12 February 2023

How Small is Elon Musk's Penis Anyway?

In his latest bit of dysfunctional management, Elon Musk fired a principal engineer at Twitter for telling him that his engagement numbers had fallen because people were less interested in him.

I get that Musk, like the rest of the flying-monkey snowflakes, is insisting that Twitter is somehow "Shadow Banning" conservative content.

The fact that the numbers tell a different story should not be a firing offense.

Then again, a narcissistic psychopath should not be managing anything bigger than a Fotomat:

For weeks now, Elon Musk has been preoccupied with worries about how many people are seeing his tweets. Last week, the Twitter CEO took his Twitter account private for a day to test whether that might boost the size of his audience. The move came after several prominent right-wing accounts that Musk interacts with complained that recent changes to Twitter had reduced their reach.

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.)

Is it just me, or do Elon Musk's interactions with his employees resemble the bunker scene from downfall?

This, along with reports that Musk has basically instructed Twitter staff to ignore its consent degree with the FTC does not bode well for the social media platoform.

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