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The tweet announcing it was captioned "watch this space":

https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504

Which seems like a promise they intend to actually open source something there.

Who is that guy even ? Is he even associated with twitter ? Calling it an announcement seems like a stretch

His website claims he’s open source lead at Twitter: https://willnorris.com/

For anyone wanting a non-empty version, check out my article on how Twitter's algorithmic feed works from last week https://transitivebullsh.it/oss-twitter-algorithm-part-1

How you _think_ it works from 1000 miles above.

It wouldn't surprise me. It wouldn't be the first joke about him and his buyout.

https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1511456430024364037

It was created 20 minutes ago. Maybe a WIP?

For a company of Twitter's scale and resources, any public repos are supposed to go through legal to clear (this is how things work at every FAANG I've worked at).

So if it was a WIP, it'd be a private repo until it's ready to release publicly.

Well, all FAANG companies are public.