replied because of the last part of their message (the "lame" part, where fabricated a fact and presented it as the truthâ„¢) . You assumed I don't agree with his points, which is correct. I don't think open-sourcing the ranking algorithm would do anything but hurt the company, and I'm quite sure it's never been on the table, and it won't be anytime soon. I think that anyone who says otherwise either doesn't have enough information, doesn't have the ability to process it, or doesn't want to.

They said the author is a corporate suck-up after reading this article that points out how not revealing how things work internally is paramount in some situations (ask SpaceX/Tesla to open-source some of their secret sauce, it would do the world way more good that Twitter's echo ranking algorithm). There's nothing that would indicate corporate suck-up-ness in this article, so that was uncalled for, while there was evidence beyond reasonable doubt (the lame comment) that the GP is an idiot, so I called it.

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May 30, 2022·edited May 30, 2022

It was originally duck tape. You don't seem like a very nice person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

Edit: The author specifically addressed, quite well, the issue of whole codebase. Likely 'the algo' is distributed across many repos. Not so simple just to publish something which is a combination of logic from all across a huge system of multiple parts. And should a corp publish their entire repo? I don't think so.

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