After getting angry with Twitter employees for the
drop in popularity
of his account and the
low exposure of his messages
, the CEO of the social network, Elon Musk, seems to have finally gotten what he wanted:
feeds
full of his tweets.
According to dozens of reports (and complaints) from users and specialized media, since Monday the
"For you"
tab on Twitter began to include
many more tweets from the tycoon
, who last week -according to reports-
fired an engineer
for suggesting that his popularity was on the decline.
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Musk himself appeared to chime in to confirm the theory, tweeting a
meme
of a girl
forcing another - on her knees - to drink milk from a bottle
.
The image has two overlapping captions: the one above the girl holding the milk bottle reads
"Elon tweets"
and the one above the girl drinking says
"Twitter"
.
Musk's controversial tweet.
(Photo: Capture)
With the controversial image, Musk also seems to be suggesting that
all users will have to deal with their posts on the platform
, whether they like 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 adjustments to the uh… '
algorithm
, '”
the CEO posted.
Elon Musk's obsession with the reach of his tweets
The CEO of Tesla and Space X acquired the social network late last year.
(Photo: Reuters)
The changes to Musk's Twitter feed and comments are the latest developments in
Musk's obsession with how many views
he gets on his social network.
The saga began on February 1, when
he decided to make his account private
to see if it affected his metrics.
The following week, she called a meeting of Twitter advisers and engineers to ask why his account, which has nearly 130 million followers,
was receiving so few views
.
“This is ridiculous,”
Musk said, as reported by the
Platformer
newsletter .
“
I have over 100 million followers
and only get tens of thousands of impressions.”
Over the weekend, Musk dramatically announced that
two major Twitter issues
, mostly related to him, had been resolved.
He explained that the company's engineers had fixed issues that resulted in 95% of his tweets
from him "not sending at all"
.
The provocative post also comes days after a former Twitter engineer claimed
Musk fired him
because he refused to inflate the billionaire's popularity on Twitter.
"This was me, my 6.5 year tenure at Twitter comes to an end today," the former Twitter employee said.
"I'm proud of the work we did and I'm fully confident that the three or four people left behind will be able to comply with
Elon's requests to artificially inflate their view counts
(and view counts for advertisers). Not me though."
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