But this is DU, so oh well.

This has got to be fake

but looking at what Elon DOES approve of, that is pretty fucking laughable

I’m indifferent. What I don’t get is people taking selfies with a dirty plate in front of them. That really is gross

good LAWD

When anyone eats out - we are all treated to a close up of their food.

Like food. People call it chasing the algorithm because apparently if you post the right content it will go viral. Not sure why it’s an issue on Twitter because nobody is getting paid so it must just be for clout.

To try and post stuff of interest?

Seriously, Xitter and Eloon can go ( whatever ) themselves. Account deactivated and soon to be deleted. (I haven't used it in forever anyway)

I get all the cat pictures I want on FB anyway. Except Siwsan's and SalmonChantedEvening's which I get here. (those are important!)

And food pictures I just scroll on by, so I guess the "engagement farming" Eloon's worried about in the OP isn't working very well on me.

Engagement farming is a collection of inauthentic practices used on social media to artificially inflate engagement metrics on a user's posts or profile. These metrics typically include likes, comments, followers, and shares. Engagement farming goes beyond simply trying to get more likes and comments.

And how does one post something to "artificially" inflate your engagement metrics?

People either like your stuff or they don't.

Nothing about this makes any sense to me.

Granted, I'm not a social media person.

Engagement farming is a collection of inauthentic practices used on social media to artificially inflate engagement metrics on a user's posts or profile. These metrics typically include likes, comments, followers, and shares.

The whole thing is inauthentic.

It's right there in the name: media. It is MEANT to attract attention!

will post a picture of like a cute cat or dog, or food because those are topics a lot of users enjoy and repost, but below the cute pictures are often links to promote something totally unrelated to pets or food to sell their products. IMHO I think it's just a more sophisticated form of spam. If a thousand users repost pictures they want to share with their followers that's free advertising for the person who added the links to to their sites.

I figured it out because a few of my reposts got taken down by FB and in trying to figure out why I saw the added links in the posts.

And turned that engagement into posting threads being honestly mean to Phoney Stark and his buddies.

It sounds like something Ego Musk would do if he was following a popular elitist foodie thread that turned around and bit him on his botoxed nose.

Haele

So healthy...

I can find no trace of that supposed tweet from Musk on his own Twitter timeline. A few Twitter searches showed only a few small accounts posting the identical "Musk" screencap in the OP, down to the same time and view count. Nothing shows up on Google. If it were genuine, I'd expect vastly more fulmination and at least some quote-tweets.

So all we have is a supposed screencap posted by an obscure but very active Threads account and no Twitter URL that can be followed up and checked.

In the absence of any corroborating evidence, I'd suggest a bunch of you have been hoodwinked.

Now, the test for DU is whether this reply just sits here relatively unnoticed, or do others check it out rather than believing whatever's posted, especially if it's about a well-deserving hate figure?