Musk: Conventional media to become irrelevant on Twitter

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 12:19 PM PT – Monday, December 5, 2022

Elon Musk touted the new improvements to Twitter’s algorithms, which he predicts will reduce the number of spam accounts and bots.

In a series of tweets, Musk said that he is improving the intelligence of Twitter in order to increase the share of useful communications and reduce the noise.

The intelligence of this hive-mind will improve significantly as signal/noise, effective cross-linking of tweets & speed of tweets all improve

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 4, 2022

He added that because of this, corporate media outlets are becoming irrelevant.

The more Twitter improves its signal to noise ratio, the less relevant conventional news becomes

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 4, 2022

Musk conducted a poll on Twitter about spam accounts and 62% of the respondents said that the number of bots has already decreased on the platform.

Major Twitter system improvements were implemented this week to drop hammer hard on spam/scam accounts.

Taking just past 24 hours, does it seem like there are far fewer?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022

The CEO says he will also improve cross-linking of tweets, which will make communication faster.