The Twitter View Count feature isn’t for everyone… including Elon Musk. A special meeting was set up to cover his tweets. The engineer’s response was son Immediate dismissal Last December, Twitter launched another new feature, View Count, which allows everyone to view the number of views of a post directly below the latest post. For some, this allows them to publicly showcase their popularity, while for others, it can be a bit frustrating, especially when the tweet reach is lower than the number of views. followers. Enough to piss off more than one Twitter user, starting with… Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is concerned son Number of views
Thus, with the help of the views counter, each user can observer the number of times the tweet was shown. According to Elon Musk, this feature is intended to demonstrate how Twitter is more alive than it seems.car Over 90% of Twitter users read but don’t post, reply or like.” According to the American magazine Platformer, on Tuesday, February 7, a meeting was held on Twitter, during which Elon Musk asked for an explanation about the low reach of his publications. With over 128 millions followers, the American giant would say he was surprised to see some of his tweets rack up only a few tens of thousands of views. In response, one of the engineers present tried to demonstrate, in particular using various Google Trends data, that people were simply tired of hearing about Elon Musk. Twitter boss would have fired him son engineer on site.
Twitter is rolling out Number of views so you can see how a lot of times The tweet has been spotted! This is fine for video. Show how a lot of more live twitter than it may seem like over 90% of Twitter users read but don’t tweet reply gold like like this public stock. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 22, 2022
Is Elon Musk’s reach limited by Twitter?
The American billionaire would also ask his staff to dedicate some of their time to analyzing how his various tweets are being recommended to Twitter users. One of Elon Musk’s last tweets with the most impressions (over 64 millions), is a message containing one and unique character. Hence to think that Elon Musk is being censored. son own network…
. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2023
Meanwhile, Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz son parties to demonstrate the inefficiency of the view counting system. Through a personal account, therefore completely inaccessible to the public and not counting the slightest subscriber, Taylor Lorenz still managed to gain dozens of views of his tweets in a few minutes.
In case you need proof that view thinks on Twitter is not accurate: I have blocked, private check with ZERO followers for reporting purposes. I just posted those two tweets. Check view considers. One tweet posted on my private account less than 1 min. back already has 59 views peak.twitter.com/cNVRRWCZ4u
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) February 9, 2023
This raises some questions about the relevance of the view counting system on the one hand, but also about the effectiveness of personal accounts…
