"My 100 Million Followers, So Why Are the Views Like This?" Musk's Complaint

US Media "Engineers Called... Expressing Frustration"

Elon Musk, CEO of the American electric vehicle company Tesla, did not hide his dissatisfaction with the decline in views on his tweets.

On the 10th (local time), the US IT media Platformer reported, citing sources inside Tesla, that "Elon Musk switched his Twitter account to private for one day last week."

This action was taken to directly check the number of views on his tweets, in response to complaints from some right-wing political accounts interacting with Musk that "the reach of tweets has decreased since Twitter made some changes."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Platformer reported that Musk called engineers and company advisors, expressing his frustration by saying, "I have over 100 million followers, but the exposure is only tens of thousands. This is ridiculous."

It added that engineers checked whether his account's reach was being limited but found no biased aspects in the algorithm.

They also interpreted that "(Musk's dissatisfaction) might be due to the fact that Tesla's stock price is rising while the views on his tweets are low."

According to internal data shown to Musk by the engineers, Musk scored the highest popularity of 100 points in Twitter's search ranking in April last year, but now it is known to be only 9 points.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk [Photo by Reuters Yonhap News]

Recently, Tesla's stock price recovered to $200 after three months. This is interpreted as a result of a rebound buying spree due to overselling and expectations that sales will increase due to price cuts on electric vehicles.

On the other hand, Twitter has experienced more errors since Musk's acquisition. On the 8th, a widespread outage occurred that made sending tweets impossible. Platformer cited a study result stating, "Since Musk's acquisition, Twitter usage in the US has decreased by 9%."

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