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Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 17:24:44 JST Mike Masnick ✅
- Casey Newton
- Zoë Schiffer
OMG. @caseynewton @zoeschiffer this is amazing beyond amazing.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
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1. On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking? “This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.” One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning. Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him. Musk did not take the news well. “You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
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2. Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
  
  from Zoë Schiffer
  
  Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max
- Aral Balkan repeated this.
- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 17:36:16 JST Aral Balkan
  in reply to
  @Mr_Teatime Oh my gosh, you’re right, Elon Musk is Homelander.
  I’ll never be able to see him as anything else now.
  Brilliant! :)
  @mmasnick @caseynewton @zoeschiffer
  
  In conversation Friday, 17-Feb-2023 17:36:16 JST permalink
- Mr. Teatime (mr_teatime@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 17:36:17 JST Mr. Teatime
  in reply to
  @mmasnick
  I just watched the latest season of "The Boys", and this looks like a page out of the script for that show.
  Maybe with a bit less laser-eyes-trhough-the-head, but still...
  @caseynewton @zoeschiffer @aral
  
  In conversation Friday, 17-Feb-2023 17:36:17 JST permalink
  
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