Elon Musk's Twitter Bounty and Dreams
TL;DR
Elon Musk appeared to offer a $1 million bounty to help find the source of "botnets" on Twitter. A user identified a negative feedback loop in Twitter's algorithm that hurts accounts if blocked. The user said by taking control of several accounts, botnets were able to suppress certain accounts by mass blocking, unfollowing, and reporting them. Musk plans to increase the amplification of tweets from verified accounts, in a bid to boost subscriptions to Twitter Blue and revenues.
- Elon Musk appears to offers $1M bounty to 'convict' Twitter 'botnets' Business Insider
- Elon Musk Revives Old Banking Dream in Pursuing $250 Billion Twitter Valuation The Wall Street Journal
- Did Elon Musk Add a Pop Sound to Twitter's 'Like' Button? Snopes.com
- Elon Musk Offers Million-Dollar Bounty on Botnet Masters Times Now
- Musk open-sources Twitter code, but it won't fix his mess Interesting Engineering
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