Elon Musk wants Twitter's algorithm to be public. It's not that simple

But Musk's proposal likely represents a gross oversimplification of how it would work to make that data public, according to researchers who study recommendation algorithms. As social media companies have grown, the software that drives their recommendation engines have grown so sprawling and complex that analyzing it would require access to a fire hose of data so immense that most people wouldn't even have access to a powerful enough computer to analyze it. The algorithms at Twitter, Facebook and other social networks process billions of pieces of content and use countless datapoints to determining a ranking, from the popularity of a post to who posted it.