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After throwing a hissy match final week as a result of his tweets weren’t getting sufficient views, Twitter CEO Elon Musk appears to have lastly gotten what he needed: Musk-filled feeds.
On Monday, I observed that my ‘For You’ feed on Twitter had surprisingly extra Musk tweets than common. I didn’t make a lot of the incidence at first and reasoned Musk was in all probability tweeting up a storm whereas pretending to work once more, till I noticed that different customers had been getting Musk-bombed, too. Provided that the billionaire fired an engineer who advised him individuals didn’t appear to be all for him anymore, a lightbulb went off in my head: Ah, this was on goal.
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Musk himself appeared to chime in to verify my idea, tweeting out a meme of a woman forcing one other to drink milk. He labeled the lady holding the milk bottle “Elon’s tweets” and the lady being compelled to drink the milk “Twitter.”
Though he didn’t acknowledge the Musk-filled feeds, the billionaire tweeted at 3 a.m. ET that his firm was tinkering with the algorithm.
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“Please keep tuned whereas we make changes to the uh .… ‘algorithm,’” he mentioned.
The modifications to Twitter’s feed and Musk’s feedback are the most recent developments in Musk’s obsession over the variety of views he will get on his social community. The saga started on Feb. 1, when the CEO determined to make his account non-public to see whether or not that affected his views. The next week, he known as a gathering of Twitter’s advisors and engineers to ask why his account, which has almost 130 million followers, was getting so little views.
“That is ridiculous,” Musk mentioned, as reported by the Platformer publication. “I’ve greater than 100 million followers, and I’m solely getting tens of hundreds of impressions.”
Over the weekend, Musk dramatically introduced that two vital Twitter issues had been solved, which had been primarily associated to him. He defined that the corporate’s engineers had mounted points that resulted in 95% of his tweets “not getting delivered in any respect.”
How precisely that helps anybody else on Twitter in addition to Musk and the right-wrong accounts complaining about their lack of views is unclear, however one factor’s sure: It’s extremely unlikely that Musk goes to throw a tantrum over his tweets abruptly flooding everybody’s feeds.