I have noticed a large difference in the past couple of days in my timeline. Every time I load the page there are 4 Elon tweets in the top 100 (with Elon being the top entry every single time). There are also an increasing number of ads in my timeline, every 4-5 tweets has an ad.<p>I finally had to mute Elon with the terrible memes and too many tweets in the feed. I could have sworn I did this a couple of months ago, so I'm surprised I had to do it again.<p>His tweet around "absolute block versus percent block" made sense to me, but even so every single time I load twitter his tweets are at the top of my page, it's too much and I wouldn't be surprised if he does have a factor enabled due the changes I have seen recently.
He's not exactly being coy about it[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625368108461613057?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625368108461613057?s=20</a>
This story lacks the back story. Musk was prompted to investigate engagement issues about 3 weeks ago by a bunch of people doing the “take your account private” test and nearly all of them reporting increased engagement when private. Musk did it for a day, I personally did not see his result. About 5 days ago he posted about the team fixing two major engagement bugs. Point is he has had them focused on engagement for at least a couple of weeks.
Elon, if you're reading this: this is the one true path to monetization. Prioritize tweets like ads: a bidding war per timeline. They'll say they hate it, but they'll pay through the nose.
He did it because he wanted his tweets to be seen more. Jealousy is a baseless interpretation.<p>I'm sure the author wouldn't want people insulting her over unhinged articles or other obvious things.
Lots of things get claimed hiding behind "sources say", "reportedly" and other weasel words. These aren't the Pentagon Papers where anonymity is essential to one's continuing to have a heartbeat. While it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, without some actual evidence, its office gossip muckraking of the type you used to have to purchase a tabloid to read about.
The first half of the title might be verifiable and interesting fact; the second half is lazy, drivel, mind reading; makes the journalist seem like they care more about riding todays hype train than about reporting facts
The source this article mentions doing the "reporting" has been single-mindedly focused on attacking Elon Musk's reputation ever since he took over Twitter and made it clear he was investigating the prior management's moderation decisions. They've been hunting down any and every disgruntled ex-employee they can looking for dirt and they have no appetite for any positive stories.<p>I'd take any of their claims with a huge grain of salt.