twitter/the-algorithm
Source code for the X Recommendation Algorithm
74k stars · 13.3k forks · Scala
Avoid
Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since September 2025, and only 0 of 30 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
- One person wrote 81% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
- A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Sep 3, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Last human commit
- Sep 3, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- n/a
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 31 since Mar 31, 2023
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 3
Top committers
- twitter-team: 81% of commits
- dzhao: 10% of commits
- pouriya: 6% of commits
- anqueue: 3% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2023-03-31T22:36:31Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jul 17, 2023 to Jul 18, 2023: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 26, 2023 to Jul 31, 2023: about 347 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 8, 2025 to Oct 8, 2025: about 3.8k more stars than usual, peak 1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Dec 22, 2025 to Dec 28, 2025: about 960 more stars than usual, peak 291 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 2, 2026 to Jan 4, 2026: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 13, 2026 to Jan 29, 2026: about 2.8k more stars than usual, peak 459 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 15, 2026 to May 20, 2026: about 138 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 14, 2026 to Aug 18, 2026: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 7 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: twitter/the-algorithm
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- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2