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Twitter Today: Elon Musk Fired A Senior Engineer For His Declining Popularity/Blocks Ukrainian Army From Using Starlink To Fly Drones

Feb 10, 2023

This is Peak paranoia. Holy Shit.

Platformer: For weeks now, Elon Musk has been preoccupied with worries about how many people are seeing his tweets. Last week, the Twitter CEO took his Twitter account private for a day to test whether that might boost the size of his audience. The move came after several prominent right-wing accounts that Musk interacts with complained that recent changes to Twitter had reduced their reach.

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, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

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, they told him, 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. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)

Dissatisfied with engineers’ work so far, Musk has instructed employees to track how many times each of his tweets are recommended, according to one current worker.

It has now been seven weeks since Twitter added public view counts for every tweet. At the time, Musk promised that the feature would give the world a better sense of how vibrant the platform is. 

“Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions,” he tweeted.

Almost two months later, though, view counts have had the opposite effect, emphasizing how little engagement most posts get relative to their audience size. At the same time, Twitter usage in the United States has declined almost 9 percent since Musk’s takeover, according to one recent study.

So Elon learned how Twitter works after losing $32 Billion and realizing he’s no longer trendy. Now that’s a tough day for a guy whose EGO drives everything he does.

The Co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, said he was a fraud for attention. He’s more interested in credit and attention than delivering in any capacity when it comes to Tesla. Steve also seemed a little pissed about the extra 50k he had to drop on his wife’s Tesla for additional Cameras, but I think you’ll get the point through his anger over that 50k. LOLZ.

Woz is SO pissed about that $50k WOZ called Elon a cult Leader.

There’s something to that. I only get called a pedophile/death threats from Convoy dorks, J0rdan Peterson fans, and Elon fuck bois.

Fuck Bois like Ian Miles Cheong.

Ian didn’t tweet about Elon blocking Ukrainian troops from accessing Starlink to use drones to protect themselves from Russian artillery, though. Elon’s fuck bois don’t do Elon dirty.

Elon is getting pressure from Putin because Ukrainians are whooping Putler’s bald ass to the moon. This is the second time Elon has threatened Unkraine’s national security, but he’s interfering in an international war.

Ukrainian people are getting crushed by Russian artillery every day, and that’s the kind of thing that governments cite to take businesses away from people in the best interest of National Security.

It’s despicable shit but predictable.

https://twitter.com/vote4robgill/status/1623821540268580864?s=20&t=SMkOC4NbacvF2GI84XJdNg

Not being popular kills guys like Elon. I give this app three months and SpaceX 6 months before Joe Biden owns it.

Dean Blundell

Dean Blundell is a Canadian radio personality. Best known as a longtime morning host on CFNY-FM (The Edge) in Toronto, Ontario. In 2015 he was named the new morning host on sports radio station CJCL (Sportsnet 590 The Fan). Dean started his career in radio in 2001 and for nearly 20 years been entertaining the radio audience. Dean’s newest venture is the launch of his site and podcast which is gaining tremendous momentum across North America.

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