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The Insider reports:
Twitter is secretly boosting the accounts of 35 VIP users over others, per a new report from Platformer. Managing Editor Zoë Schiffer cited internal documents from Twitter which listed 35 VIP users, who all have their posts monitored and promoted for greater visibility.
Schiffer published 14 out of the 35 names on the list, which included NBA star Lebron James, YouTube star Mr. Beast, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, and Twitter’s own CEO, Elon Musk.
The list also included the pro-Trump, MAGA-friendly Twitter commentator, catturd2, with whom Elon Musk has had many Twitter conversations.
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New: For months, Twitter has maintained a list of VIP users, including LeBron James, Glenn Greenwald, Ben Shapiro, AOC, and Marc Andreessen, that it monitors and gives increased visibility to on the platform. 1/ https://t.co/PnXhb6dvth
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 28, 2023
If Twitter engineers identify segments of the ranking system where tweets from these accounts are “dropping,” they can tweak the code to ensure the tweets are always shown. 2/
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 28, 2023
Turd and Elon having a moment of ecstasy fantasizing about owning the libs. pic.twitter.com/4rLOosgtUK
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) March 27, 2023
It won’t be “glorious” on #AprilFoolsDay if @Twitter removes @verified status from all who don’t pay — likely to be the vast majority of ~419K verified accounts.
Instead, Musk’s expectation that celebs + consumers will pay for a key free feature will be exposed as delusional. pic.twitter.com/cqN066PYw6
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) March 27, 2023
Elon Musk said Twitter is now worth about $20 billion, according to an email he sent the company’s employees — a significant drop from the $44 billion that he paid to buy the social network in October. https://t.co/UguitAMz8j
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 26, 2023