Elon Musk planning to hide likes, retweets on Twitter – New York Daily News

Elon Musk is plotting more changes to X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — less than a year after purchasing the platform for $44 billion. Musk on Friday said he wants to make likes, retweets and reply counts harder to see. “Next, we’ll remove all the action buttons with their superfluous interaction counts from the main timeline,” Musk tweeted. “Just view count will show, unless you tap into a post.” PREVIEW: X will remove the interaction counts (likes, reposts) from the main timeline, leaving only view counts. You will be able to see these numbers when you tap into a post. The intent of this is to improve readability. pic.twitter.com/RMbypx3bwh — X News Daily (@xDaily) October 6, 2023 Twitter users are not at all excited about the proposed change, which will prevent them from quickly seeing the engagement and popularity of a post. “Is he shorting his own company?” asked one poster, who received nearly 25,000 likes. Though Musk said the change would “improve readability,” he still plans to keep view counts, his pet metric, visible on the main timeline. Analysts are confused by Musk’s motive for the change, though the mercurial multibillionaire has been hard
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