Elon Musk

lol no one tell Elon where the internet came from

Can't wait until the USAF discovers that they invested https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-1-9-million-air-force-contract-for-starlink-services-in-europe-and-africa/.9 million in something that's not supposed to be weaponized.

Nice interview about how Tesla exists as a stock-promotion/manipulation company first and everything else a distant second:

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/154_the_tesla_crash_is_only_beginning_w_edward_niedermeyer/

“We haven’t seen much in the way of longer term, cogent strategy,”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-VAi2Xqq8

"Are my methods unsound?"

"I don't see any method at all, sir."

confirmed

This was me, my 6.5-year stint at Twitter comes to an end today. Proud of the work we did and have full confidence the three or four people left will be able to honor Elon’s requests to artificially inflate his view counts (and view counts for advertisers). Not me though 🫡 https://t.co/VyXhUraCmr

— jordan (@jdan) February 9, 2023

btw not sure how twitter charges but is he accusing elon of fraud

lol woz emptying the clip, poor lil sorkin just wanted to talk about great entrepreneurs

Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are “very similar … in being like a cult leader,” says Steve Wozniak.

“A lot of honesty disappears when you look at Elon Musk and Tesla,” he says. They’ve “robbed my family … of so much money” by lying about their products. pic.twitter.com/qis7Z65snm

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) February 10, 2023

I like Woz, he's being measured in his assessment

yeah, having read Woz's autobio I am deeply weary of his "oh I never ever tell a lie" schtick, as if that's a lock on the moral high ground in every circumstance, but those seem like pretty useful distinctions between the Cult of Jobs and the Cult of Musk. I can't imagine a site like folklore.org arising to express exasperation and fondness for Musk, who seems like an absolute dick 24/7. People listened to Jobs because he had charisma and genuinely loved what he was doing (even when he lost bigtime as a result), people listen to Musk because he has been financially successful without an iota of the other ingredients. If he wasn't wealthy there would be about 200 Jordan Peterson acolytes who admired his ability to be a dick in public, and a wide circle of disgust around that. Which I'm hoping for as the outcome of the Twitter self-immolation.

Lag00n I think the Jordan tweet is a joke

shdve checked on that

Wait, is it a joke that the tweeter was the engineer who was fired (i.e. he was not), or a joke that Elon is demanding the engineers inflate the view numbers (because I'm pretty sure Elon is actually doing just that in a Trumpian "hint at what you want done without saying it in a way that a jury would find you culpable")?

the first

i'm sorry guys, i was the engineer

its a me engineerio

this guy

Musk surrounded by dudes who tell him it’s cool how he steals memes pic.twitter.com/dECKUw61NO

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 10, 2023

"What color shirt is he wearing today? Black? Okay, got it - black it is."

well they probably have a duffel with some shirts next to their bed they slept in at the office, so it's pretty easy to match Elon's look for the day

I don't think it's body-shaming to say that Elon could really use a few minutes outdoors everyday, in the sun and fresh air

hey, he's trying to fit in with the nerds

ENGINEER 1: your engagement is tanking bc you're less popular

ELON: you're fired

ENGINEER 2: your engagement is tanking... because.. uh... you're TOO popular

ELON: i like this guy pic.twitter.com/HNbBeE4ncv

— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) February 12, 2023

95% of his tweets weren’t “getting delivered at all”? How much does he tweet? I don’t even follow him but I still his tweets all the damn time.

i think he means that it wouldn't appear on the feeds of 95% of his followers, or whatever. the tweets would get through, but due to his massive popularity and how much everyone wants to know what he's tweeting, it would overload the system and fail to reach most of the people who definitely wanted to read those tweets

i wonder what he's doing right now

I had to block him to get them to stop appearing in my feed constantly, wtf is he talking about

Whenever Elon's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "where's Elon?"

I mean, hasnt everyone always complained the algo of this and FB is crap at showing ppl you follow? Is he gonna address it for everyone or just his posts hahahaha what am I saying.

sitting with rupert murdoch at the superbowl a lil too on the nose

Pi-kapika!

lmao he deleted his "Go Eagles" tweet right after they lost. what a loser.

he jinxed them

He lost a bet. Jackson Mahomes now head of Twitter marketing.

People of Earth!

Looking forward to Tesla Investor Day on March 1.

By this, we mean the broadest definition of investor, as in the people & life of Earth.

It will be a message of good hope & positivity for the future.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 13, 2023

lmfbo

NEW: Elon Musk directed Twitter engineers to design a secret system to boost his tweets over everyone else's after his post about the Super Bowl did poorly compared to President Biden's: https://t.co/HsJ0BZOSCI

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) February 15, 2023

got to hand it to him he’s the coolest

I'm surprised he still lets users block him.

buddy calm down just submit a ticket

His deputies told the rest of the engineering team this weekend that if the engagement issue wasn’t “fixed,” they would all lose their jobs as well.

Late Sunday night, Musk addressed his team in-person. Roughly 80 people were pulled in to work on the project, which had quickly become priority number one at the company. Employees worked through the night investigating various hypotheses about why Musk’s tweets weren’t reaching as many people as he thought they should and testing out possible solutions.

But there were also legitimate technical reasons the CEO’s tweets weren’t performing. Twitter’s system has historically promoted tweets from users whose posts perform better to both followers and non-followers in the For You Tab; Musk’s tweets should have fit that model but showed up less only about half the time that some engineers thought they should, according to some internal estimates.

By Monday afternoon, “the problem” had been “fixed.” Twitter deployed code to automatically “greenlight” all of Musk’s tweets, meaning his tweets will bypass Twitter’s filters designed to show people the best content possible. The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000 – a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed.

Internally, this is called a “power user multiplier,” although it only applies to Elon Musk, we’re told. The code also allows Musk’s account to bypass Twitter heuristics that would otherwise prevent a single account from flooding the core ranked feed, now known as “For You.”

That explains why people opening the app Monday found that Musk dominated the feed, with a dozen or more Musk tweets and replies visible to anyone who followed him and millions more who did not. Over 90 percent of Musk’s followers now see his tweets, according to one internal estimate.

the only power user

*elon musk 'hmphs'*

Over 90 percent of Musk’s followers now see his tweets, according to one internal estimate.

Good, they deserve it.

god this is the most pathetic thing, I'm actually embarrassed for him

He's so funny. Just unmoored, that guy. He has a lot of needs.

I wouldn't have thought it should cost billions of dollars to turn yourself into Poochie

gonna be funny when he unloads twitter to some vc for a fraction of what he paid

this must be in his pre-acquisition plan for bankrupting it imo

Gonna get seized by the banks

Question for the Twitter users: If I understand correctly there is a chronological feed you can choose that shows you all the tweets by all the people you follow in chronological order but I guess nobody uses it or knows about it? If there is, is the “problem”really that Elon and all the right wingers want everyone to see their tweets all the time no matter if you want to or not using the “algorithm”?

NB: I haven’t signed up for Twitter only read it through stuff people text me or from here.)

• there is a chronological feed and lots of people know about it and use it
• its main drawbacks are that if you follow a lot of bots (as i do) then mostly the chronological feed shows you bots and not discourse, or only the discourse of the busily active
• a benefit does seem to be that i never encounter his thin-skinned lordship
• for some time when "for you" debuted you would be defaulted back to it every time you logged in -- this seems to no longer be the case?
• if you have alts then you will get the default "for you" after you switch back from an alt to main, and apparently for a few times after that
• to begin with "for you" did sometimes deliver unexpected random stuff that was good not bad which the chronological feed generally doesn't, but now it apparently primarily delivers a deep crust of musk's shitty tweets for you to trudge through

I've switched to 'for you' as I don't follow that many people and I miss the unexpected random stuff. I've seen zero musk content (except for people dunking on him), the main disadvantage of 'for you' for er me is that i see some tweets more than once, seven times is the most i've counted so far.

yes maybe the elon-sludge issue has been cleared up? i only read about it tbf, that he was suddenly all over everyone's TL after the superbowl -- anyway i just switched to my main alt and back and saw nothing of his. on the whole i find curation p effective tbh (i follow a ton of bots and i go on block-sprees for promoted accounts)