This morning on Twitter, users had the funny surprise to discover their timeline invaded by Elon Musk’s tweets. The billionaire mentions a bug in the algorithm and since then everything has returned to normal!
Twitter under the leadership of Elon Musk is very restless. The social network makes surprising decisions such as the launch of Twitter Blue, a subscription that does not work very well, and the detractors of the billionaires are more and more numerous. After firing engineers who spoke about the decline in popularity of his tweets, Elon Musk’s posts took over Twitter this morning.
An omnipresence in the timeline of all userseven those who do not follow the leader of the social network.
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Elon Musk talks about an algorithm adjustment
The Twitter timeline falls into two categories. ” Subscriptions » allows you to see the tweets of your subscriptions and « For you » which displays publications according to an algorithm. Those who went through this default tab had a funny surprise this morning.
Namely publications in shambles of Elon Musk, as if this category was entirely dedicated to him. Users who do not follow the billionaire were literally inundated with his tweets for a short time! The unfortunate were even entitled to Elon Musk’s responses to other publications.
Faced with this situation, even Elon Musk recognizes a problem. From, this bug has been fixed while the billionaire said: “ Please wait while we make adjustments to… the algorithm “.
What if this bug was a request gone wrong?
This funny algorithm bug comes as Elon Musk reportedly fired engineers following a meeting about his popularity on Twitter. The billionaire found a drop in the engagement of his tweetsconvinced of having been shadowban by its employees. The latter have therefore shown him that people are less interested in his content before being returned on the field.
It’s hard not to imagine that following this meeting, Elon Musk demanded to be more present in the user timeline. And that this request caused a bug displaying his tweets en masse to the entire social network. But we will probably never know what caused this funny moment on Twitter!
