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Elon Musk has a secret list of Twitter VIPs who are getting boosted over everyone else. (www.platformer.news)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"Twitter does have a different standard for celebrities – including Musk himself. For months, the platform has maintained a list of around 35 VIP users whose accounts it monitors and offers increased visibility alongside Elon Musk, according to documents obtained by Platformer."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] Excellent work by @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton for uncovering the fact that Ben Shapiro is on a small list of Elon's Twitter VIPs whose posts are getting boosted above everyone else (including Elon himself).

Yep, that Ben Shapiro.

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting

#Twitter #ElonMusk #Elon #BirdSite #Politics #Mastodon #Fediverse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] @zoeschiffer @caseynewton

It's good work & outrageous but think this misses the real story.

Twitter suppresses most of its users, so they go unheard.

Twitter's not social, democratic, egalitarian, it's anti social, controlled & centralised.

A system for stealthily silenced serfs to flush their thoughts down the Twttr memory hole, while being broadcast at by oblivious loudhailer lords.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@ArtBear @[email protected] @zoeschiffer @caseynewton It also makes it less a form of social media, where people actually have conversations with one another and interact.

Instead, it functions more as a form of broadcast media, where public figures disseminate their messages to the public.

That's why just 25% of users create 97% of all content there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not surprised about AOC. They were hobnobbing at the Metro Gala and she was giggling like a blushed little girl when taking photos with him (Elon). They all have a glass of evening 🥃 in a drawing room and laugh at your silly serf squabbles.

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