Elon Musk doesn’t like explanation about reduction in engagement on Twitter posts, fires employee, says report

Billionaire Elon Musk seems to be not happy with the reduction in engagement on his posts on Twitter. The CEO of Twitter seems to have also fired an employee when he did not like his explanation over the issue, said a report in The Verge.

The Twitter boss seems to have been trying several new things to increase engagement on the platform or hike the number of his followers. These include making his account private for a day and other initiatives.

This comes as several users have complained that changes to Twitter have reduced their reach, the outlet said.


Over the issue, Musk called a team of engineers and advisors to understand the reason behind the reduction in engagement.

While calling the issue "ridiculous", Musk, as per The Verge report, said that I have over 100 million followers, and I am only getting tens of thousands of impressions.



An engineer seems to have offered a possible explanation that the interest of the public over his tweets is reducing.

The data from Google Trends was shown by the engineer. It showed that in comparison to last April, when his popularity was at a peak of 100, he is currently at a score of nine.

The professional seems to have told Musk that there is no evidence to suggest that Twitter's algorithm was biased against him.

Musk seems to have not taken the explanation well and told the engineer, "You're fired, you're fired", as per the outlet.

The billionaire has instructed engineers to track how many times his tweets are recommended, an employee told the outlet.

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