President Musk doesn't want you to post pictures of food on Twitter

[peregrinus]

Accounts posting pictures of various food items including their own meals will be marked for engagement farming and automatically suspended.

Post by @emmjaygames

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/-he-knows-that-taking-pictures-of-your-food-is-like-the-backbone-of-social-media

[Mosby]

1. Ibthinkbthis isnt true.

But this is DU, so oh well.

[irisblue]

2. I had a multi thread discussion about how to brine turkey

This has got to be fake

[Skittles]

3. I am irritated by food pics

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

[peregrinus]

4. If it's a meal and the plates are untouched

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

[Skittles]

5. I just don't give a fuck what people are eating

good LAWD

[womanofthehills]

15. It's crazy on Facebook

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

[Coventina]

6. WTH is "Engagement farming?"

[peregrinus]

7. It's where you post content that you know will boost views

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.

[Coventina]

9. I'm even more confused! Isn't that the sole purpose of social media?

To try and post stuff of interest?

[RandomNumbers]

21. so, no more cat pictures on the internet??? Oh no!

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.

[CrispyQ]

8. Per google:

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.

[Coventina]

11. Perplexing! Social media is inauthetic in its very nature!

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.

[magicarpet]

10. FYI -"Engagement Farming"....

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.

[Coventina]

12. How, pray tell, does one be "inauthentic" on social media?

The whole thing is inauthentic.

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

[BlueKota]

20. I think its because some users on social media

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.

[haele]

14. Maybe some organization used food pics at get lots of engagement -

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

[Fish700]

19. It's like when people here post click bait titles that don't tell you what the thread is about.

[QED]

13. Maybe Leon is pissed because of the blowback from the pic of the "meal" of McD's on T's plane.

So healthy...

[John Farmer]

16. I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of this term in the coming months and years.

[John Farmer]

17. Are oatmeal pictures allowed?

[Emrys]

18. I suspect Threads is as prone to misinformation as Twitter is, and possibly DU in this case.

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?