Twitter's For You page right now really is just Elon Musk and his replies to other accounts ... you could not write a funnier parody about a billionaire taking over a social. network
@caseynewton he’s absolutely west coast trump
@JAllen @caseynewton I noticed that too and thought it was just my feed. Sad!
@mmccue @JAllen @caseynewton Musk's now very visibly, publicly hanging out with Rupert Murdoch in his leisure time.
@mmccue @JAllen @caseynewton https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system
"Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm"
@mmccue @JAllen @caseynewton same.
I’m also ashamed I went back on for a second to see….
@mmccue @JAllen @caseynewton ugh. Went back on again. It’s like watching a car wreck and sometimes you can’t help yourself. Ugh…. And it brought me nothing but utter dismay and sadness.
@JAllen @caseynewton South African Tr*mp despite whatever amount of time he has spent in California. Telling that he moved one/some of his other company HQs from CA to TX.
Somehow, he's managing to be more pathetic, though.
To all parents out there: give your kids the attention they need, now, so they don't grow up to be pathetically attention-seeking as adults.
@caseynewton
Musk's For You: [please clap]
@caseynewton honestly I haven't opened mastodon in weeks but Twitter is completely useless. all elon. so hilarious after spending the weekend with his team trying to make his tweets show up more
@caseynewton On one hand, I can’t believe this is what’s become of this site that used to have such an outsized presence in our lives and on the other, this is exactly what I would expect
@caseynewton Why even bother calling it Twitter. Call it Musky or something more crude. That's what people are going there for anyways.
@ShrikeTron @caseynewton I think "the musk site," would be appropriate.
@caseynewton I was like no way this could be you’re right
Literally “your roommates cousins dog sitter”
you are not convincing me to go there, buddy.
@caseynewton and here I am running an instance with 3500 people, afraid that I’ll run people away if I toot too much on the local timeline
@caseynewton who at Twitter dares tell him that too many people are seeing his tweets
@caseynewton
Any advertisers left now gets musk porn next to every ad
@caseynewton I wonder if he tracks how many people will be blocking him for this
@caseynewton I'll, uh, take your word for it. (!)
That 100% says something about you, and not #Twitter itself.
My For You Page, to compare, has:
@jason@twitter.com @CCNCartoonNews@twitter.com @elonmusk@twitter.com @BillboardChris@twitter.com @notsoErudite@twitter.com @MKBHD@twitter.com @coffeebreak_YT@twitter.com @nfrealmusic@twitter.com @LinusTech@twitter.com @ostonox@twitter.com @Logo_Daedalus@twitter.com @AdamCrigler@twitter.com
You are probably obsessed with #ElonMusk.
@realcaseyrollins @caseynewton
No, *I* am obsessed with #ElonMusk.
Casey is doing his job, and he is not the first or last to report the same thing. They probably fixed it at this point after so much mocking.
No need to be obnoxious just because you are not getting the same results.
If you check the timestamps, I responded to the OP within about an hour of it being posted. If #ElonMusk fixed it so quickly, he broke it again afterwards, because people are still complaining about it.
Ayo
It’s always hilarious when people block me for no reason
Well, if people are still complaining, than it means it was happening, and your original post is mooo.
The way to keep it from happening is to stop being obsessed with #ElonMusk, most likely. I’m not sure that my post is moot.
So we have the fact that he fired a lead engineer at #Twitter, on the spot, for telling him the truth about his engagement going down just a couple of days ago.
And your theory is that coincidentally, in last two days, people started obsessing with #ElonMusk so much that this started magically happening!
It has NOTHING to do with him firing the last guy who did not want to "fix" his engagement numbers!
Is that really your stance here?
Yes; unless you’re saying this algorithm change was only targeted at certain people for some reason, which is why I never saw it on my end
They might very well have targeted people with larger followings, that would make a lot of sense. There could have been any crazy kind of criteria. What it does not make sense is that just 2 days ago people started obsessing with Musk.
Noice! Thanks for sharing.
I can’t believe everyone hadn’t blocked him already.
@inklings @caseynewton they basically announced that this time we need a large percentage of blocks compared to follows to make him disappear. I'm doing my part...
@caseynewton And that's even though I removed space Karen from my list of generated "interests"
@caseynewton I guess I am not the only one who noticed I had a weirdly high amount of tweets or even just replies from Musk in the feed. Maybe the engineers who saw their lead fired a few days ago over Musk complaining about his unpopularity are trying to pump the engagement to keep their job https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/13/23598514/twitter-algorithm-elon-musk-tweets
@caseynewton musk is heading into Epstein Land
@caseynewton @df Elon Musk trying to take on @donmelton as The Human Recommendation Engine…no contest
@caseynewton the bigger problem with musk twitter is what you don't see.
There are multiple accounts i follow that post multiple times a day and i haven't seen any of their posts in my feed (in either "following" or "for me") for months.
I only follow ~200 people
It's just a shitty broken platform now
@caseynewton i don't see anything from him in my feed.
@caseynewton it depends on whom you follow or interacted in the past I guess. My main official account also shows a lot of Elon’s tweets but I have another account for football and there I don’t see a single Elon Musk post in the For You page.
@caseynewton Sounds like the coders figured out to solve "I'm not getting enough views" problem.
@caseynewton literal lol
he's gonna make all of the filthy poors listen to him, whether they want to or not
@caseynewton Maybe because this is all were u looking at. I have nothing about Elon, not even his friends, in my for you page. I have to completely disagree with this info, sorry.
@caseynewton I’m quite sure this was all part of his plan to get millions of followers. In fact, you could say he’s paid more than anyone else on the planet to buy followers.
@caseynewton am I imagining things or have they stopped jumping you over to it at every opportunity?
@caseynewton Welcome to the “All New” Twitter - All Elon All The Time
@caseynewton Gotta drive that engagement with the chief twit somehow.
@caseynewton Wow. Logged in to check and this was literally the first screen.