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Elon Must is sad
| One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.
Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine.
| Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.
Musk did not take the news well.
“You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
| GOOD
| For a minute I thought this came straight from an Onion article
| funny enough, big corps are copying him, they're firing everyone, you know, all those instagrammers depicting their daily routine at google not working
| >>5a317c it makes sense, a lot of those companies make stupid amounts of dough. Can pay a bunch of people to copy if statements and still be in the green
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| For weeks now, Elon Musk has been preoccupied with worries about how many people are seeing his tweets. On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?
“This is ridiculous,” he said. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”