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Chris TrottierYou know why people could only see Elon Musks tweets?
It's because President Biden's Super Bowl tweet got more views than Elon Musk's Super Bowl tweet.
You can't make this up 🤣
https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system
If I wrote a fictional novel about what's happening with Twitter right now, publishers would reject it for being too fanciful and unrealistic.
80 people!
80 people were tasked with building an algorithm to maximize Elon Musk's reach!
And it resulted in an unusable Twitter experience!
I called it. Twitter engineers built this absurd "relevancy" algorithm purely so they wouldn't get fired.
People ask me, "Why do you post so much about Twitter?"
It's actually because I post a lot. But not just about Twitter, also Meta and TikTok and Reddit and Mozilla too.
Look at my recent feed.
Nevertheless, it's so hard *not* to post about Twitter when Elon Musk does so much ridiculous things!
And of course people like those posts because there's never been anything more surreal and silly than what's happening with Twitter right now!
Amanda Carson@atomicpoet Not gonna lie I read the latest Platformer post and my jaw hit the floor because I honestly wasn't prepared for even Elon to do something like that.
Chaoddity@atomicpoet its also highly relevant to the whole landscape of the internet. Twitter was, despite being a private enterprise, being treated like a critical piece of infrastructure on the internet. Everyone had one in their profiles.
Its death IS worth talking about and learning from. There is a lot to unpack. Mistakes were made.
Its death IS worth talking about and learning from. There is a lot to unpack. Mistakes were made.
DrAliMonty@atomicpoet "there's never been anything more surreal and silly than what's happening with Twitter right now"
My memory of a certain orange narcissist as US president might disagree on this one. But surreal, silly, and scary.
My memory of a certain orange narcissist as US president might disagree on this one. But surreal, silly, and scary.
Robert A. Hill@atomicpoet What a waste of technical talent.
Economics is Science@atomicpoet wait until he monetizes that capability. I can think of a lot of polititians and world players that can afford to pay handsomely for the Twitter Elite plan
Jason B 🧙♂️
djohngo@atomicpoet This whole thing has a very Douglas Adams feel to it.
System IV, Building K@atomicpoet hfs, how does psychosis like this scale
/potts/kevin@atomicpoet My heart goes out to those 80 people. It is straight abuse.
3rd Snowman of the Apocalypse@kevinpotts @atomicpoet Self inflicted at this point. Too hard a fanboi to speak out, get fired like so many others.
Steve Torrente@atomicpoet I hope he's not buying any of them horses.
Beto in Beta@atomicpoet more reason to leave that old platform behind.
Darwin Woodka@atomicpoet there are that many developers left? Huh.
Sam Wade@atomicpoet @ncweaver In fairness, if that's as accurate as the view count, it could mean 0.
lachlan slowly taming rust
Democracy Dies in Dumbass@atomicpoet Narcissist be like....
S. Z. Attwell ☕️💻@atomicpoet orrrrr he could try be actually interesting to follow
Malinux@atomicpoet Yea, I think we all know by now.
Go Outside@atomicpoet I blocked him a long time ago.
MurphysicalViolet Beauregarde has a factory of workers slaving over their laptops to find the golden ticket.
At last one worker finds the golden ticket and saves all of their jobs.
"Chief Twit, we aren't forcing everyone to see your tweets for days!"
Twitter Death Cult
Cosmo@cspam no one ever said humpty dumpty was an egg…
Parker Molloy
Max Leibman has moved!@atomicpoet No shade on the reporting, which is great, but I question the phrase “investigating various hypotheses.” It’s hard to take the language of science seriously when the result has been preordained by a narcissistic tyrant!
Dani 🍁@atomicpoet That many people to change algorithms for one needy guy. Incredible.
Dr. Sean Munger@atomicpoet No, they'd reject it because nobody would want to spend $8 to read it. 😜
Cyber Yuki@atomicpoet We're in the post-Trump era. Once you know an incompetent boss full of himself, you know them all. 🙃
Sir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonI've said it before and I'll say it as long as I have to see his dumb face.
Old Man Mike@atomicpoet my god, what a baby.
Lynette@atomicpoet He's a big spoiled baby. I'm going to filter him out of my timeline. So tired of his egotistical bs. I feel sorry for the people who work for him, at least those who feel they have no other option.
ShayRSF@atomicpoet I’ve blocked him so hopefully it stays that way 😂
JenX@atomicpoet Can someone please check on his remaining employees and see if they are okay? Do they need food, water, or their head examined? Seriously though, what keeps them there?
Thought Police@atomicpoet Any computer programmer worth his salt knows how to fix this--add 20 million to his counter and call it a day.
Syd@tstrelow @atomicpoet the real feature.
joe•iuculano 
A petulant little poopoo
Lt.Cpl Хуёвый Пчеловод@atomicpoet And you know what would have happened had Musk gotten more impressions than Biden?
He would have gloated that he has more reach than POTUS and maybe HE should be in the White House...
AI6YR Ben
Danica Niki Radisic@atomicpoet next thing you know, Musk is going to run for POTUS just to increase his Twitter reach. Wait, I've see this somewhere before... 
@atomicpoet that’s hilarious. I mean, Biden *is* the president, in theory at least 29 million people should pay attention to what he says…hahaha meanwhile I have Elon muted and/or blocked, need to check.
Shannon@atomicpoet It's ridiculous and childish... but if people stay on Twitter, they really need to block his account. He shouldn't get to force people to see his words. It's a way to take back control of the Twitter algorithm. Force it to show you what you want.
@wasootch You won’t take back control of the algorithm.
Mike Fraser@atomicpoet @wasootch Science fiction idea. What if the Twitter algorithm was a sentient AI and instead of Musk owning Twitter, Twitter secretly owned Musk.... Muhahaha. Ok back to serious conversing.
@mike @atomicpoet In a way, Twitter does own him psychologically… he exists for it and gets his sense of self-worth from it. So, it’s a great observation.
@wasootch @atomicpoet Ya that's the vibe. I thought it would be a great story. An AI manipulating a billionaire, which as you say is, sort of what's happening. He's in a physicological/tech induced feedback loop.
@mike @atomicpoet Yes. Indeed. That AI is actually doing that to all Twitter users and some are more or less susceptible to it. The more followers you have, the more the the rewards of course... which then makes the temptations more and more difficult to resist. Musk is so addicted to it and his own life is so empty he has nothing to help him fight against the addiction (despite being so wealthy). So in a way the AI owns all the users, but him especially. And now he thinks to control the AI.
@wasootch @atomicpoet I certainly was for a time. Every like, retweet and new follower was an endorphin hit. Pavlov was in full effect. Musk is a full on addict, where 9 million engagements aren't enough, because it will never be enough.
@mike @atomicpoet Yep. Exactly. You can't satisfy your life that way.
CrowjanePay no attention to the AI behind the curtain, I am the all powerful Musk.
@Crowjane @mike @atomicpoet The AI has made him think that. But now the AI has been disappointing him. His views and interactions are down. So now he's trying to force the AI to do what he wants. It's him trying to have some control over life... without understanding there is no control. He can't force everyone to respect him or to worship him.
@atomicpoet I’ve blocked so many on there that my feed does now show me what I want… local news and politics and things that are from a group I’m part of. So it works to a certain extent. I have only blocked right wing influencers, yet my feed has not been taken over by left wing influencers. So the algorithm was trying to feed off my rage. I am here more than there, but doing this has been an interesting experiment over there.
@atomicpoet I watched a video about #TheBoys yesterday, and yeah the parallels between Homelander and Elon Musk are kinda striking :D. Homelanders biggest wish is to be loved/popular, he does a hostile takover of Vought and gets rid of all the managers, and anyone who he thinks hates him, that also means getting rid of personel in surveillance, and have his bootlicker friend manage it, very understaffed. This was way before the twitter takeover was even thought about
chef 😎@atomicpoet
Wow, Elon really is a big cry-baby.
😅 😂
Mark@atomicpoet The last dumb Elon tweet I saw that hit my feed had over 104M impressions. I wondered if that was real or are Twitter engineers now simply making up numbers for his feed and are grossly exaggerating out of spite.
Rob Williams@atomicpoet He's such a precious little soul isn't he...
Olly 💀💀@atomicpoet #ElonMusk literally has the same vibes as a child taking his football home because he lost against his friends. So petty