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Casey Newton Feb 15, 2023

Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.

Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

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Jesse Cail Feb 15, 2023

@caseynewton @zoeschiffer I really appreciate the continued reporting. Given the quote at the end of the article from an employee, why is anyone still working there? I realize that has a complex answer, but they're less Twitter employee and more Elon staff at this point no? What's the critical mass number of remaining employees for Twitter to truly become unstable, crash & burn?

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@jesse_cail @caseynewton @zoeschiffer Some may truly be stuck, e.g. H1Bs without a new sponsoring org especially now that everyone's firing people. But the sad fact is there's no shortage of Elmo simps who crave attention just as badly as he does, and still don't understand he's never, ever going to love them back. *Or* give them a horse.