Elon Musk appears to offer $1 million bounty to 'convict' those responsible for Twitter 'botnets'
Elon Musk appeared to offer a $1 million bounty if the source of "botnets" purportedly targeting reputation scores could be identified after Twitter made some of its algorithms open-source Friday.
Twitter released coding information that showed how it recommended tweets to followers on the For You feed.
In a Twitter thread, Steven Tey shared his analysis of the information, concluding that Twitter Blue are boosted in the algorithm. He added that the algorithm was prone to creating "negative feedback loops" that would reduce a user's "reputation score." Getting blocked, muted, and receiving reports of abuse or spam affect a user's score. Quote-tweeting the thread, user el gato malo alleged this was how "botnets" were able to hurt the reach of certain accounts.
