Recent user reports suggest a significant change in the content visibility algorithm on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Users have observed a drastic drop in post views and engagement, with some noting as much as a 10-fold decrease in visibility. For example, one user reported only 634 people saw their post in 44 minutes despite having 403,000 followers, and another noted only 485 views in 1.5 hours. Concerns have been raised about potential shadowbanning and lack of transparency, despite promises from the platform's owner, Elon Musk, to enhance clarity around content moderation practices. The situation has sparked widespread speculation, including unverified claims that only views from verified accounts are now being counted.
Well, @elonmusk did say engagement farming would be punished by the updated algo. I haven't seen any reduction in engagement, actually I've seen a pretty decent boost. If others are ... gotta wonder why. 🤔 https://t.co/jHBMxv9Yqv
Why have Twitter's view counts suddenly shrunk by 10x their original number?
Why is X acting weird today? Views are way off Anyone else noticing this?
Something wrong with the view count on X? https://t.co/BU89dFQKu8
Did something change with the algorithm in the past few hours? It seems like views have collapsed by about 2/3 or more. Many people have noticed and are DMing me. Someone sent me a DM that only verified users are being counted now in views. I am not sure if that is true.
Post clearly being artificially suppressed by Elons pro ruzzian platform. 485 views in 1.5 hours and not growing at all. Boost it up, so they don’t silence us🤝 https://t.co/UEX7r3GOSW
X is still shadowbanning and suspending without reason Elon mentioned giving us more transparency here But, we haven't seen it yet Lets get this trending
What’s going on with the view impressions?
it feels like X just changed the post views counting algorithm
How the hell do only 634 people see this post in 44 minutes when I have 403,000 followers? WTF is going on X? Is this the free speech you promised @elonmusk? https://t.co/qeNWxdH7Xt
Have you noticed that people are getting far more desperate for engagement? https://t.co/5RZDWPs9cq
Is it just me or did the LinkedIn content algorithm change pretty substantially earlier this month? Cc @justmazer