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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by slim on Saturday April 01, 2023 @03:37AM (#35398110) 

  Musk expressed his disappointment with engineers' work and *told them to track* how many times his tweets get recommended, one worker told the outlet.
so we know exactly when and why "author_is_elon" was added to the code
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday April 01, 2023 @06:49AM (#35399146)
That's one possible explanation. If you were implementing that change, would you do it by embedding an "elon" variable in the codebase, or would you make the specific account a parameter?
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