The Twitter CEO flew his personal jet from the Tremendous Bowl in Phoenix to the Bay Space Sunday night time to complain about his tweet’s comparatively low engagement, experiences Platformer, a e-newsletter from know-how journalists Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton. After Musk ordered his workers to repair the issue, Twitter engineers let Musk’s tweets bypass the platform’s algorithms for figuring out the perfect content material for customers, touchdown Musk’s posts atop customers’ feeds.

Biden’s tweet in regards to the Tremendous Bowl—through which the president cheered for the Philadelphia Eagles as a result of his spouse’s ties to the town—at present has 29 million views. Elon Musk deleted his tweet supporting the Eagles after they misplaced, however the tweet obtained roughly 9 million views, in accordance with Platformer.

On Tuesday, customers on Twitter reported seeing extra tweets from Musk on the platform’s “For You” tab, which shows tweets to customers in accordance with their pursuits, together with from accounts they don’t observe. (The platform’s “Following” tab solely exhibits tweets, in reverse chronological order, from accounts the consumer follows).

The flood of Musk tweets was a deliberate consequence of modifications to Twitter’s algorithm, Platformer experiences. The corporate ordered 80 engineers to work on boosting Musk’s engagement; that crew allowed the CEO’s tweets to skirt safeguards that stop one consumer’s tweets from dominating somebody’s complete feed.

(Musk first joked about his tweets overwhelming folks’s accounts, then mentioned Twitter will make “changes” to its programs.)

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The corporate now not has a communications division to deal with media inquiries. 

Final Thursday, Platformer reported that Musk is more and more involved about his tweets’ low engagement. At a gathering to debate the reason why, one of many firm’s prime engineers tried to clarify that curiosity in Musk was declining on the whole, utilizing a chart from Google Traits monitoring searches for “Elon Musk” as proof.

Musk reportedly fired the engineer on the spot.

Musk’s deputies then instructed engineers that they’d be fired in the event that they didn’t resolve the issue of Musk’s slumping engagement, acoording to Platformer. 

Elon Musk has one of many platform’s most adopted accounts, with 128 million followers. By comparability, Biden’s official Twitter account has 29.5 million followers.

The U.S. president has lengthy irritated Musk, who believes the White Home downplays Tesla’s file in manufacturing electrical autos in favor of legacy automakers like GM.