When his popularity drops, Elon Musk slices heads!
Elon Musk is trying to figure out how Twitter’s algorithm works and is doing some weird experiments right now by posting a simple point. or by setting his account to private mode to see who could or could not see his messages. In fact, one thing annoys him: he is not seen enough and he thinks that the people who were in charge before him had decided to limit the number of views of his tweets. It must be said that the “shadow ban” is something common for users who are not “in the mould” of well-meaning: you are not banned, but your account is muzzled, no one sees your tweets and you gain no new followers.
You’re fired. You’re fired.
He therefore brought together a group of engineers on Tuesday, February 7 to get answers: “I have over 100 million followers and only tens of thousands of impressions? [le nombre de vues de ses tweets, NDLR] It’s ridiculous ! »
An engineer tried to provide him with an explanation, with supporting evidence: while in April 2022, his popularity score on search engines was 100 points, it is only 9 points now. Other indicators show that people are less interested in his news and that there is nothing within Twitter’s code that limits the views of his tweets.
Rocket Man took it the wrong way and just cut it: “You’re fired. You are fired. »
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining reach https://t.co/s5zBPSMJZe pic.twitter.com/1SVfzQ30AS
— The Verge (@verge) February 10, 2023
Putting out trash fires: a great job
In the article of The Verge, we also learn that morale is not looking good at Twitter. By dint of laying off people, there are breakdowns or badly implemented innovations. An employee explained that they put out the “trash fires” one after the other. Musk sends late-night messages to his employees asking them to fix a problem one person had and when the boss asks for something, employees terrified of getting fired give the answers the boss wants to hear .
“When someone asks you a question, you go through it in your head and think, ‘what is the least incendiary answer I can have? “”.
