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Twitter Boosts Elon Musk's Tweets 1000x After Urgent Request · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Twitter has deployed code to artificially boost, Elon musk's
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  tweets by a factor of 1,000. After the billionaire,
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  complained about the lack of Engagement.
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  His posts were receiving. Now, according to a report from
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  Casey Newton at platformer after a tweet about the Super Bowl
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  received less engagement than President.
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  Joe Biden's musk took to slack to issue an urgent request for
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  help from Engineers late on Sunday musk addressed his team
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  and person and warned them that they would all lose their jobs.
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  If the engagement Judgment issue was not resolved and by Monday
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  Twitter had deployed code to quote, Greenlight Oliver musk's
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  tweets, and artificially boost them, allowing his post to
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  bypass Twitter's filters designed to show people the best
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  content possible this power user multiplier now applies only to
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  musk and the code allows musts account to bypass Twitter
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  heuristics. That would otherwise prevent a
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  single account from flooding, the core ranked feed now known
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  as quote for you. Now the report also suggested
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  that the changes made to musk's tweets would be walked back at
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  least in part in that the artificial boost supplied to his
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  count remain in place although the factor is now lower than
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  1,000 musk's handful of tweets on Tuesday, reportedly generated
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  or 143 million impressions which is on the high end of the recent
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  average. Now musk's views on the issue
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  which first came to light, after platformer broke the news that
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  he fired one of two remaining. Meaning principal Engineers of
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  the company after the engineer told him.
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  That views on his tweets were declining.
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  Highlights attention familiar to almost anyone who has ever used
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  a social network. Why are some posts more popular
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  than others? Why am I seeing this thing?
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  And not that one. Now Engineers for services, like
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  Tick-Tock and Instagram can offer partial high-level answers
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  to these questions, but ranking, algorithms make predictions
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  based on hundreds or thousands of signals and deliver post to
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  millions of users, make it An almost impossible for anyone to
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  say with any degree of accuracy, who will see it.
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  Now must view, counts, fluctuate, wildly, and the most
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  obvious reason for this discrepancy, is that people
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  think some tweets are better than others.
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  However, the ranking algorithm doesn't necessarily work like
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  that and musk has reportedly grown.
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  Obsessed with the amount of Engagement.
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  His posts are receiving The Twitter CEO flu is private jet
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  back to the Bay area on Sunday night to demand answers from his
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  team. After the social network lost
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  out to the Kansas City Chiefs, and musk lost out to President
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  Joe Biden, and the meeting resulted in a system.
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  Being built to ensure that musk and musk alone benefits from
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  previously, unheard-of promotion of his tweets to the entire user
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  base within a day. Musk's tweets, dominated the
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  Twitter feed with over 90% of his followers now seeing his
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  tweets according to An internal estimate and the report from
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  platformer highlights, the lengths that social media
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  influencers and celebrities are willing to go in order to
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  protect their online reputation and standing.
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  Musk's case demonstrates. How even the most high-profile
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  people are not immune to concerns about their popularity
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  and reach on social media. Twitter's decision to
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  artificially boost. Musk's tweets is just one
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  example of the tension that exists between social media
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  platforms and their users with many users feeling that their
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  Not being seen by the right people or are even being
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  surpassed by some other people first.
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  Some reason and the algorithms used by social media platforms
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  are designed to make predictions based on hundreds of thousands
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  of signals and deliver post to millions of users, making it
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  almost impossible for anyone to say with any degree of accuracy.
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  Who sees what? Now Elon musk's tweets are of
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  interest to many people as he is a billionaire, entrepreneur, who
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  is made Headlines with his Innovative products and
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  outlandish statement. Sometimes musk is known for his
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  tweets, about space exploration, electric vehicles and other
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  topics, but it's important to note that the changes made to
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  musk's Twitter account by Twitter Engineers, only affect
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  him and not the rest of the platforms users.
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  However, it does raise the question on whether this is a
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  fair practice to allow one user to have an unfair advantage over
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  others. It's important for social media
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  platforms, to maintain fairness and transparency and for all
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  users, Have an equal chance at having their post seen by
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  others. Twitter has yet to release a
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  statement about the changes made to musk's account, but it will
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  be interesting to see how the public and other is users react
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  to the Views. Now, while it may seem like a
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  small issue, it's important to remember this social media plays
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  a significant role in our daily lives and how we consume and
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  share information. Any changes made to these
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  platforms, can have a significant impact on society as
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  a whole? Now, the recent news regarding
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  elon's Twitter account in the changes made, Made to it raises
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  important questions about social media, platform fairness, and
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  transparency. While it may seem like a small
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  issue to you or me. But the way that this
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  information is shared throughout social media has a giant impact
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  and it's crucial that these platforms, maintain this Level
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  Playing Field remains to be seen on how Twitter will respond to
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  this issue but it's something that users in the public should
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  keep an eye on in the coming days and weeks.
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  And here's some big news for Slur Tesla has announced a
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  recall of nearly three hundred and sixty three thousand
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  Vehicles. United States equipped with the
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  company's full self-driving, FSD software after the national
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  highway traffic safety administration.
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  The nhtsa identified, the driver assist program as a crash risk.
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  The recall notice affect several models including the 2016 to
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  2020 3 Model S, and model X 2017 to 2023 model 3 and the 20 82,
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  2023 model. Why the recall follows nhtsa's
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  concerns about for specific situations that can occur on the
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  road including navigating intersections.
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  During a stale yellow light, the duration of stops at a stop sign
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  when the intersection is clear, how the vehicles adjust speed,
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  while driving in areas, where the speed limit changes, based
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  on roadsides and how the cars change lanes to exit, eterne
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  only lane. Now while documents filed
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  regarding the recall, Do not mention specific incidences,
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  Tesla has committed to a free over-the-air software update to
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  address the issues identified by nhtsa.
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  Now, nhtsa has been investigating Tesla's driver
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  Assist Technology for several years focusing, specifically on
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  a number of incidents that which Tesla vehicles equipped with
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  autopilot, Crescent is stationary, emergency vehicles
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  in the recall notice was issued after nhtsa requested additional
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  information on a Tweet by Elon Musk stating the Tesla might add
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  an option to remove the nag prompting drivers to keep their
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  hands on the steering wheel. Last February Tesla issued, a
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  similar recall for its beta software package to disable an
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  autonomously govern rolling stop.
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  But this recall is more detailed.
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  The announcement also comes on the heels of an eight car.
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  Pileup in the yearbook Buena island tunnel where a Tesla
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  unexpectedly braked setting off a chain reaction pile up while
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  the Call does not specifically address complaints about Phantom
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  breaking incidents. Nhtsa has been known to be
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  investigating such issues. The OT a update is expected to
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  be deployed in the coming weeks according to Tesla.
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