Tech billionaire, Elon Musk, has announced plans to stop showing the number of likes and reposts on X formerly known as Twitter.
Speaking recently at Morgan Stanley’s technology, media, and telecom conference, the billionaire said that X will soon hide metrics for reposts, likes and replies from the timeline to clean up its appearance.
Musk has already discussed deleting the analytics from X’s main page.
X, formerly known as Twitter, wants to enable user payments on its network among other financial functions.
Achieving these characteristics requires obtaining licences in many U.S. states.
Since acquiring the firm, Musk and the issue of engagement metrics like likes and reposts have been at odds.
According to reports, Musk put pressure on programmers to modify algorithms to increase the visibility of his postings.
This was reportedly done after some of his posts received less interaction than others, such as the tweet that President Joe Biden made during the Super Bowl.
The billionaire stated in a message available only to subscribers last year that he intended to eliminate “all the action buttons with their superfluous interaction counts from the main timeline,”
“That is definitely happening. just view count, as a proxy for the other metrics, will show on the timeline,” Musk wrote on X.
We earlier reported that Elon Musk has been sued by four former executives, including current CEO Parag Agarwal, for $128 million in unpaid severance payments.
