Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced he was making his Twitter account non-public early on Wednesday to find out the level of engagement his tweets acquired.
Musk made the choice after Ian Miles Cheong, a right-wing commentator and common rabble rouser tweeted that he had set his account to non-public on Tuesday and located that he acquired extra likes and views on his posts whereas in non-public mode. He mentioned the outcomes confirmed that the identical tweet acquired extra engagement when his account was non-public than the identical tweet did when it was set to public.
Cheong posted the outcomes of his expertise exhibiting {that a} tweet he posted whereas public acquired 11k views whereas the identical tweet garnered 28.3k views whereas the account was non-public. Musk responded to Cheong’s submit, telling him that the outcomes are “extraordinarily regarding” and introduced he would conduct his personal experiment.
Musk wrote in a Twitter post, “Made my account non-public till tomorrow morning to check whether or not you see my non-public tweets greater than my public ones.” The change means solely Musk’s 127 million followers are in a position to see his posts.
Solely followers of personal Twitter accounts can view the person’s tweets or might want to ship a comply with request to view the posts. When customers join a Twitter account, the posts are set to public by default, permitting anybody to work together with and think about the account’s tweets. To change the account to non-public, the person can change their profile to non-public of their account settings.
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As soon as the account is about to non-public, Twitter customers might want to submit a request to comply with the account and which may then be accepted or denied by the account holder. Nevertheless, present followers will nonetheless have entry to the tweets till and until the account holder blocks them.
Musk appears desirous to please these on the suitable facet of the political spectrum. He expressed support for Consultant Kevin McCarthy’s bumpy bid for Home Speaker, and most lately needed to say sorry for spreading conspiracy theories round former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s brutal house invasion and assault.
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