Article 68WAM Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

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This story is based on interviews with people familiar with the events involved and supported by documents obtained by Platformer.

At 2:36 on Monday morning, James Musk sent an urgent message to Twitter engineers.

We are debugging an issue with engagement across the platform," wrote Musk, a cousin of the Twitter CEO, tagging @here" in Slack to ensure that anyone online would see it. Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem. This is high urgency. If you are willing to help out please thumbs up this post."

When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Musk's tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe...

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