These 35 celebrities get special treatment
The fact that Twitter prefers some celebrities should hardly surprise a user after the takeover by Elon Musk. But the mixture is impressive. We show you which celebrities the social network prefers.
The algorithms of the major social networks should be a mystery to many users. It gets even more puzzling, however, if you add a pinch of Elon Musk to this. Because since the takeover of Twitter, the Tesla CEO has come up with a lot for the platform.
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Does Twitter really want to treat everyone equally?
Elon Musk once said he wanted to abolish the “current system of rule that determines who has a blue tick and who doesn’t”. Therefore, he decoupled the blue tick from the celebrity status of the users. Going forward, this should only be available to paying Blue subscribers.
In the past week, all users who previously had a blue tick were informed that this status was expiring. In his justification, Elon Musk writesIt’s about “treating everyone equally”.
It’s more about treating everyone equally. There shouldn’t be a different standard for celebrities imo. https://t.co/rWi99sGPdq
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023
Twitter algorithm: special treatment for 35 celebrities
But that’s probably not quite true like the US magazine platformers reported. According to this, the social network has had a list of “about 35 VIP users” for “months”. These accounts would be monitored and given “increased visibility”.
In addition to politicians and journalists, this list also includes celebrities. These include US President Joe Biden and Democratic MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But the accounts of actor Jaboukie Young-White and NBA All-Star LeBron James are also among the preferred accounts. Aside from that:
- YouTuber Mr. Beast
- former beard-Author Ben Shapiro
- Journalist Glenn Greenwald
- Twitter investor Marc Andreessen
Elon Musk has been preferred for a long time
After the many – sometimes absurd – reports on Twitter in the past few months, the preference for individual celebrities should hardly come as a surprise. Because the tweets by CEO Elon Musk have also been shown to all users for a long time.
How platformers As reported back in February, the platform has favored Musk’s tweets for quite some time. This was due to US President Joe Biden’s Super Bowl tweet. Because it had more range than Musk’s.
Musk’s dissatisfaction with this culminated in a night shift for his engineers. Since then, all users have been shown the boss’s tweets – whether they follow him or not.
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