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CTOnews.com, Feb. 15 (Xinhua)-- Elon Elon Musk has Twitter engineers working overtime on Sunday to change Twitter's algorithm and give priority to displaying his tweets so that his tweets can be seen by more users, Platformer reported.

Musk was dissatisfied with the fact that his participation in tweets supporting the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday was significantly lower than that of US President Joe Biden's tweets in recent weeks, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter and documents. Musk ordered Twitter engineers to work overtime to modify the algorithm to increase the priority of their tweets by 1000 times. Late on the night of the 12th local time, Musk asked to increase the influence of his tweets, and about 80 people were transferred to the project. Musk's deputy also told the engineering team that they would "lose their jobs" if they did not do so.

On Monday afternoon, Twitter deployed the code to automatically "give the green light" to all Musk's tweets, which will bypass the recommended timeline filter to ensure that they rank above others in the timeline.

On Tuesday, Musk tested the feature and posted a "forced to drink milk" tweet depicting "Elon's tweet" being forced into "Twitter". As of press time, the tweet had more than 130 million views and 1.3 million likes.

That morning, Musk seemed to admit that he had increased the views of his tweets and wrote: "Please continue to follow, we are in the process of, er." the algorithm is adjusted. "

A large number of Twitter users complained that the day after the Super Bowl, they saw a lot of Musk's tweets.

Last week, Platformer also revealed that Musk had fired an engineer at Twitter after the engineer told Musk that the decline in the number of views on his tweets was partly due to a general decline in interest in Musk.

CTOnews.com noticed that Musk had just posted a series of tweets saying that Twitter's new CEO (the picture shows a dog) is very good, much better than that person, he is very good at arithmetic, but also has a lot of personality, he is the perfect person for the job.

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