Elon Musk turns investigator to find bug with private account Twitter settings, here's what he found

Ever since Elon Musk took charge of Twitter, he has been implementing and experimenting with a bunch of new features and tools for the platform. From introducing Twitter Blue to bringing different badge colours to profile, the micro-blogging platform has rolled out several updates recently.

And by the looks of it, we can expect Twitter to introduce more features. The social network's CEO, Musk, had recently turned his Twitter profile private to test the micro-blogging platform's algorithm.

Musk locked his profile for 24 hours to test the impact of account privacy on the reach of private and public tweets. Before going private on Twitter, Musk informed his 127.7 million followers on the micro-blogging platform about the experiment he was conducting in order to not alarm them.


"Made my account private until tomorrow morning to test whether you see my private tweets more than my public ones," Musk wrote before turning his Twitter profile private.

Exactly after 24 hours, the Tesla chief unlocked his profile and shared his initial understanding of the experiment with the world.

The 51-year-old said that the test helped him identify some issues with Twitter's system which the social network plans to address by next week.

"This helped identify some issues with the system. Should be addressed by next week," Musk informed.
Musk, who bought Twitter in October for $44 billion, had previously replied on a Tweet thread detailing how setting an account on Twitter private can "vastly improve" its reach.

"Something is wrong," Musk had replied.
Soon the tech billionaire made the announcement that he was turning his account private to check the claim.
A few Twitter users reported that views and interactions for tweets were up to five times higher when the accounts were turned private.

Meanwhile, Twitter recently announced that anyone can now appeal their account suspension, a move comes days after the social network announced that it will take "less severe actions" against user accounts that break its rules, asking them to remove controversial tweets and move on.