Best of Dying Twiter: “Elon Musk’s X is preparing to make “likes” private on the social network, in a change that could potentially confuse users over the difference between something they’ve favorited and something they’ve bookmarked.”

“Elon Musk’s X is preparing to make “likes” private on the social network, in a change that could potentially confuse users over the difference between something they’ve favorited and something they’ve bookmarked.”

X should bring back stars, not hide 'likes' | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Elon Musk's X is preparing to make "likes" private on the social network, in a change that could potentially confuse users over the difference between

So . . . his posts weren't getting enough likes?

He’s only eliminating the option of seeing which tweets an account has liked. He’d removing that tab so he can like racist and transphobic posts without getting called out for it.

If he had guts he’d put in numbered downvotes like what YouTube took away.

It's a number people with Twitter blue can point at to ask why they're getting underpaid for impressions, so they're taking that away to obfuscate engagement

It's the same reason YouTube undercounts views for the first few days a video is live

people kept finding the weird shit he liked

Thinks no one will know what an insane nazi racist he is if we can no longer see all the nazi posts he likes.

“You know your retweets are public, right?”

Doesn't matter cuz he'll reply "good point!" to all those posts anyways lol

That’s what I thought too. Lol

That's exactly the reasoning behind it. "Uses will no longer be afraid of backlash from likes"

Little did Elon know he could have just posted on 4chan this whole time.

Musk with his finger on the pulse of a cadaver once again!

man i was so sad that twitter renamed a favorite as a like. it was so long ago now...

Frankly, I don't care what Elon does with Xitter. I shut it down several months ago and don't miss it at all.

Every day makes me happier I left.

Imagine how much more cheaply Elon could have acquired Gab or Truth Social?

I just wanna export my bookmarks, man

Are they not included in the data takeout feature? I guess it'll be links to tweets at best.

Twitter is getting so bad that the app doesn't work when my phone is charging. It's so bad that when you send a tweet, you can't do anything until your tweet/reply sends.

"If we continue making random changes advertisers are sure to come back eventually"

I don't check likes to see if a person is a weirdo, I can just look at who they follow. I wonder if he's going to hide following and followers next?

he's probably gonna end up hiding/banning all the users that aren't him and his goons at this point

I think he pretty much admitted he plans to do that when he said he wants to make Twitter subscription-based "to stop bots" lol

hope he does it soon so i can potentially make a shrine for the website like the one for the damn school days mc at anime expo last year lmao

Hasn't he announced this a few times now?

Just when you thought no-longer-Twitter was already FUBAR... there's "one more thing" 🤦‍♂️

Ugh god this stupid asshole

The obvious move is to make everyone's bookmarks visible, taking immediate effect

REALLY don’t know why BlueSky went with ❤️s and not ⭐️s. (Especially reading in this article that Jack preferred stars.) I hate that I can’t just leave a nod to a post without implying I “love” it.

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