Mark Cuban has Tweeted at Elon Musk for years, typically to criticize the Twitter proprietor over his enterprise selections. However many of the arguments have been one-sided.
Musk has remained uncharacteristically quiet about it till this previous weekend when he determined to reply to one in every of Cuban’s Tweets — unleashing a storm from Cuban.
Cuban was going forwards and backwards with the “Twitter Day by day Information” account concerning the thought of free speech and whose Tweets are promoted on the platform whereas accusing Musk of selecting to “assist and affect the positions he desires to assist and affect.”
Recommendations for enchancment are welcome
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Might 19, 2023
“Recommendations for enchancment are welcome,” Musk mentioned in response, which prompted Cuban to stipulate a seven-point plan for enchancment.
Thanks for asking. IMO listed here are the problems:
“At this time, the For You timeline consists of fifty% In-Community Tweets and 50% Out-of-Community Tweets on common, although this may occasionally differ from person to person.”
And
“What Tweets did the individuals I observe not too long ago have interaction with?
Who likes related… https://t.co/lgJ83KCbhF
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) Might 19, 2023
“It stands to motive that the particular person with the best variety of followers may have the best affect on essentially the most variety of For You timelines,” Cuban identified. “And For You candidates embrace, as acknowledged above, tweets that individuals you observe have interaction with. So who @elonmusk engages with on Twitter has an ENORMOUS impression on what an indeterminable variety of individuals see of their For You Timelines.”
Regardless of asking for his strategies, Musk didn’t reply.
Cuban has beforehand publicly bashed Musk about his selections since taking up the communications big.
Final November, after Musk started altering Twitter’s legacy verification system that gave blue checkmarks to notable customers, the “Shark Tank” star criticized the plan.
“The legacy blue checkmark meant that somebody took the time to resolve that the person would possibly be capable of contribute one thing extra,” Cuban argued. I discovered that precious. It saved me time and since Twitter did an honest job of it, it opened my eyes to new those that I did not learn about.”
Musk not too long ago stepped down from his interim place as CEO of the corporate after appointing former NBCUniversal govt Linda Yaccarino earlier this month.