Elon Musk is defending himself against claims made by the media that he uses his Twitter presence to promote himself. In an effort to quell rumors about him, the popular platform’s Leader fired back at those accusations and defended his conduct.
“Several major media sources incorrectly reported that my Tweets were boosted above normal levels earlier this week,” the CEO said on Friday. “A review of my Tweet likes & views over the past 6 months, especially as a ratio of followers, shows this to be false.”
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“We did have a bug that briefly caused replies to have the same prominence as primary Tweets, but that has now been fixed,” he said.
“For example, despite having ~40M fewer followers back then, I have yet to come anywhere close to this gem,” He joked that he was going to buy Coca-Cola in a tweet that included a picture of the stats.
He explained the use of a unique mechanism created to ensure that all of his tweets get maximum visibility in response to an inquisitive Twitter follower who inquired about his original tale that was published in Publisher.
“The ‘source’ of the bogus Platformer article is a disgruntled employee who had been on paid time off for months, had already accepted a job at Google and felt the need to poison the well on the way out. Twitter will be taking legal action against him,” he said.
As a survey revealed that the majority of people wanted him out as CEO of the well-known social media network, Elon Musk recently announced his desire to part ways with it. Notwithstanding this setback, the parties parted ways amicably because they both intend to keep working together in the future.
Elon Musk announced in jest on Twitter on Tuesday that Tesla has changed its CEO. there was a cute dog instead of the customary CEO photo opportunity!
“The new CEO of Twitter is amazing,” he said, adding in another tweet, “So much better than that other guy.”
Should Elon Musk stay or should he leave? was the question he put on Twitter in December, setting up a Twitter frenzy. Opinionated individuals soon expressed their predictions for the famed CEO of Tesla, and the poll quickly became popular.
Should I resign as Twitter’s CEO? Musk posed the query in the now-completed poll. “I will follow this poll’s findings,” More than 17.5 million votes had been cast as of Monday morning, with 57.5 percent of respondents favoring his resignation as CEO and 42.5 percent favoring his retention.
Separately, Musk tweeted, “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.”
Elon Musk changed his position on the survey results following a heated debate. The discussion revealed who actually had an impact on the study’s findings.
“Hey @elonmusk, it’s unwise to run a poll like this when you are now deep state enemy #1,” said Kim Dotcom on Twitter. “They have the biggest bot army on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts all voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this poll again. The majority has faith in you.
“I’m hoping that Elon did this poll as a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots,” he added. “The dataset for this poll will contain most of them. Some good data-mining and he could kill them all in one go.”
“Interesting,” Musk responded.
One Twitter user suggested that because they are basically paying customers, only people with the coveted “Twitter Blue” checkmarks should be able to vote in polls.
“Blue subscribers should be the only ones that can vote in policy related polls. We actually have skin in the game,” Unfiltered Boss said on Twitter.
Musk replied, “Good point. Twitter will make that change.”
The CEO query came amid criticism of Musk and Twitter following the platform’s announcement on Sunday. “saying that it was going to ban users from being able to promote their other social media accounts on other platforms,” The Daily Wire reported.
“Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post,” one of the now-deleted tweets said.
Musk eventually apologized: “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.”
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” the company noted in a statement. “Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.”
