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Elon Musk says news organizations should only tweet 10 stories a day, after he tweeted more than 100 times over the weekend

Pete Syme   

Elon Musk says news organizations should only tweet 10 stories a day, after he tweeted more than 100 times over the weekend
  • Elon Musk said on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that news organizations should limit tweets.
  • The interview was done after Musk stripped The New York Times of its blue tick on Twitter.

Elon Musk said news organizations should limit their tweets to 10 stories a day during an interview on Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," which aired on Monday but was recorded earlier this month.

During the interview, Musk discussed his decision to $4. Carlson asked Musk about a $4 at the time in which he described the Times' feed as "the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea."

Musk told Carlson that this is because The Times "tweet every single article, even the ones that are boring, even ones that don't make it into the paper."

"If you were to follow @NYTimes on Twitter, you're going to get barraged with like, hundreds of tweets a day, and your whole feed will be filled with NY Times," he added. "What are the big stories of the day? Put out like 10 or something – some number that's manageable."

According to the social-media tracker $4, the newspaper tweeted an average of 110 times a day over the last two weeks.

But over the weekend, it only tweeted 92 times – compared to $4.

The billionaire's posts included updates on Twitter and SpaceX, as well as several short replies and two memes.

"I was the most interacted-with account on the whole system before the acquisition, and so I clearly know something about how to use Twitter," Musk told Carlson, referring to the period before he acquired Twitter in October.

Last month, Musk overtook Barack Obama to become $4, five months after buying the company.

According to a $4, Musk's account is one of $4$4 by Twitter. NBA star Lebron James, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, and US politician Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are among the others.

The VIP users' tweets reportedly bypass a Twitter algorithm that prevents too many posts from a particular user from being viewed.

Musk previously $4 another report from $4 that he ordered staff to boost his tweets in February. One Twitter engineer was reportedly $4 in response to his questions about why his view count had dropped on Twitter.

Some users have previously $4 in their feeds – which he $4. $4 are willing to pay $4.

Musk is known for his erratic late-night tweeting style. In an interview with the BBC this month he said he thinks he should stop tweeting after 3 a.m. "$4," he said.

Insider contacted Twitter for comment. The company responded with an automated message that didn't address the inquiry.



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