X Algorithm Repo Sits at One Commit 4 Months After Open-Source Promise
Four months after Elon Musk pledged to open-source Xs recommendation algorithm and refresh it every four weeks, the official xai-org repository still shows one commit. Crypto users are calling the release theater, not transparency. The promise dates to January 10, when Musk said the code would publish within seven days and refresh monthly with detailed developer notes. The repository went live on January 17 and has not been touched since. Promised Monthly Updates Never Arrived The xai-org/x-algorithm repository contains four components, written 62.9% in Rust and 37.1% in Python. None has received a follow-up commit. The developer notes Musk promised alongside each refresh have not appeared either. A similar 2023 release from the old twitter/the-algorithm repo received the same complaints before going dormant. The latest ???? algorithm has been published to GitHub — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2026 That silence lands during the same months crypto users have logged repeated complaints about suppressed reach on the platform. “The algorithm is the worst it‘s ever been. All I see is politics, rage bait, engagement bait and like 10% crypto content. Communities are dying and this app is becoming Instagram 2.0 when infact it’s best feature was the fact communities formed around topics and you stayed largely within that