> the concept of publishing or open sourcing "the algorithm" doesn't make sense Whatever. He paid for it. Private company. Do what it wants. > it would be

> the concept of publishing or open sourcing "the algorithm" doesn't make sense Whatever. He paid for it. Private company. Do what it wants. > it would be very difficult to make sense of the entire system No. Not buying that. Difficult isn't the same as impossible and, if only to game the system (harder,) people will figure it out. And even if it isn't 100% possible to reproduce the results based on what is released significant insights will still emerge. Further, there is some ceiling on the complexity. Twitter operates at scale and that means they can't actually burn 52kWh of power for every tweet or store TiBs of metadata for every user to do the analysis or take 30 minutes to publish. Likely it's a pretty efficient system and, therefore, limited in complexity.