The boss of X has not yet finished imposing its style. In several messages posted on the social network, Elon Musk announced new changes coming to the platform.
It will become more difficult to “ratio” someone on X/Twitter. Indeed, during the day of March 7, Elon Musk posted several tweets announcing changes to Twitter statistics. The owner of the site shared his desire to eliminate the number of “likes” and “retweets” from the general flow of the site. By default, only the number of “views” accumulated on a post will be visible at first glance.
A “cleaner” timeline
It is not a question here of simply making these engagement statistics disappear, but just of no longer making them appear on the main “timeline”. It will always be possible to see this information by clicking on a particular message. As an explanation for this change, Musk simply states that he “been dying to do this for a year“, because it makes the experience “cleaner“.
These changes, which are not yet deployed and which may never be given Musk’s tendency to promise revolutionary changes all day long, would therefore force users to swipe left to “like” a post , to the right to answer it and to press and hold on it to bring up the other interaction possibilities.
A less relevant X/Twitter?
Quite widely criticized by most of the responses under Musk’s message, this idea could also largely reduce Twitter’s interest. Beyond the impact that this could have on the little game of “ratio” (which consists of amassing more “likes” on a response to a post by contradicting another), it will also be impossible to determine at a glance what message generates engagement or what wild conspiracy theories are spread on the platform.
If the trend is towards the disappearance of toxic statistics, like the like counter on Instagram or the red thumbs on YouTube, Musk does not even follow through with this idea since this data will in reality always be available (and always notified to Internet users), just less accessible than before
On the other hand, messages risk being deprived of the context that this type of information could provide to gauge the legitimacy or virality of a post. Salvation will perhaps come from the community’s notes, who knows.
Source : Gizmodo
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