From the New York Times: What looks different on Twitter now, and what are the changes underlying the tweaks?
Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco on Jan. 24, 2023.
But nearly six months after Musk took over Twitter, his ambitions for the platform have remained mostly that — ambitions.Although the billionaire has made dozens of tweaks to Twitter, they have largely been cosmetic. His changes have mostly affected the platform’s appearance, said Jane Manchun Wong, an independent software engineer who studies social apps.
Last month, Andrea Conway, a designer at Twitter, posted about the design changes, saying: “We know you hate it. We hate it too. We’re working on making it suck less.” The modifications, she added, could eventually make Twitter “completely unusable.”So what looks different on Twitter now, and what are the changes underlying the tweaks?The most notable difference is Twitter’s newsfeed, the stream of posts people see when they open the app.
Musk has begun charging users an $8 monthly fee in exchange for a check mark, with the free check marks starting to disappear this month. He is essentially favoring payments from subscribers, departing from the idea that a check mark meant an account was notable. Under Musk, every tweet now has more metrics attached. He has added a tally showing how many times a post has been viewed, saying the total number of views can demonstrate a message’s popularity better than its total likes or retweets. Twitter has also added a tally for the number of times a tweet is bookmarked and saved.
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