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Elon Musk, who we are all hoping will soon own Twitter, has gone beyond talking about free speech on the platform to exposing how people’s feeds are manipulated.
There is now a feature on Twitter that allows you to turn off their algorithm and force the site to just show you the latest tweets in chronological order.
Very important to fix your Twitter feed:
1. Tap home button.
2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.
3. Select “Latest tweets”.You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize.
Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
The purpose of the algorithm, ostensibly, is to take the accounts you follow and create a selection of tweets which you will be most interested in. This is to say, in theory, if a tweet is getting a lot of interaction from other users, it will likely be more interesting to you than a drive-by tweet from someone that no one liked or commented on. This is all fine and well, and does in theory make more sense than simply listing every tweet from everyone you follow in chronological order.
However, under the closed source darkness of this algorithm, these people are able to manipulate your feed, and bury content that they don’t want you to see – from the people you’ve already followed.
Elon also revealed Saturday that his master plan is to own the libs.
Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
This appears to be going swimmingly. Many libs have already been owned, and when banned people pour back onto the site, the ownage is going to be off the charts.
Some people were making a big deal about Elon saying the deal is “on hold” because the company was obviously lying about the number of bots on the site.
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
To me, this just means that Elon is trying to get a better price – and he should get a better price, because there is zero chance that the number of “active users” who are bots is much more than 5%.
Meanwhile, he is for sure upping his meme game.
Stop the war on straws! pic.twitter.com/aHv7uvm17D
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
The straw war is emblematic of larger social issues
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
Great shoes
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2022
We should keep on praying for him.
