The Kinks’ Dave Davies pleads with Elon Musk to stop flagging band’s tweets
nme.comThe Kinks guitarist Dave Davies has called on Elon Musk to stop Twitter from flagging the band’s posts as “sensitive content”.Taking to the social platform late yesterday (February 15), the musician shared a screenshot of his previous tweet linking to a Kinks video on TikTok.Beneath the tweet was a notice that read: “We put a warning on this Tweet because it might have sensitive content.”“Dear @elonmusk, would @Twitter please stop putting warning ons on everything from ‘the Kinks’,” Davies captioned his follow-up post.“We are just trying to promote our Kinks music.”Dear @elonmusk would @Twitter please stop putting warnings on everything from ‘the Kinks’.
We are just trying to promote our Kinks music @TheKinks #thekinks60 pic.twitter.com/1sXC4CK4d4— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) February 15, 2023In a second tweet, he clarified: “The Kinks are a brand name.
We have been the Kinks since 1963.”He later replied to a fan: “The word robot should be banned. We got robots running our lives.
At least I’m a Kink and not a fukin robot.”Davies’ complaint comes after a new report suggested that Musk forced Twitter’s algorithm to boost his tweets after being outperformed by Joe Biden.As per The Verge, Biden tweeted on February 12 that he’d be rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles in this year’s Super Bowl, racking up close to 30million impressions.
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