Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to news in the morning of February 10, Beijing time, Elon Elon Musk recently fired a senior engineer of Twitter on the spot at an internal meeting, only because the engineer told him that his popularity on the Twitter platform was declining.

Musk met with several Twitter engineers on Tuesday to discuss the number of page views of his personal account on Twitter. The number of views on his account has been declining in recent months. Musk had previously arranged for staff to investigate whether his ability to reach users on the Twitter platform was limited by potential problems with the Twitter algorithm.

"this is ridiculous," Mr Musk told employees at the meeting, according to people familiar with the meeting. I have more than 100 million followers, but the content has only been exposed tens of thousands of times. "

The employees then showed Musk internal data and charts from Google trends, indicating that public interest in Musk was waning. According to Google trend data, Musk's popularity peaked at 100 points when he proposed to buy Twitter in April last year, and then fell to just 9 points.

At the meeting, an engineer said that Musk's popularity may have declined because he did not consider the public interest after buying Twitter, and Musk immediately told the engineer that he had been fired. Musk also asked some employees to track how often his tweets were recommended on the site because he didn't believe that the views of his tweets were not affected by internal problems.

Spokesmen for Mr Musk and Twitter have yet to be reached for comment.

Last week, Musk temporarily set his Twitter account to "private" to test whether it could increase the number of views on his tweets. Twitter increased its public view data for the first time in December last year.

On Wednesday, Twitter suffered an outage that prevented several users from posting tweets or private messages. Earlier, Twitter was trying to introduce several new features. There have been many comments that Twitter's service could have problems in the coming months after laying off thousands of employees.

This is not the first time Musk has fired employees on the spot. A few weeks after Twitter was taken private, Mr Musk also fired three employees who criticized him on social media.

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