Elon Musk and Twitter

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https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-m...m_medium=email





https://www.theinformation.com/artic...s-after-launch

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https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1624963488635318273

[NoSavingByTheBell]

lol

[Kirkland Laing]

At 2:36 on Monday morning, James Musk sent an urgent message to Twitter engineers.
“We are debugging an issue with engagement across the platform,” wrote Musk, a cousin of the Twitter CEO, tagging “@here” in Slack to ensure that anyone online would see it. “Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem. This is high urgency. If you are willing to help out please thumbs up this post.”
When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Musk’s tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe Biden’s.
Biden’s tweet, in which he said he would be supporting his wife in rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles, generated nearly 29 million impressions. Musk, who also tweeted his support for the Eagles, generated a little more than 9.1 million impressions before deleting the tweet in apparent frustration.
In the wake of those losses — the Eagles to the Kansas City Chiefs, and Musk to the president of the United States — Twitter’s CEO flew his private jet back to the Bay Area on Sunday night to demand answers from his team.
Within a day, the consequences of that meeting would reverberate around the world, as Twitter users opened the app to find that Musk’s posts overwhelmed their ranked timeline. This was no accident, Platformer can confirm: after Musk threatened to fire his remaining engineers, they built a system designed to ensure that Musk — and Musk alone — benefits from previously unheard-of promotion of his tweets to the entire user base.
In recent weeks, Musk has been obsessed with the amount of engagement his posts are receiving. Last week, Platformer broke the news that he fired one of two remaining principal engineers at the company after the engineer told him that views on his tweets are declining in part because interest in Musk has declined in general.
His deputies told the rest of the engineering team this weekend that if the engagement issue wasn’t “fixed,” they would all lose their jobs as well.
Late Sunday night, Musk addressed his team in-person. Roughly 80 people were pulled in to work on the project, which had quickly become priority number one at the company. Employees worked through the night investigating various hypotheses about why Musk’s tweets weren’t reaching as many people as he thought they should and testing out possible solutions.

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By Monday afternoon, “the problem” had been “fixed.” Twitter deployed code to automatically “greenlight” all of Musk’s tweets, meaning his tweets will bypass Twitter’s filters designed to show people the best content possible. The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000 – a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed.
Internally, this is called a “power user multiplier,” although it only applies to Elon Musk, we’re told. The code also allows Musk’s account to bypass Twitter heuristics that would otherwise prevent a single account from flooding the core ranked feed, now known as “For You.”




https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-el...special-system





Definitely having some kind of mental event.

[Spicoli]

So Twatter has no simple edit feature?

[NoSavingByTheBell]

".... In apparent frustration....."

Yeah let's just assume stuff like that

[TIC]

elon is just playing his role but it was funny seeing him say to the world government summit that they should be careful about a world government

[Master]

Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64804007

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https://www.businessinsider.com/body...-report-2023-3

[Master]

Elon Musk has apologised after a humiliating exchange in which he appeared to mock a disabled Twitter worker.

Mr Musk had accused his employee of doing no actual work, of being “the worst” and more – after he had asked whether he was still employed by Twitter, having apparently failed to get a response any other way.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...a896059&ei=160

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Elon Musk has apologised after a humiliating exchange in which he appeared to mock a disabled Twitter worker.

Mr Musk had accused his employee of doing no actual work, of being “the worst” and more – after he had asked whether he was still employed by Twitter, having apparently failed to get a response any other way.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...a896059&ei=160

If he was a Democrat everybody would say at least he apologized and did the right thing

[Spicoli]

Why are there so many videos of people beating the ever loving shat out of each other on Twatter .

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Why are there so many videos of people beating the ever loving shat out of each other on Twatter .

Boxing has gone down hill and they are picking up the slack??

[Spicoli]

Why are there so many videos of people beating the ever loving shat out of each other on Twatter .

Boxing has gone down hill and they are picking up the slack??

But that's why we have Slap-Fight championships and all the Carny events. Think I figured it. If we can get Jake Paul to act as a substitute teacher in one of those school fights. Sure some of those kids are big but sure he could handle it. Two birds with one stone and such.

[palmerq]

This exchange is quite amusing, taibi(not the legendary man united goalie), gets baited into watching his previous comments on Joe rogain, she appears to start called Elon Musk "Alaskan musk"?... Taibi then claims it doesn't matter of he made more money after the "twitter files" because he spent more money.......

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...052163585?s=20