Elon Musk told his followers to “fix” their Twitter feed to show “Latest tweets.Twitter founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey said the setting was simply a way of showing trending news.
Khushi Shah – Mumbai Uncensored, 16th May 2022
Recently, annoyed at the presence of fake users on Twitter after putting the $44 billion takeover deal on hold, the Tesla CEO said that his team was busy finding out the presence of fake accounts with the random sampling process.
He does not believe in Twitter findings which say that false or spam accounts represent fewer than 5 per cent of its monetisable daily active users which are around 229 million. Two hours later, unpredictable as ever, Elon Musk added a tweet, saying “Still committed to acquisition.”
“You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you do not realise. Easy to switch back and forth to see the difference,” Musk wrote in a series of tweets.
Sharing a potential way to beat the HYPERLINK “https://www.timesnownews.com/topic/twitter-algorithm”Twitter algorithm and fix the feed, Musk tweeted, “Very important to fix your Twitter feed:
- Tap home button.
- Tap stars on upper right of screen.
- Select “Latest tweets”.
“Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference,”
In the same thread, Musk wrote sarcastically: “(This message is brought to you by the Illuminaughty)”. The illuminati is a designation assumed by or applied to groups of persons who claim to be unusually enlightened.
Responding to Musk’s tweet, Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, said that the algorithm of the microblogging platform was designed simply to save time when a user is away from the app for a while. He wrote that pull to refresh goes back to “reverse chron” as well.
Earlier in the week, he said he’d reverse the platform’s ban of President Donald Trump if his purchase goes through. The same day, he also said he supported a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content.
He has also been advocating through several tweets that one of his priorities would be to remove “spam bots” from the platform.His entire motivation to acquire Twitter was based on his desire to ensure freedom of speech on the platform and to boost monetisation of an internet site that is influential in media and political circles but has struggled to attain profitable growth.
