Elon Musk

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)

Elon Sludge would have been a good name for this guy, like Sly Sludge from Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

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.

This is my experience as well. I only follow a couple of hundred people, and a lot of them seem to have peeled off/made their escape, so sometimes I'll click "For You" just to see something new/surprising. (This will occasionally surface tweets by people I follow that I was not previously shown, for some reason.)

garbage day called his posting style "radioactive levels of Keep Calm And Chive On divorced Funko Pop brain" which sounds right

uuuuuuugh that is brutally accurate

Swore I thought I had already blocked him but, yeah, starting Monday he was showing up all the fuck over my feed so I blocked him (again?) while we are still able to do so.

Blocked him ages ago, now only see people talking about his bullshit.

as someone who's divorced the Elon discourse is really interesting in that apparently everyone thinks divorced people are weird scumbags

The code also allows Musk’s account to bypass Twitter heuristics that would otherwise prevent a single account from flooding the core ranked feed

total U2 ripoff

My guess is that the ratio of divorce people to scum bags is likely the same as any population

i dont think people really think that its just a joke, not so much about being a scumbag more sweaty denial like a mid life crisis

the divorced guy stereotype is homosocial renewed burst of bottom-of-the-barrel misogyny a la scott adams afaict. my own divorced brother very much fits this stereotype but it is undoubtedly unfair to lots of divorced men.

i would submit that there is an ambient flow in that direction and if you're a particularly unmoored divorced man it's easy to go that way.

One of the unpleasant things I occasionally encountered in my just-divorced years was meeting another divorced guy who would take our similar states as grounds to launch into bitter diatribes about women. I would curtail the conversations as quickly as possible. I never ever wanted to be that guy.

(Not least becz as a divorced guy I was way more interested in meeting and talking to women than talking to other lonely dudes.)

https://i.redd.it/gwq41svhgzk71.jpg

some men are very immature and respond to pain by crawling back into the womb of boyhood

being a Divorced Guy is different from being a guy who got divorced

bachelor arms would be a great name for a fisting event.

some men are very immature and respond to pain by crawling back into the womb of boyhood

ah interesting

Tesla is recalling ~10% of all the cars it has ever sold https://t.co/5vFaQYEz49

— hal 👾 (@halhod) February 16, 2023

Tesla is voluntarily recalling 362,758 vehicles equipped with the company’s experimental driver-assistance software, which is marketed as Full Self-Driving Beta or FSD Beta, in the US, according to a recall notice out Thursday. Tesla will deliver an over-the-air software update to cars to address the issues, the recall notice said.

The FSD Beta system may cause crashes by allowing the affected vehicles to: “Act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution,” according to a safety recall report on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The FSD Beta system may also have trouble responding appropriately “to changes in posted speed limits,” the notice said.

and now this!

Tesla fires dozens of employees in retaliation for organizing

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/tesla-fires-dozens-of-workers-over-union-campaign-complaint-alleges.html

man thats just brazen

fwiw muting him works better than blocking

Killing him would be even better.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c19e14-6bf8-4f74-ad48-0a9ebe2345ca_1328x832.png

This just popped up for me. I don't even know how to start doing this. pic.twitter.com/mrMac8VKRA

— Mr. Mark Potts (@mrmarkpotts) February 18, 2023

As the former lead for Ads at Twitter, I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about https://t.co/Hw4TfkFNJH

— bruce.falck() 🦗 (@boo) February 17, 2023

Tesla thinks train is bunch of slow trucks pic.twitter.com/1cidVc58tC

— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) February 19, 2023

Convoy!

let's be real: a train really is a series of slow trucks

someone had to say it

they even toot their horns like slow trucks do

what do these people think the bronze age was like pic.twitter.com/tMc9WS8vZ2

— m (@kept_simple) February 20, 2023

weirdos

not sure why i posted that here, other than andreessen being a twitter investor and also because i immediately imagined elon tweeting "interesting" in response to that