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Elon Musk reportedly had his own tweets prioritized out of jealousy
- the_generalist 4y agoI appreciate him being a constant source of memes and drama, though I'd rather he doesn't remove what little usefulness Twitter still holds.
- fatnoah 4y agoI'm looking forward to the Netflix limited series about him, though that assumes I don't cancel Netflix and that he doesn't buy it.
- MildlySerious 4y agoHe's not exactly being coy about it[1] [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625368108461613057?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625368108461613057?s=20
- LiquidSky 4y agoIt's always been apparent, but the Dave Chappelle debacle was the final proof that he genuinely believes himself to be a universally beloved figure hailed as a genius comedian except for a handful of woke saboteurs. He really does seem baffled why "jokes" like this tweet don't go over.
- MildlySerious 4y agoI hadn't checked his feed in a good while. Scrolling to find the tweet above, and going a little further, it really is just a single stream of memes now. Bad ones, at that. Yet he's somehow shocked enough his views are down to warrant firing the guy who filled him in on it, despite the existence of the public view count that he introduced.
- rchaud 4y agoHe's been rich a long time. People around him may encourage his 'messageboard moderator from 2002' brand of humour, but it falls horribly flat if he takes one step outside his echo chamber.
- klyrs 4y agoIt took a little over a minute for that page to load the tweet! Granted, that's only twice what it used to take, but I cannot understand how a "microblogging" platform has that bad of performance. Maybe he should fire more people, that'll surely fix the problem.
- kickaha 4y agoWhat a pitiable man.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoThis story lacks the back story. Musk was prompted to investigate engagement issues about 3 weeks ago by a bunch of people doing the “take your account private” test and nearly all of them reporting increased engagement when private. Musk did it for a day, I personally did not see his result. About 5 days ago he posted about the team fixing two major engagement bugs. Point is he has had them focused on engagement for at least a couple of weeks.
- thal3s 4y agoAnd what does that have to do with the new changes he pushed to have his tweets be in every single users' timelines?
- LiquidSky 4y agoNothing, it's Musk drones rushing to defend their god. The parent leaves out that Musk fired an engineer in a meeting where he demanded to know why his tweets weren't getting enough engagement.
- corbulo 4y agoWhy do you guys get so vitriolic? The parent is attempting to logically explain. What is the need for making intense moral characterizations? Don't you see the dichotomy here?
- rsynnott 4y agoGive it a few months, and it'll just be a vast, empty, echoing Twitter office containing him and Jason Calacanis. A fitting punishment.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoWell, the author of the article presumes to know his intent in asking for that change. Could be narcissism, or it could be an engineer running a test. The truth is the author doesn't know what his intent was.
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- keithalewis 4y agoPaging @dang. @dang to the HN comment guidelines please.
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- AlchemistCamp 4y agoThe source this article mentions doing the "reporting" has been single-mindedly focused on attacking Elon Musk's reputation ever since he took over Twitter and made it clear he was investigating the prior management's moderation decisions. They've been hunting down any and every disgruntled ex-employee they can looking for dirt and they have no appetite for any positive stories. I'd take any of their claims with a huge grain of salt.
- ceejayoz 4y agoWhile we're mentioning past claims, you once claimed donating to @elonjet would make people complicit in kidnapping/murder (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33996612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33996612).
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoThat's not an accurate representation of what I said and it's completely tangential to this article. Given that you have "Fuck Elon Musk" in your Twitter bio, I'm guessing that this is a major issue for you and possibly part of your identity. That said, doxxing people's location in real-time absolutely is a security risk and kidnapping is nothing to laugh about. I believe it's an unethical choice to donate to the legal fund of someone intentionally and stubbornly engaging in that kind of behavior (and even working around technical barriers built by regulatory bodies to do so).
- ceejayoz 4y ago> Given that you have "Fuck Elon Musk" in your Twitter bio, I'm guessing that this is a major issue for you and possibly part of your identity. Part of my job is working with the Twitter API. If someone gave you a week's notice of a major breaking change, with no details, then delayed it multiple times - still without any details, to this date! - you'd be feeling some frustration with Musk as well. https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922 https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922 https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1623467615539859456 https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1623467615539859456 https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1625234161010343941 https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1625234161010343941 (I'm one of the luckier ones; it's only part of what I do. The Tweetbots and Twitterifics of the world have even more reason to be upset.) > That said, doxxing people's location in real-time absolutely is a security risk and kidnapping is nothing to laugh about. The claim that ADS-B tracking results in kidnappings is laughable.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoLots of things get claimed hiding behind "sources say", "reportedly" and other weasel words. These aren't the Pentagon Papers where anonymity is essential to one's continuing to have a heartbeat. While it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, without some actual evidence, its office gossip muckraking of the type you used to have to purchase a tabloid to read about.
- toss1 4y agoUmm, considering that the most senior people have literally been fired on the spot for as little as merely suggesting at look at data that Dear Leader Musk's popularity may have declined, and he has a history of similar vindictiveness (hiring PI's to investigate & harass disgruntled employees, etc.), there are very real consequences here that people need to worry about, so journalistic protection of sources is clearly warranted if we want to get any news at all.
- rchaud 4y ago> its office gossip muckraking of the type you used to have to purchase a tabloid to read about. Or you could just follow the CEO's Twitter: "Musk participated in a Twitter Spaces Friday night about childhood exploitation, and responded to one of the participants on Saturday after she linked to an old tweet of Roth’s. “Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis,” tweeted Musk, with an excerpt from the 300-page dissertation." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/elon-musk-smears-former-twitter-executive-yoel-roth.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/elon-musk-smears-for...
- barbariangrunge 4y agoThe first half of the title might be verifiable and interesting fact; the second half is lazy, drivel, mind reading; makes the journalist seem like they care more about riding todays hype train than about reporting facts
- niklasbuschmann 4y agoSimply block him and he won‘t show up in the timeline
- meepmorp 4y agoFor now
- rsynnott 4y agoEvery time there's one of these stories, I check my dormant Twitter account to see if he's unblocked himself. I'm convinced it'll happen one day.
- lolc 4y agoHuh, now I wonder what he thinks of the rising tide of blocks on his profile. Wouldn't surprise me if these "mistaken" blocks were reverted soon.
- 0x500x79 4y agoI have noticed a large difference in the past couple of days in my timeline. Every time I load the page there are 4 Elon tweets in the top 100 (with Elon being the top entry every single time). There are also an increasing number of ads in my timeline, every 4-5 tweets has an ad. I finally had to mute Elon with the terrible memes and too many tweets in the feed. I could have sworn I did this a couple of months ago, so I'm surprised I had to do it again. His tweet around "absolute block versus percent block" made sense to me, but even so every single time I load twitter his tweets are at the top of my page, it's too much and I wouldn't be surprised if he does have a factor enabled due the changes I have seen recently.
- m-p-3 4y agoBlocked him, so it doesn't matter how hard he tries to get his tweets higher up fro my point of view at least.
- rchaud 4y agoTwitter Blue users will apparently get the ability to be un-blockable, basically turning them into the equivalent of paid banner ads.
- klyrs 4y agoElon, if you're reading this: this is the one true path to monetization. Prioritize tweets like ads: a bidding war per timeline. They'll say they hate it, but they'll pay through the nose.
- not_a_shill 4y agoHe did it because he wanted his tweets to be seen more. Jealousy is a baseless interpretation. I'm sure the author wouldn't want people insulting her over unhinged articles or other obvious things.
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