On Wednesday morning, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said: locked my twitter accounttells the user, “I’m going to keep my account private until tomorrow morning to test if I see more private tweets than public tweets.”
Since then, Twitter users have teased Musk for seemingly unaware of how the platform works, or at least not having a Twitter engineer to explain it to him. 1 account with nearly 70,000 followers joked Musk had to run “an idea for a middle-schooler’s experiment to understand how the company’s algorithms work.” I had to. Also, the changing working environment at Twitter threatened to cause many engineers to leave his Twitter, destabilizing the platform and causing it to malfunction.
It’s really funny that he spent $44 billion on the company, but he needs to run a middle school experiment idea to understand how the company’s algorithms work. pic.twitter.com/LhcQSVerfx
—KnowNothing (@KnowNothingTV) February 1, 2023
Musk seems to be spending the rest of the day testing this experiment, apparently catering to conservative users. Like Libs of TikTok When Ben Shapiroreported that it ran its own tests to prove that locked accounts generate more views than general accounts.
In the past, Twitter’s CEO, who said he bought the platform to promote free speech, eliminate echo chambers and open more dialogue in Twitter’s “town squares,” said that Twitter users could delete their accounts. It could be the last person you expect to rock. Musk is very active on the platform, and his regular public tweets seem to reach audiences beyond his own followers.
Yesterday, a New York Times report analyzed 20,000 Musk tweets posted over the past five years to assess how Musk uses the platform and how Musk embraced diverse perspectives on the platform. We investigated whether he was meeting his own stated goal of boosting.
According to that analysis, Musk mostly follows accounts run by men and organizations related to his business, and posts “all day, most days of the week.” Musk has spent more time dealing with followers who directly mention him in tweets praising him. Even his Musk’s deleted tweets, which have 128 million followers, are widely viewed across platforms, but in this experiment, he found that his platform restricted viewing of his tweets. It seems that I am questioning whether it is.
As it stands, Twitter’s popularity as a platform is largely due to its nearly unmatched ability to boost messages from even the most obscure accounts. Before Musk took over, Twitter was famous for launching “main characters,” with thousands and millions of users on the platform participating in heated discussions of viral tweets. Musk himself has recently emerged as one of his Twitter’s most popular and enduring main characters, making his tweets almost inevitable on the platform.
Before starting his test today, Musk’s trust in Twitter seemed high. He recently tried to prove the power of his platform by adding new public metrics, including view counts that show the true reach of a tweet. It looks like they’ve started using views to track whether tweets generated from accounts with higher reach have a wider reach. Theorize that followers are more likely to see tweets from locked accounts than public accounts.
EU planning Twitter ‘stress test’
Musk is trying to run his own tests on the Tweet View for the reported issue, but it looks like it’s going to be on the verge of a crisis, and Twitter will soon comply with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) within the next few years. ) promises to comply with its strict social media rules. Months later, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Before locking his account, Musk tweeted that the EU’s “goals of transparency, accountability and accuracy of information are aligned,” and a community note to prevent misinformation from spreading on the platform. pointed out to help ensure DSA compliance.
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has been closely monitoring Twitter’s compliance and will announce an update on Twitter in the coming weeks to identify how Twitter currently does not comply with DSA requirements for blocking illegal content. You said you would run a “stress test”. If the company doesn’t prioritize timely compliance, that testing could ultimately lead to fines or restrictions against Twitter.
The WSJ said EU officials were concerned that Twitter’s mass layoffs, affecting engineering, trust and safety teams, could make it difficult for the platform to quickly comply with EU directives. It says it does. Musk’s apparent inability to consult engineers about malfunction reports from users suggests that these concerns may be valid.
Despite promising to provide more transparency about how the platform works, Twitter could not be reached for comment as its communications office is reportedly still closed under masks. bottom.
