As Twitter Continues to Break, Musk Seeks Answers About Declining Engagement on His Tweets

Look, should you advised me that Twitter goes to flip all the pieces round, and Twitter Blue take-up will improve considerably, and it’ll be income optimistic, and Elon Musk will win out as soon as once more, I wouldn’t dismiss that outright.

Nevertheless it’s getting tougher to see the sunshine on the finish of the Twitter 2.0 tunnel, which appears to getting narrower and narrower the extra Elon and Co. proceed on with their plans.

This week, reviews have emerged that amid a serious outage, and numerous explorations of considerations that the app is just not working prefer it ought to, Elon Musk pulled a gaggle of engineers apart to as a substitute speak about engagement on his personal profile as a substitute.

As reported by Platformer:

“That is ridiculous,” [Musk] mentioned, in accordance to a number of sources with direct data of the assembly. “I’ve greater than 100 million followers, and I’m solely getting tens of 1000’s of impressions.”

Musk was so incensed by his declining engagement charges that he demanded an investigation, so as to get the underside of why individuals weren’t interacting along with his each thought like they used to.

Now, in fact, this might even have been an exploration of broader algorithmic points – whereas utilizing himself because the case in query, Musk is also exploring a much bigger concern with tweet attain and engagement, which might impression all customers.

However evidently, it was a really private concern for Massive E.

“Workers confirmed Musk inside knowledge relating to engagement along with his account, together with a Google Traits chart. Final April, they advised him, Musk was at “peak” recognition in search rankings, indicated by a rating of “100.” Right now, he’s at a rating of 9. Musk didn’t take the information properly. ‘You’re fired, you’re fired’, Musk advised the engineer.

The story each appears loopy and completely believable, particularly given the way in which that Elon has targeted on his Twitter profile as a proxy for his general recognition – which it undoubtedly is just not.

In the newest Tesla earnings name, Elon was asked about how his questionable tweets could be impacting Tesla’s popularity.

“Let me test my Twitter account. Okay, so I’ve received 127 million followers and it continues to develop very quickly. That means that I’m moderately in style. May not be in style with some individuals. However for the overwhelming majority of individuals, the comply with account speaks for itself.”

In fact, many individuals are following Elon Musk for various causes, and your follower rely is just not indicative of, actually, something. However Elon appears to have intertwined his ego along with his engagement numbers, which is probably going, partly why he purchased the platform within the first place, whereas it’s additionally why his current engagement declines are a serious concern to him.

However Twitter has far larger points than Elon’s whims.

The app suffered a significant outage this week, and is experiencing ongoing issues together with load drop-outs, incorrect error messages, points with the brand new Twitter Blue, and extra.

And amid all of this, Twitter additionally wants to cash. Far more, in step with Elon’s ambitious targets.

It’s arduous to see extra individuals trying to pay Twitter to use the app when it doesn’t at all times work, and it’s tough to maximize engagement when customers are struggling to undertake fundamental capabilities.

So, yeah, in fact, Elon might nonetheless flip issues round, and Twitter’s numerous initiatives and experiments might all come good, and Elon may simply be a genius and we will’t all see it.

However undoubtedly, I can’t see it, not within the case of Twitter 2.0.

And with extra advertisers turning away, and subscription take-up sputtering, absolutely Elon is aware of that his personal minor gripes are usually not the main target at this stage.

It doesn’t look like a path to final success. Possibly it’s all part of the method. However the ‘course of’ appears much less calculated daily.