Jeopardy! star James Holzhauer shades famous billionaire after major changes rock social media platform
JEOPARDY! star James Holzhauer has hit out at Elon Musk.
The 32-time winner criticized the billionaire tech mogul and Twitter owner for “complaining” about “manipulation” on his own social media site.
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Jeopardy! star James Holzhauer has hit out at Elon Musk on TwitterCredit: ABC
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The 32-time winner slammed Elon for ‘complaining’ about the ‘manipulation’ on the social media platformCredit: Reuters
James tweeted: “Elon Musk is complaining about extreme levels of Twitter manipulation bruh.”
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He spoke out after Elon announced new restrictions for Twitter users.
The billionaire revealed today he would be temporarily limiting the number of tweets people can read in a day on the popular social media platform.
Elon – who took over Twitter in October – said that verified accounts are being limited to reading 6,000 posts a day.
Unverified accounts can only read 600 posts a day.
Furthermore, new unverified accounts are limited to 300 posts per day
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said Twitter had imposed the “temporary limit” to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation”.
Elon has previously slammed artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using the platform’s data to train their large language models.
Many logging onto Twitter were met with a message that read “Rate limit exceeded.”
The hashtags “Twitterdown” and “RIP” Twitter began trending as frustrated users were faced with the message.
The change prevented them from seeing new tweets in their feeds, sending out their own tweets, and even sending a DM.
Elon isn’t the only person James has blasted on social media.
Last week, he slammed ABC for shortchanging The Chase compared to Jeopardy!
James called out the network for not scheduling his game show to air directly after Jeopardy! Masters did in May.
The blog BuzzerBlog first posted on Friday about how The Chase’s ratings are up.
They tweeted: “Most interesting thing was the giant increase for #TheChase.
“It was up 25% in the 18-49 demo from the last episode and up nearly 60% in total viewers.
“It’s still a shame that The Chase wasn’t paired with Jeopardy Masters.”
JAMES SPEAKS OUT
James, 38, then buzzed in, agreeing that The Chase – which airs at 9pm Eastern on Thursdays and kicked off its third season on June 29 – got a raw deal.
The 32-time Jeopardy! champ snarkily implied that since he’s a Chaser on The Chase and won the $500,000 Jeopardy! Masters crown, doing so would have been a no-brainer.
He quote tweeted: “If only those two shows had some commonality that would suggest a shared fanbase.”
The Chase is a quiz show that sees teams of three contestants attempt to win money by challenging a quiz expert- or Chaser.
This season sees fan-favorite quiz professionals as Chasers on the show, including Brad Rutter, James Holzhauer, Victoria Groce, Brandon Blackwell, and Buzzy Cohen.
Sara Haines joins the contestants as the show’s host.
Ken Jennings was formerly a Chaser but stepped down as he was Daily Double booked.
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He shared his frustration on TwitterCredit: Twitter/James_Holzhauer
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James slammed ABC last week for not scheduling his game show The Chase to air directly after Jeopardy! MastersCredit: Getty
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He will appear as a Chaser on the showCredit: ABC
