- Mark Cuban thinks Elon Musk ought to open up X’s algorithm for consumer suggestions.
- “Unless after all you need to outline it by your self, which is after all your proper,” Cuban mentioned.
Elon Musk needs X’s algorithm to highlight “extra banger content material from (at present) small X accounts,” however Mark Cuban says Musk can do one higher.
“Can you put up the anticipated algorithm supply code, earlier than you implement them? So customers may give suggestions?” Cuban wrote in an X put up to Musk on Sunday.
“Or no less than particulars on how you’ll decide Reputation, Relevancy and Similarity? Again, so customers can provide basic suggestions? Unless after all you need to outline it by your self, which is after all your proper,” Cuban added.
@elonmusk
Can you put up the anticipated algorithm supply code, earlier than you implement them ?
So customers may give suggestions ?Or no less than particulars on how you’ll decide Reputation, Relevancy and Similarity ? Again, so customers can provide basic suggestions ?
Unless after all you need to… https://t.co/MVKZdLKsOG
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) August 25, 2024
This would not be the primary time the “Shark Tank” star has questioned X’s algorithm.
Earlier this month, Cuban informed Jon Stewart in an interview on “The Daily Show,” which aired on August 12, that Musk might need tuned X’s algorithm to his personal preferences.
“When you write an algorithm — I have not written loads, it has been some time — however whenever you write one, you get to set the parameters of what you need to see occur. And he actually has finished that to the issues he likes,” Cuban mentioned, although he did not present proof of Musk manipulating the algorithm.
Entrepreneur @mcuban and @jonstewart focus on X’s international affect and the facility it has given Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/o33mMxNsPo
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 13, 2024
Cuban’s remarks triggered a response from Musk, who mentioned simply days later in an X put up that his platform’s algorithm is open-source, in contrast to different platforms.
“And for those who work together and argue with ‘proper wing’ accounts, which Cuban does loads, the algorithm will assume that is what you need to do and offer you extra of it lmao,” Musk mentioned of Cuban, who is thought to reply to all kinds of accounts on X.
But that wasn’t it for Musk, who went on to name Cuban a large turd in human type in a subsequent put up.
Cuban, for his half, responded to the insult with a collection of coronary heart fingers emojis.
When a number of X customers requested why he was zeroing in on Musk’s platform as a substitute of different social networks, Cuban responded: “Which different platforms have their CEO put up about politics and personally insult their customers?”
Representatives for Cuban and Musk did not instantly reply to a request for remark from Business Insider despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.
