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Elon Musk and his diminutive capacity to receive contradictions are back in the news. This week it became known that The head of Twitter fired an engineer for telling him that his popularity had dropped, when asked the cause of the fewest impressions in your account.
The information was provided by the specialized portal Platformer. The name of the person fired was not released.
As Platformer points out, for weeks Elon Musk has been concerned about the number of people who see his tweets. He even put a lock on it for a while to test if it would increase his audience size.
Thinking that everything could be caused by a failure in the social network, he gathered his engineers, looking for solutions.
“This is ridiculous,” Musk said, according to Platformer. “I have over 100 million followers and only get tens of thousands of impressions.”
One of the engineers responded that Musk’s popularity might be waning. In the words of the outlet, but not the employee, “public interest in his antics is waning.”
The group showed Musk internal data on interactions with his account, along with a Google trend chart: in April 2022 it was at 100 as a score, at the peak of its popularity. By February 2023, it stands at 9.
Outraged, Musk told the lead engineer: “You’re fired, you’re fired.”
“Platformer withholds name of engineer, in light of harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees,” pointed out the specialized portal.
The most controversial changes on Elon Musk’s Twitter
After the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, for 44 billion dollars, there are several changes that the platform has undergone. After executive layoffs and almost half of the campus, set out to charge 8 dollars a month for the blue verification badge.
In addition, it reopened the doors to conservative accounts, like those of former president Donald Trump and his followers, who have been suspended since the events of January 6, 2021 in Washington.
Also removed restrictions on false theories about COVID-19.
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Several advertisers left Twitter after these latest modifications, considering that they would be frowned upon for being linked to Elon Musk.
Even, according to a survey by the COVID States Project, initiative of universities such as Harvard and Rutgers, it was revealed that almost 9% of people left Twitter since October 2022.
Things are not good on Twitter, that this week suffered several failures on its platform. Elon Musk follows his own, despising the work of the experts.
