Elon Musk continues to be talked about. In a bizarre experiment, the Twitter CEO announced that he has set his account to private to determine the level of engagement of his tweets.
The decision was made through no fault of Russian TV’s confidential attacks on Starlink, but after Ian Miles Cheong (an influencer close to right-wing circles and Trump supporter) claimed that after setting his profile to private i his posts have seen an increase in the number of Likes and views than when it was public.
Cheong released his test results showing a comparison of the data. Musk labeled them as “extremely worrying” and announced that he would conduct a new experiment.
“I’m going to make my account private until tomorrow morning to see if my tweets perform any better” he has declared. For those 24 hours, i Musk’s tweets were only accessible by his 127 million followers, before returning the profile to public.
Apparently Cheong’s statements were true and in fact the number one of the platform said that “this test allowed me to identify some system-level problems that will be corrected within the next week”.
