The other side’s candidate/party will absolutely push for their voters to leave for a different platform. No one will put up with it. This could drop users by 25%+.
Elections have become about turning out the base. The base is already at maximum engagement on Twitter. Any TFG fan already follows him and sees everything he says. There’s no real undecideds/middle ground any more or at least its way less important.
Are Adelson/Koch types really going to directly pay Musk billions of dollars? Like here’s a blank check? I really doubt that.
Right, like wouldn’t an evil $100billionaire also be willing to pay way above FMV for any large number of media and tech properties under the same logic? Everything from CNN to Duolingo fits the same logic.
I mean, what you’re saying is basically what Musk has already done. He tried to back out but failed and by most accounts it has been a disaster. The FMV of the company is probably a fraction what it was. Do we expect an even bigger idiot to come along and pay even more than Musk for something with an even lower FMV to try it again?
Platformer can confirm: after Musk threatened to fire his remaining engineers, they built a system designed to ensure that Musk — and Musk alone — benefits from previously unheard-of promotion of his tweets to the entire user base.
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.
This is loser shit of unprecedented dimensions, but also… @here in Slack at 2:30am to fix this shit? This dude has to be on some sort of experimental black-lab stimulants. Like the stimulant version of carfentanyl, shit that would make police officers blast off into space if they touched it wearing gloves.
Chad Biden licking an ice cream cone, giving a loving shoulder hug to his long term wife while they both watch his engagement numbers rise.
Virgin Musk sadly pressing delete while coked out models dance around him and a voice whispers in his head ‘there isn’t a single person here I don’t pay’
