“Twitter does have a different standard for celebrities – including Musk himself. For months, the platform has maintained a list of around 35 VIP users whose accounts it monitors and offers increased visibility alongside Elon Musk, according to documents obtained by Platformer.”
@[email protected] Excellent work by @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton for uncovering the fact that Ben Shapiro is on a small list of Elon’s Twitter VIPs whose posts are getting boosted above everyone else (including Elon himself).
Yep, that Ben Shapiro.
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
#Twitter #ElonMusk #Elon #BirdSite #Politics #Mastodon #Fediverse
@[email protected] @[email protected] @zoeschiffer @caseynewton
It’s good work & outrageous but think this misses the real story.
Twitter suppresses most of its users, so they go unheard.
Twitter’s not social, democratic, egalitarian, it’s anti social, controlled & centralised.
A system for stealthily silenced serfs to flush their thoughts down the Twttr memory hole, while being broadcast at by oblivious loudhailer lords.
@ArtBear @[email protected] @zoeschiffer @caseynewton It also makes it less a form of social media, where people actually have conversations with one another and interact.
Instead, it functions more as a form of broadcast media, where public figures disseminate their messages to the public.
That’s why just 25% of users create 97% of all content there.
Not surprised about AOC. They were hobnobbing at the Metro Gala and she was giggling like a blushed little girl when taking photos with him (Elon). They all have a glass of evening 🥃 in a drawing room and laugh at your silly serf squabbles.