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5:58Now PlayingElon Musk humiliates himself with an unbelievably desperate emergency engineering scheme to feed his ego and immediately after calls for #blockelon explode on Twitter. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report.
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‘This Is High Urgency’Musk Reportedly Demanded Twitter Algorithm Change After Super Bowl Tweet Got Fewer Views Than Biden’s
"Many Twitter users are noticing more of Elon Musk’s tweets and replies in the default “For You” feed on the platform.
As The Verge noted on Monday, the social media platform appeared to change its algorithm to show more tweets from Musk, whether users are following him or not.
Now we know why.
According to a report published by the tech site Platformer, Twitter’s CEO demanded engineers rejigger the algorithm to surface his tweets in the “For You” section.
Citing people familiar with the inner workings at the company, Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton describe a man seemingly so desirous for more attention, he is willing to muster his company’s resources to achieve it:"
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