Were the owner’s tweets promoted due to Biden jealousy? ● According to reports, the company’s engineers were ordered to design the algorithm for Musk’s overexposure, after the president’s Super Bowl tweet attracted more attention ● Also: When will the company have a new CEO?
shows flight from his tweets. Twitter of Elon Musk, the new CEO and owner.Photo: Wikimedia and BigStock (respectively)
If it seemed to you that your feed bTwitter Including lately countless tweets he wrote and published Elon Muskthe owner and CEO of the company – you are probably right. However, it is probably not a problem with the algorithm or a coincidence, but rather a situation created by Musk himself, after he pushed his employees to make sure that his posts were seen more.
According to reports, the company’s engineers were instructed to design the algorithm for Musk’s overexposure, after the American president’s Super Bowl tweet Joe Biden Attracted more attention from the boss publications.
As your president, I’m not picking favorites.
But as Jill Biden’s husband, fly Eagles, fly. https://t.co/YtgaEC83Qj
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 13, 2023
It all started when a tweet of support from Musk bPhiladelphia Eagles, which was uploaded during the Super Bowl final, “lost” 9.1-29, in terms of millions of views, in the virtual confrontation against President Biden’s tweet, even though the frenetic tech entrepreneur has more followers – 129 million to Musk and “only” 37 million to Biden. Musk, apparently given the relative lack of interest in his tweet, later deleted the ad, but apparently the situation prompted the frustrated multi-billionaire to act quickly and instruct Twitter’s engineering team to “fix the problem” that very evening, by building a mechanism that would guarantee him the most visibility Significantly possible.
site Engadget reported that about 80 Twitter employees received an immediate task from Musk to investigate the possible reasons for the diminishing scope of exposure to him in the service, while examining the possibility that many people simply blocked and silenced the opinionated owner, who has been very active in the service in recent months sinceAcquired Twitter in 44 billion dollars. However, according to the report, the recruited team also looked into potential legitimate technical issues, as tweets from users whose posts are usually successful and get exposure are supposed to be automatically promoted in the system.
Due to the move, according to the various reports in the world, in one night, Twitter’s algorithm was changed to artificially increase the visibility of the tweets from Musk’s seminary on a high scale, even compared to the accepted standards of the tweeting network. The purpose of the move was to ensure that “The Boss” would be widely exposed and that its content would receive a higher position than anyone else’s. After that, according to the estimate of The Vergemore than 90 percent of Musk’s followers saw his tweets in the past three days, averaging 50 million likes and views per tweet.
Over the past few weeks, Musk has been obsessing over the low engagement of users of his posts on the platform. A week ago he reported Platformer That one of the computer engineers who dared to tell the CEO that the exposure to his tweets was decreasing because the interest in him specifically had decreased – was fired.
It is interesting to discover that following the frustration, Musk also posted a tweet with a picture of two women, quite naked, one of them, wearing a shirt with the words “Elon’s Tweets” on it, forcing the other, with the word “Twitter” on her shirt, to forcefully drink a certain liquid.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 14, 2023
When will Musk be replaced by a new CEO?
It should be noted that Musk has indeed lost ground in many ways since he purchased Twitter for the equivalent of 44 billion dinars late last October. Musk, it turns out, made a decision negative record In the ‘Guinness Book of Records’ for the person who lost the most money in history. He managed to lose almost 200 billion dollars of his huge fortune throughout 2022. The main reason for the losses, beyond the excessive purchase amount, is the shares of Tesla, who just skydived. Due to all his rise, Musk lost his place as leader in the world’s top ten and fell to second place.
Another “loss” that can be attributed to the “privilege” of the new Twitter boss is the fact that the users of the platform are not really interested in him as CEO. In fact, in December, only two months after he purchased the company and also stepped into the shoes of its CEO, Musk conducted a survey On his page on the Twitter network, in which he asked his followers whether he should leave the position of CEO, Musk promised to do what the followers decide, and they decided by a large majority in favor of his departure – 57.5% answered “yes” and 42.5% – “no” .
I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2022
It was never clear whether Musk would keep his promise, but two days later from the date of the poll, an eternity in the pace of Twitter events in the Musk era, the new boss addressed the issue again and finally clarified whether he intended to keep his promise. He stated then that the retirement and appointment of a replacement for the position may take a considerable time, if they happen at all, when he tweeted the first clarification regarding his intentions for the future: “I will resign from the position of CEO as soon as I find someone stupid enough to take the position! After that, I’ll just run the software and server teams.”
Yesterday (Wednesday), the issue returned to the headlines for a moment, after Musk said that he might be able to name his successor as CEO of Twitter by the end of 2023, but first it would be necessary to “stabilize” the social media company he owns. “I think I need to stabilize the organization And just making sure it’s in a healthy place financially and the product roadmap is clearly laid out,” Musk said at the World Government Summit event held in Dubai. “I guess towards the end of this year should be a good time to find someone else to run the company, because I think it should be in a stable position towards the end of this year,” he stated.
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