Elon Musk's Twitter

[Fall of Epic]

Is anyone else getting a lot of MAGA chud nonsense in their feed? Everytime I open the app I'm subjected to Matt Walsh, Nick Adams, and Libs of Tik Tok douchery. I don't think I follow any (openly) conservatives or republican adjacent accounts so wondering if this is Musk's Twitter at work.

 

[Smues]

Are you getting set to 'For you' instead of 'Following'? The website started doing it to me weeks ago but the app didn't until I fucked up and updated it this week. The app used to do that a lot and take you from 'Latest' to 'Home', but it didn't do it every single time you opened the app, and Twitter wasn't actively supporting neo-nazis so it wasn't nearly as bad when it did it in the past.

If you switch to 'Following' you should get just tweets and re-tweets from people you follow, though I'm fully expecting Elon to find a way to ruin that any day now. But if you complain about it you're just an intolerant loser trying to live in an echo chamber. Or something.

 

[Dandy]

“Following” is not giving you only those you follow either. And yes, I am getting a lot of MAGA stuff. However, I believe it is because I have picked up a larger (still small) following over the past few months because I have a local-flavor podcast, and 75-80% of the population here is MAGA. So the algorithm is showing me the things they follow in my feed.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

i just the boards twitter as my twitter and even though almost everyone on the board leans left that just means I get @tekcop or brody retweeting crazy shit. Which don't get me wrong, I love. There was a couple people I had to put on mute because that actually did go off the deep eend though.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Not unfollow though. CXF would never disrespect its supporters!

 

[tekcop]

My feed is also full of random right wing chuds, yeah.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

I find that it happens on any site I go to based on articles I read or conversations I have on sites even if they're totally off my browser. I can be talking about something in Slack and then go on twitter and it'll be showing me shit about it.

 

[muzzington]

I have my news set to South Korea and don't follow as many Americans and my For You tab is actually ok, plus you can curate it a little.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621992665989451777

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625673545731952640

 

[Smues]

Engineers were threatened with termination if they couldn't fix the 'problem,' and the eventual solution was to add a multiplier of 1,000 to Musk's tweets so they were scored higher than any other tweets and 'won' the algorithm basically.

Report: Musk had Twitter engineers boost his tweets after Biden got more views

Musk reportedly gets "power user multiplier" to rank his tweets above others.

arstechnica.com

He also fired an engineer last week who suggested there was nothing wrong with the system and interest in Musk had just naturally been declining. We live in the stupidest timeline.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Dave Davies Tells Elon Musk to Stop Twitter Flagging Kinks Tweets

Dave Davies told Elon Musk to stop Twitter adding a sensitive content warning to every post by the Kinks in February 2023.

ultimateclassicrock.com

@Valeyard

 

[Valeyard]

Explains why my saying saying Aubrey Plaza could be my apeman girl got removed. Bastard.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Explains why my saying saying Aubrey Plaza could be my apeman girl.

OK Roseanne!

 

[Valeyard]

You really got me!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Vale, I want to post with you all of the time. All day and all of the night!

 

[Valeyard]

Psh. I'm a well respected man about town doing the best things so conservatively.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

OK Roseanne!

Hey man, he thought the bitch was white...

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

So did Roseanne!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

So did Roseanne!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1629208789907030016

Sure.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Elon Musk held a 2 a.m. livestream to test a 'new mic' where he spammed listeners with fart and rooster noises for 10 minutes while laughing

Musk tried out a voice-changing software and spammed his audience of more than 42,000 people with a variety of sounds, from farts to roosters crowing.

trib.al

 

[BruiserBrody]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he is "open to the idea" of Twitter buying SVB and turning it into a digital bank. Musk has said he wants to make Twitter a big payments player.

S&P 500 Breaks Final Support; Watch JPMorgan, These Stocks

The major indexes broke decisively below key levels. Here's what to do.

www.investors.com

 

[BruiserBrody]

Elon Musk planning to build a 'Texas Utopia' outside Austin

Musk plans to build a new town for his Texas workers just east of Austin in Bastrop...

www.chron.com

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639351003274424321

Oof

 

[HarleyQuinn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639351003274424321

Oof

For those who need context to understand Kamala's comment...

"A report earlier this month from The Wall Street Journal said that earnings, dated December 2022, which Twitter shared with investors, had noted a 40% decline in revenue. Twitter had adjusted earnings because of it. To put the $11 million in Twitter Blue mobile subs into a revenue context, as a point of comparison, in Q2 2022, the last quarterly earnings statement Twitter released (when it was still a publicly traded company), advertising made up all but $100,000 of Twitter’s nearly $1.2 billion in revenue."

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1640531730984738816

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

 

[Mickey Massuco]

That meme does feel accurate because all the people involved have playground energy.

 

[Tino Standard]

Replacing the Twitter logo in the top left corner of the desktop version with the Dogecoin dog is stupid, but harmless. But now I’m getting tweets from people I don’t follow stuffed into my Following feed too? Fuck all the way off, Elon.