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Musk had Twitter engineers boost his tweets after Biden got more views

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25 pointsmfiguiere9 comments

Who knows if any of this is true but it does sound like his leadership style at Twitter is akin to that of an emperor. As an engineer this does not sound like an enjoyable work environment at all.

I think of the poor users who have a new reason to quit. It’s like Twitter’s business model is to extort billions from a single whale.

I wonder if Musk is going to be shocked at users leaving and have the engineers stop people from deleting their accounts.

Serious question: if they haven't left yet, will they leave over this?

I'm sure it will push a few people over the line, but in the end Musk's outlandish behavior is a sideshow. Celebrities and influencers still tweet; people still seem to want to read that.

I don't know why people ever joined, so I have no idea what will make Twitter users leave.

This would be like Rupert Murdoch purchasing Fox and then putting himself as a bug in the corner of every show a la MST3K.

So like Conrad Black publishing his own politically charged op-eds in his newspapers?

Sure, if the only thing you wanted to read was the editorial section :-)

That's fair, insisting on being ranked highest in the algo is more like being on every page and not just taking to the editorial section whenever the urge occurs.

Also speaking of Mr. Murdoch, there's a photo floating around of him hanging out with Musk at the super bowl. Wonderful company they all keep isn't it?

To be upset that you're getting fewer views than the President of the United States...that just speaks volumes about how insecure he is.

Interesting take - it appears they found a bug that de-amplified accounts with high “blocked” numbers — not ratios, absolute numbers.

This explains a lot of loss of visibility of controversial accounts, such as Elon’s; and a lot of “conservative” accounts with big “block” campaigns agains them.

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