Elon Musk has planned to remove device labels from tweets

Elon Musk has planned to remove device labels from tweets

 The world's richest person Elon Musk has planned to do away with device labels from tweets. Currently, if a person tweets using an iPhone, the bottom of the tweet will show a 'Twitter for iPhone' label, and if the user tweets from an Android smartphone, it will show a 'Twitter for Android' label.

In one of the biggest changes coming to Twitter, Musk has decided to democratize all tweets, making no difference between iPhones and Android users.

Musk reportedly said in a tweet, "Part of today will be turning off the “microservices” bloatware. Less than 20% are actually needed for Twitter to work! And we will finally stop adding what device a tweet was written on (waste of screen space & compute) below every tweet.”

Musk purchased the social media giant last week. Subsequently, he brought many changes to the social media platform. Recently, Musk apologized to users “for Twitter being super slow in many countries.” He reportedly wrote on Twitter, “Same app in the US takes ~2 secs to refresh (too long), but ~20 secs in India due to bad batching/verbose comms. Actually, the amount of data transferred is low.”

He also dissolved the top leadership of Twitter by firing CEO Parag Agrawal and other top executives as well as laying off about 3,700 staff and asking the remaining workers to return to office full-time. He also overturned Twitter’s permanent work-from-home policy. He also said that the social media company was losing more than $4 million a day. 

Recently, reports also emerged that Twitter Inc. suspended the $8 subscription program. Last week, Musk also tweeted that all accounts engaged in parody must include "parody" in their name. He also said that Twitter would ban accounts that impersonate others.

Twitter Support recently tweeted, “To combat impersonation, we've added an 'Official' label to some accounts.”


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