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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a scene again after acquiring Twitter in full for a value of USD 44 billion. What will change on Twitter?
This acquisition has led to various speculations regarding what Musk will overhaul from the microblogging platform. Musk himself has long been blaring to his 83 million followers on Twitter about what needs to be fixed.
But one thing is for sure, Musk will uphold freedom of speech on Twitter, as he said in his statement, as quoted by us from Cnet, Tuesday (26/4/2022).
"Freedom of speech is the foundation of democracy, and Twitter is the digital city center where many things important to humanity's future are debated," Musk said.
Musk also said that he wanted to make Twitter better than before, one of them by adding new features, also making the algorithm open source, and fighting spam bots and authenticating everyone who uses Twitter.
Here are four changes Musk will be rolling out on Twitter
1. Update content moderation
The do's and don'ts on Twitter is something Musk wanted to do on Twitter long before he revealed his plans to acquire Twitter.
In late March, for example, he posted a poll seeking information on whether his followers believe Twitter protects freedom of expression.
"Freedom of speech is essential for a well-functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter strictly adheres to this principle?" Musk tweeted. The poll ended with 70% of the 2 million respondents answering: "No".
According to Musk, Twitter often censors the opinions of its users. And he's not the only one who has that opinion. But it should also be noted, Musk's tweets so far are also not clean from controversy.
He was once accused of spreading misinformation related to the Corona virus in 2020 by saying, "Children are basically immune to COVID-19". But according to Twitter, the tweet didn't violate their rules because it wasn't very definitive.
Even though he has acquired Twitter, Musk is not necessarily able to influence content moderation policies on Twitter. Because Twitter says the regulatory decisions are not determined by the board of directors or shareholders, and they have no plans to change the rules that are currently in effect.
2. Combating crypto scams
Personally, Musk has been a victim of a crypto scam on Twitter. That is when someone claims to be Musk by using fake accounts on various social media sites and then asking for donations in the form of crypto money.
Musk's account was also one of the accounts hacked to spread bitcoin scams. So it's not strange if later this security aspect will also be the focus of Musk on Twitter.
"Twitter is wasting engineering resources on this bullshit (profile picture showing NFT) while crypto scammers are spreading spam bots in almost every existing thread," Musk tweeted in early January.
Musk has also stated that bots are the most annoying problem on Twitter. Later he stated that if his Twitter acquisition was successful, he would fight the spread of spam bots to death, as well as authenticate everyone who uses Twitter.
3. Releasing the edit button
The tweet edit button has actually been requested by Twitter users for a long time, and until now it has never been realized. In early April, Musk again held a poll on this subject.
"Would you like an edit button," Musk wrote in the poll. He even appeared to have intentionally mistyped his answer choices, namely "yse" and "on". The result? 73.6% of the 4.4 million respondents answered "yse" and 26.4% answered "on".
Musk himself has never expressed his opinion about whether or not an edit button is needed on Twitter. However, Twitter seems to be taking Musk's poll very seriously and seems to be making the edit button a top priority.
4. Unlock Twitter algorithm
Social media users often complain about losing to the algorithms used by social media to control their lives so they spend more time on Twitter, Facebook, and others.
Most Twitter users prefer to tweet chronologically by time. However, Twitter had 'forced' users to view timelines sorted by their algorithm. Although then Twitter gave the option to view the timeline chronologically.
Musk also once suggested making the Twitter algorithm open, or open source, which he again expressed in a poll on March 24 last. 83% of a million respondents agree with the open source algorithm.
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