Is there a glitch within the Twitter matrix?
Rabble-rousing SpaceX boss Elon Musk claimed that one thing “very unusual” was taking place on his Twitter after his older tweets did not load.
The alleged bug was delivered to mild Tuesday morning by Tesla superfan Steven Mark Ryan. “Hey @elonmusk, twitter is FKING you,” the sharp-eyed watchdog wrote. “Pricey everybody, SCROLL down on @elonmusk’s tweets & replies and inform me….. DO THEY STOP LOADING????”
Ryan even made a Patreon video detailing the alleged digital disappearing act, together with a Twitter ballot, through which 80% of respondents claimed that Musk’s “tweets cease loading after a brief scroll.”
Twitter reps have but to answer The Put up’s request for remark.
For sure, the centibillionaire was flummoxed by the purported glitch. “Very unusual certainly,” the 50-year-old Tesla boss tweeted in response to the social media Samaritan’s warning.
Certainly, after perusing the automotive magnate’s Twitter, The Put up confirmed on the time of writing that his feed doesn't show any replies which might be older than 17 hours and the sooner tweets solely confirmed up after adjusting the settings to show solely public tweets.
It’s unclear what precipitated Musk’s tweets to vanish into the digital void, nonetheless, Ryan claimed that the incident was deliberate and indicative of Twitter’s lack of transparency.
“Twitter FKs customers with out consent (there’s a phrase for that, isn’t there…?) and doesn’t inform anybody what they’ve achieved,” Ryan fumed in a subsequent tweet. “Customers have NO RECOURSE and most by no means even KNOW they had been — or are nonetheless BEING — FK’d. Not cool.”
The Musk ally added in a follow-up put up, “Hoping quickly after this tweet thread is posted this ‘bug’ is fastened, however I’m not relying on it.”
The controversy comes after Musk claimed that he is not going to undergo along with his $44 billion takeover of Twitter until the social media platform presents definitive proof that lower than 5% of its every day customers are spam and bot accounts.
Two weeks in the past, the aerospace czar estimated that spambots comprised almost 20% of Twitter’s 229 million customers — a whopping 4 instances greater than the determine touted by the corporate.
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