Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and basketball legend Lebron James also apparently made the cut, meaning Twitter's algorithm boosted their tweets.
The list was reportedly developed to monitor engagement on the platform as users interacted
with these power users and study how changes to the website’s recommendation algorithm would effect that engagement. At Platform reports, this past December, Musk noticed his own engagement falling and in response, an engineer created an initial list of a few dozen VIPs to monitor website traffic—but Musk was unsatisfied with what he saw. In February, Twitter rolled out a system to boost Musk’s tweets over everyone else’s and began boosting the tweets of these VIPS, albeit to a lesser extent.
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