Elon Musk's Tip To Fix Your Twitter Feed Is One You Should Already Know

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Elon Musk has accused Twitter of «manipulating» users with its algorithm and even suggested a way to fix the problem. The drama over Musk's Twitter acquisition keeps getting weirder by the day, even as social media users, free-speech advocates and politicians debate over whether Musk's acquisition will be a boon or bane for the micro-blogging platform. Following a $44 billion offer a few weeks ago to buy Twitter, Musk last week announced that he's putting the acquisition on hold, pending details about the total number of spam accounts on the platform.

According to Musk, he will not move forward with the deal until he can verify Twitter's claims that not more than 5 percent of the total number of accounts on the platform are spam bots. Musk also said that the plan to calculate the number of fake accounts is to take a random sample of 100 followers on Twitter and check the total number of fake accounts within that group to deduce the total number of spam accounts. However, critics have already slammed the methodology, saying that a sample number of 100 is not nearly enough to identify the actual number of fake accounts.

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In a series of Tweets over the weekend, Elon Musk claimed that Twitter users are being manipulated by the company's algorithm that decides what they can see on their default feed. He also said that it is important to fix the feed and shared how users can, in a few simple taps, change the default algorithmic home feed to a reverse chronological one to get all the latest Tweets from the accounts they follow. As Musk points out, this can be done by tapping on the 'Home' button at the bottom left corner of the Twitter screen, then on the