Performance statistics have become an obsession for Elon Musk. The new owner of Twitter implemented the View Count system in December. The idea is to show the number of views of a post. The only problem, the low rank of his tweets made the billionaire very upset.
During a meeting on Tuesday, February 7, an engineer paid the price, says the American media Platformer. As one of the company’s last two technical directors, he was unable to provide the answers his new boss wanted to hear and explain the drop in popularity of his tweets. Therefore, the employer fired him.
A drop in Google trends
What unhinged the leader was the hypothesis put forward by the engineer: a banal disinterest in himself. To advance such a thing, the now former employee relied on Google trends. They show that Twitter’s surprise acquisition announcement in April 2022 propelled “Elon Musk” into the top search terms on Google.
The valuation of interest proposed by Google Trends website indicates a popularity peak between April 24 and 30, 2022. Elon Musk has never been so popular. But focusing on the last twelve months, it is possible to see a sharp drop. April’s score of 100 has now fallen to 10 globally since January 22. This rating is even lower in the United States, the country with the largest number of Twitter users.
Source: BFM TV
