Elon Musk has today shared a couple of drastic changes coming to Twitter’s “For You” tab, that may not entice non-verified users.
Starting April 15th, Twitter will only show the tweets from verified accounts on For You tab, instead of showing anyone’s as now . Also, the ability to vote in polls is limited to verified accounts! Musk says this latest change is to combat the bots on the platform.
Recommending Only Verified People
If you’re following the saga of Musk’s acquisition of Twitter , the only major roadblock that made Musk extend the drama are bots. While the ex-CEO Parag Agarwal has been arguing the count to be less than 5%, Elon Musk and his team argue the number to be way bigger than that.
Anyhow, he took over the company and now enacting policies to counter these bots. One among these is the latest changes coming to For You tab, where Musk says only the tweets from verified accounts will be shown to users!
Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations. The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle. Voting in polls will require verification for same reason. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023
