Twitter has announced it will no longer show the device a tweet was posted from- be it an iPhone or an Android device or even Twitter Web in the latest changes on the microblogging platform.
Twitter owner Billionaire Elon Musk confirmed this in a tweet he shared from Pubity captioning it “Hallelujah!!”
“Twitter has removed the ability to see which device a tweet comes from. (Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Android),” a Twitter handle called ‘Pubity’ said in a post, which was later retweeted by Musk.
Musk had last month said that the company will “finally cease adding what device a tweet was made on,” calling the function a “waste of screen space & compute.” Responding to a user’s tweet in November, he wrote, “And we will finally stop adding what device a tweet was written on (waste of screen space & compute) below every tweet. Literally, no one even knows why we did that.”
Another thing the billionaire announced was that Twitter will make it easier to see tweets from just “those you follow, as well as other tweet curations”.
Last week, Musk resumed selling its Twitter Blue premium offering, which gives users a blue verification badge by their names, following a weeks-long pause because some subscribers were using the paid service to impersonate well-known accounts.
A user now needs to pay $8 a month to avail of the Twitter blue service. The service provides a checkmark in a blue badge next to their profile pictures and will be able to edit tweets, among other perks.
Musk is also taking a subtle shot at Apple Inc. as part of Twitter Blue’s relaunch. The company will charge users $11 per month if they subscribe through the Twitter app for Apple’s iOS, an effort to recoup fees collected by Apple for in-app purchases.
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