Elon Musk Blames Increase Of His Tweets In The Twitter ‘For You’ Feed On New Algorithm – SlashGear

Elon Musk downplayed the spike in his tweets on Twitter users’ timelines. As he often does, Musk posted a meme to make light of the situation. The meme involves a woman, labeled “Elon’s tweets,” forcing another woman, labeled “Twitter,” to drink milk from a bottle while holding her by the hair. Musk followed this up with a second tweet shortly afterward: “Please stay tuned while we make adjustments to [the algorithm].”

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625407245218648065

While there is no official statement, many speculate Musk used his position to demand his tweets have more prominence on the platform. Engineers then took this a bit too far, resulting in his tweets having more prominence than intended and making the change too obvious. Of course, a more innocent explanation would involve an algorithm change that results in tweets from more popular accounts receiving heightened prominence in the “For You” section — though if this were the case, a wider variety of accounts would likely have shown up in that section.

As it stands, the increased prominence of Musk’s tweets, and Musk’s tweets alone, has been receiving attention. It is currently unknown how the algorithm will be tweaked and whether the new algorithm will show a positive bias towards the musings of Twitter’s owner. Either way, this is just the latest event in a series of erratic calls Musk has made since taking over the platform late last year, and it’s unlikely to be the last.