New chapter of Elon Musk's weird decisions on Twitter. This time, the CEO of the social network stated that Twitter will only display verified accounts in the algorithmic “For You” timeline starting April 15.
In a tweet, ο Musk δικαιολόγησε την movement αυτή λέγοντας ότι αυτός είναι ο “μόνος ρεαλιστικός τρόπος αντιμετώπισης των προηγμένων robot artificial intelligences". Of course he said nothing about the new measure promoting the purchase of verified accounts.
Although Tesla's CEO said the move to ban unverified accounts from recommendations was to counter bots, he mentioned that the "verified" robots that do not subtwothey are people they will appear on the “For You” timeline. So essentially you have to be a verified user, brand, or government official for Twitter's algorithm to recommend you.
Twitter has been trying to push the “For You” timeline for some time despite negative user reviews. The move to make the algorithmic timeline only for verified accounts will also be unpopular.
Specifically, analysts report that Twitter only has 385.000 paying users right now, and the company removes all legacy verification flags from older accounts from April 1st. Thus, the algorithmic timeline will be filled with accounts on payment.
Musk also mentioned that from now on only the verified accounts they will be able to participate in the polls.