Great questions. These are exactly the types of questions I'm trying to get more people to think about — and the reason I wrote the article above. It's not we

Great questions. These are exactly the types of questions I'm trying to get more people to think about — and the reason I wrote the article above. It's not well-defined, but the goal imho should be to allow more transparency and optionality around Twitter's main feed UX. Open sourcing twitter's algorithmic feed would be a monumental task that's honestly unlikely to ever come to fruition, Elon or no Elon. BUT twitter could certainly do more to move in that direction. > What are the actual requirements that you're looking to satisfy by doing this? If it improves transparency around how twitter's algorithm works.. if it introduces more optionality into twitter's main UX (and isn't just a chrome extension, for instance), if it's coming from twitter itself and not a third-party.. if the effects of different factors on relevancy signals are made more transparent (like being able to play around with a simulated tweet under different conditions and seeing the resulting relevancy scores for a set of example users).. there's just so much that twitter could do here to improve transparency around how their feed works. And I'm generally in favor of anything what will move the status quo. In Elon's words “Civilizational risk is decreased the more we can increase the trust in Twitter as a public platform.”