For some months now, Elon Musk has been making a severe criticism of the operation of Twitter, arguing that he does not agree with the way they run this social network and proposing options on how it could be better (from his perspective).
The attention that the billionaire put on the social network began when Donald Trump, Twitter removed his account, arguing that he was inciting hatred and breaking with the platform’s internal policies.
At that time Musk began to make public his criticism of the way the social network was managed, guarding the freedom of expression of users.
Rumors of Musk’s intention to buy Twitter began at the end of last year, but in recent weeks the figures were moving and when they reached 42,000 million dollars, it seems that this intention began to be seen seriously, which in the end was closed in $44 billion.
What does Musk want?
As many will have noticed, Elon Musk is not the typical millionaire owner of technology companies; he in fact he is someone obsessed with order who has a much more open and truly global vision of the world.
Something that distinguishes his companies is that they all seek to connect people, whether through tunnels, electric cars, satellite Internet or now through one of the most popular social networks in the world.
open algorithms
This is something that I personally am very curious to see how it will be done. Musk has repeatedly criticized the famous algorithms that social networks use to limit the reach of content, and in the case of Twitter one of the changes that he will promote will be to make the algorithm of this platform Open Source Code, so that This way is more accessible and not just exclusive to a few. This change could be a revolution in social networks and could give way to decentralized platforms as is currently the trend in the Metaverses.
If this movement materializes, it would generate very strong pressure, mainly on Facebook.
edit tweet button
All users at some point have searched and sadly realized that there is no button to edit an already published message, but everything seems to indicate that in the near future we could have this button already available.
New content policies
This is undoubtedly the most controversial issue, since over time social networks have become much stricter in terms of the content that they allow to circulate through them, an example was what you mentioned above from Donald Trump’s account.
This is the point on which Elon Musk has placed the greatest emphasis, arguing that greater openness and freedom are needed for users to express themselves.
There can hardly be many changes in this regard, because it is not something that only the platform itself decides, international pressures and local governments considerably move the policies that govern content on social networks.
Personally, I am very excited about this change of ownership, because it also represents a change of course in all senses, although only time will tell if it was for the better or if it will end up burying the social network that in recent years has not achieved grow at the rate of its competitors.
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