Elon Musk reportedly had his own tweets prioritized out of jealousy

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&#x27;m surprised I had to do it again.<p>His tweet around &quot;absolute block versus percent block&quot; made sense to me, but even so every single time I load twitter his tweets are at the top of my page, it&#x27;s too much and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if he does have a factor enabled due the changes I have seen recently.

He&#x27;s not exactly being coy about it[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1625368108461613057?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;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.

I appreciate him being a constant source of memes and drama, though I&#x27;d rather he doesn&#x27;t remove what little usefulness Twitter still holds.

Simply block him and he won‘t show up in the timeline

Elon, if you&#x27;re reading this: this is the one true path to monetization. Prioritize tweets like ads: a bidding war per timeline. They&#x27;ll say they hate it, but they&#x27;ll pay through the nose.

What a pitiable man.

He did it because he wanted his tweets to be seen more. Jealousy is a baseless interpretation.<p>I&#x27;m sure the author wouldn&#x27;t want people insulting her over unhinged articles or other obvious things.

Blocked him, so it doesn&#x27;t matter how hard he tries to get his tweets higher up fro my point of view at least.

Lots of things get claimed hiding behind &quot;sources say&quot;, &quot;reportedly&quot; and other weasel words. These aren&#x27;t the Pentagon Papers where anonymity is essential to one&#x27;s continuing to have a heartbeat. While it wouldn&#x27;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 &quot;reporting&quot; has been single-mindedly focused on attacking Elon Musk&#x27;s reputation ever since he took over Twitter and made it clear he was investigating the prior management&#x27;s moderation decisions. They&#x27;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&#x27;d take any of their claims with a huge grain of salt.