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Recently, Twitter’s “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed, but on Monday afternoon, more than a few people noticed this activity.
Some users who don’t even follow him on the social networking service were receiving updates from the billionaire, leaving many to question what was going on.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelThis is coming days after Musk complained that his tweets weren’t getting enough views and allegedly fired an engineer over it.
As reported by Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton, internal Twitter data indicates that while Musk’s account rose to peak popularity in search rankings in April 2022, engagement has since dropped significantly, and engineers found no issue with Twitter’s algorithm.
Over the weekend, Musk said Twitter rolled out some sort of change to fix this “visibility” issue, with the billionaire CEO stating that 95 percent of his tweets weren’t “getting delivered”.
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Last week, he changed his Twitter account’s setting to private, to see if that might boost the number of his audience.
The step was taken after many prominent right-wing accounts complained that their reach has reduced after the recent changes incorporated into Twitter.
Reacting to the new development, A twitter user, Jeremy Schneider said “ You are indeed force feeding us and we are not happy about it” Famous UK Youtuber KSI, said “Not a change I was expecting from you”
In other recent developments, Elon Musk is planning to buy Manchester United. According to Daily Mail, the tech-billionaire is believed to be monitoring the situation closely, and wondering if there is an opportunity at Old Trafford that he should not miss.
