After getting angry at Twitter employees over the decline in popularity of your account and low visibility of your messagesthe CEO of the social network, Elon Musk, seems to have finally got what he wanted: feeds full of his tweets.
According to dozens of reports (and complaints) from users and specialized media, starting this Monday the tab “For you” of Twitter has started to include many more tweets from the mogulthat last week -according to reports- fired an engineer for suggesting that his popularity was on the wane.
Shortly after midnight Tuesday, Musk himself appeared to confirm the theory, tweeting to memes of a girl who forces another -kneeling- to drink milk from a bottle. The picture has two superimposed captions: the one above says the girl holding the milk bottle “elon tweets” and what he takes from, “twitter”.
With the controversial image, Musk seems to be hinting as well all users will have to deal with their posts on the platformwhether he likes it or not.
A few hours later, around 3 in the morning, Musk admitted that the social network is playing with the algorithm. “Stay tuned as we make changes to the uh…”algorithm’“published the CEO.
Elon Musk’s obsession with the reach of his tweets
The changes to Musk’s Twitter feed and comments are the latest developments in the Musk’s obsession with the number of views enter your social network.
The saga began on February 1, when decided to make his account private to see if that affected their metrics. The following week, she called a meeting of Twitter consultants and engineers to ask why her account, which has nearly 130 million followers, I received so few visits.
“This is ridiculous”, Musk said, as reported by the newsletter Platform. “I have more than 100 million followers and I just get tens of thousands of impressions.”
Over the weekend, Musk dramatically announced this two major Twitter issues had been fixed, which were mainly related to him. He explained that the company’s engineers fixed the issues that led to 95% of his tweets “they weren’t sent at all”.
The provocative post also comes days after a former Twitter engineer said so Musk fired him because he refused to inflate the billionaire’s popularity on Twitter.
“This was me, my 6.5 year tenure on Twitter ends today,” said the former Twitter employee. “I am proud of the work we have done and I am fully confident that the remaining three or four people will be able to meet the requirements. Elon asks to artificially increase the number of his views (and view count for advertisers). Not me though.”
Source: Clarin
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