Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, posted about how the Twitter algorithm manipulates users in ways they don’t realize.
He noted that it is very important for people to fix their Twitter feeds, and laid out the steps to do so.
The billionaire’s instruction list states “Tap home button” as the first step, and then asks users to tap “stars on upper right of screen”, and finally “select ‘Latest tweets'”.
The self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, who recently made a $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company, before halting said agreement, advised users to switch back and forth and “see the difference”.
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He concluded, saying the message had been brought to Twitter users by the “Illuminaughty”, making a pun on the Illuminati, a name given to real and fictional groups, but whose historical roots come from an Enlightenment-era secret society in Bavaria.
Musk’s instructions basically help users toggle between top tweets and most recent tweets, and one user GermanLetsPlay, found the advice wholly unnecessary, commenting “Thx, Captain Obvious.”
Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey also commented on Musk’s thread saying that the feature isn’t intended to manipulate users but rather to save their time when they’ve been away from the app for a while.
Dorsey concluded that pulling to refresh goes back to reverse chronology as well, with the latest tweet appearing at the top.
Elsewhere, Musk also criticized California’s government litigators and their aggressive vision of corporate regulation. The entrepreneur shared an article and it seems he agrees with the abovementioned being the reason why the state no longer remains a cradle for innovation.
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He commented, “The Golden State is cooking its golden geese”, adding, “Sooo tasty at first, but then no more golden eggs”.
in 2021, Musk had moved Tesla headquarters from the state to Austin, Texas, after complaints about housing difficulties in California.
