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ZOË SHIFFER:

And he tweets out basically his support for the Philadelphia Eagles. I think his tweet was something like, "Go Eagles" with a few American flags on it. Biden, around the same time, posts a somewhat similar tweet. "Fly, Eagles, fly," and it's a video of his wife, Jill Biden, who's walking with an Eagles jersey on. The game goes on. Elon Musk checks his phone. Weird. It looks like Joe Biden, who he's called "a damp sock puppet in human form," is doing much better than he is in terms of engagement on this very similar tweet.

JAMES JACOBY:

Zoë Schiffer and her colleague at Platformer spoke to multiple sources at Twitter about what happened next.

ZOË SHIFFER:

By the end of the game, the Eagles lose and Elon is completely furious. Something is going on with his account, in his mind. And so he gets on his jet. He flies straight back to Twitter's office in San Francisco.

JAMES JACOBY:

At 2:36 a.m., she says an urgent message went out, and roughly 80 engineers were pulled into work.

ZOË SHIFFER:

And they're tasked with fixing the issues with the algorithm. What the engineers decide to do is reconfigure the algorithm so that Elon Musk's account is boosted.

Very quickly, we're able to talk to people who were in the room at the time and were working on these algorithmic changes. And the reason that people are talking to us is that people are pissed at this point.

JAMES JACOBY:

The effect was immediate.

MALE REPORTER:

If you use Twitter and you feel like you’ve been seeing a lot of Elon Musk lately, you’re not crazy.

MALE REPORTER:

The entire "For You" feed was just Elon Musk.

SARAH SILVERMAN:

Because it behooves all of us to be privy to the fresh and original insights of the richest man in the world.

ZOË SHIFFER:

I was seeing so much Elon. And then I tweeted, "Is anyone else's 'For You' tab just Elon Musk today?" And it was hundreds of people were like, "Yes, what is happening?"
 

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This is the least surprising return to Twitter IMO. There's already a bunch of people who peddle the same shit he does (Tim Pool, Dom Lucre and Steven Crowder for example) or worse (literal Nazis) on the platform.
 

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Shit's just so funny. Alex Jones being there is fine now, I don't care. He balances out Hasan Piker. I just don't think he will be funny anymore, although thinking about it if the conspiracy theory of him being Bill Hicks comes back I will enjoy that for a couple days.
 

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What a collection of ghouls. Really just missing Baked Alaska and @BruiserBrody in his Batman mask.

I’m done with Twitter. It should have happened months ago but I guess I didn’t want to eliminate 50% of my posts here.
 

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Everyone I know personally has left except for the Cryptobro (who is paying to lose money but get exposure for the NFT shit), the girl Cryptobro is in love with who doesn't have any interest in him, and a best friend's husband who is a darn snarky leftist. I only open it to look up specific things, when I do open it at all. By using it at all I feel like I'm at least 37% complicit in adding to brain injuries.

Do people use Threads at all or did that drop off? I get updates that people post things, but it's almost exclusively left-wing celebrities and while I love Leah Thompson it doesn't seem like it's worth pursuing a space to hear her insight on world matters.
 

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What a collection of ghouls. Really just missing Baked Alaska and @BruiserBrody in his Batman mask.

I’m done with Twitter. It should have happened months ago but I guess I didn’t want to eliminate 50% of my posts here.
I'm sticking around just to watch the whole thing burn.
 

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I’m still on Twitter because of the podcast. Coaches are on Twitter because athletes are on Twitter. So we’re all on the app and just about everyone hates what it has become. The feed has become so far to the right and every time you mute accounts or certain keywords, seemingly more keeps popping up.
 

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For it's just politics, right and left. Right moreso but left is hideous. My feed just now was a cocktail of terrible examples of humanity. Not even a funny one.
 

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My twitter is the board twitter or I'd probably not even be on there in the first place anymore. If I could actually trust the people on this board to have current emails for their board accounts we wouldn't need social media accounts to tell them if something happens to the board but I know that isn't likely.
 
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