“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.”
@ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml 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
@ajsadauskas@aus.social @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml @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.
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.
@ArtBear @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml @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.
