Elon Musk’s biggest enemy may be his own website.
On Friday, Twitter owner Elon Musk started pushing. return(opens in new tab) Against report Last week, the company tweaked the platform’s algorithm to specifically enhance Musk’s own tweets.
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Musk said on Twitter, “Several major media sources erroneously reported earlier this week that my tweets were above normal levels.” , especially the percentage of followers, shows this to be false.”
“There was a bug that temporarily caused replies to have the same prominence as the main tweet, but that’s now fixed,” Musk said.At that time, masks admit(opens in new tab) “Algorithm” problem.
However, Musk’s claims have been refuted by Twitter’s own data, which show a significant increase in impressions of Musk’s tweets in line with Twitter’s reported algorithm change timeline.
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Queensland University of Technology researcher Timothy Graham analyzed(opens in new tab) data pulled directly from Twitter’s official API; and found(opens in new tab) On Feb. 13, the day after the Super Bowl, shortly after the reported algorithm change took place, impressions of Musk’s tweet increased by 737%. Days after Musk’s tweets acknowledged the algorithm’s problems, daily impressions for Musk’s tweets nearly tripled.
Musk supported his version of the story by tweeting what he called a “review” of “likes and views of tweets from the past six months.”As evidence for this review, he screenshot(opens in new tab) Of the 311 million impressions, one of his tweets last April was about putting cocaine back in Coca-Cola, and his subsequent tweets said he was “nowhere near” that number yet. I’m here. Note, however, that individual tweets from users with less than 1,000 followers of his regularly go viral and garner millions of views.
As platformer(opens in new tab) As first reported, Twitter engineers were tasked with making changes to the website shortly after Sunday’s Super Bowl after one of Musk’s tweets and a similar post from President Joe Biden didn’t work. I lost. The following afternoon, a “fix” to Twitter that “artificially multiplied Mr. Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000” was announced.
The change in Twitter’s algorithm was so obvious that users started right away. I complain Their feeds were filled with Musk tweets.
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No matter how you look at it, musk claim(opens in new tab) The platformer’s report was “fake,” and the outlet’s source said, “I took months of paid leave and had already accepted a job at Google, feeling the need to poison the well along the way.” Musk then claimed that Twitter would take legal action against the individual.
Platformer Casey Newton answered(opens in new tab) Musk’s claims were inaccurate, and the outlet supported the story.
This isn’t the first time Twitter’s own data has debunked the claims of Musk and his defenders this week.
On Thursday, Musk’s fans Mashable Story Tesla was wrong about leaving Twitter Blue. His Mashable tweet, which links to the story, was accompanied by a community note of his, claiming that Tesla confirmed the business with a gold checkmark, so he may not be a Twitter Blue subscriber in the first place. I’m here.
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Musk signaled(opens in new tab) His support for this usage of Twitter’s Community Notes in Tweets.
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However, Twitter’s own data pulled from its official API shows that Tesla did in fact unsubscribe from Twitter Blue last week.Furthermore, the data offered(opens in new tab) An example of a business verified account with a gold check mark again(opens in new tab) Disproved claims that Tesla’s Twitter Blue subscription was impossible in the first place.
The community note was later removed from Mashable’s tweet linking to Twitter Blue’s story.
