Why did billionaire Elon Musk order to change the Twitter algorithm?

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American tech billionaire Elon Musk. Photo: Business Today

The American tech mogul acquired the social networking giant for $44 billion in October last year.

Although he is the owner and owns a personal account with tens of thousands of followers, his post about the American Super Cup match has fewer views than President Joe Biden’s post on the same topic. on Twitter.

Specifically, in the same time period on Twitter, but the US president’s post received more than 29 million views, compared to 9.1 million views of billionaire Elon Musk.

In that context, the American billionaire is said to ask employees to change Twitter’s algorithm. This makes Elon Musk’s post always stand out, and then the viewership suddenly increased by 737% compared to before.

Information about the spike in viewership was discovered by expert Timothy Graham, a senior lecturer in digital communication at the Queensland University of Technology (USA).

He also thinks that this happened because billionaire Elon Musk asked employees to change Twitter’s algorithm.

“It’s amazing that just one night the traffic of billionaire Elon Musk’s Twitter posts increased by 737% and the daily traffic to his personal page also nearly tripled” – Huff Post page (USA) on February 17 quoted Mr. Graham as saying.

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