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