While it’s true that talking about Twitter these days usually means listing Elon Musk’s usual, almost always glaring, and sometimes even exotic mistakes, you have to admit that sometimes he’s right. It may be that it does this like a wristwatch that has stopped and as a result shows the time correctly twice a day, but I won’t be the one to hurt him when he does something right.even if it’s by mistake.

The fact is that, as stated on some previous occasions, Twitter has started hiding most of the “Like” information., which allows users of the social network to maintain much more privacy about themselves without giving up the utility that this feature can provide in different contexts. In short, no one is left without their “likes”, even without being able to express their chest for them.

In more detail, these are changes that are already being implemented on the social network:

• All users will be able to see the total number of likes received for each message, but only the author of the post who receives them will see which accounts have done so.
• Each user will see the list of “Likes” they have given when accessing their profile, but the Likes lists of other users will no longer be publicly accessible.

So, We won’t stop knowing whether the message anyone posted was more or less successfulif we use the “Likes” metric for this purpose, but we will no longer be able to satisfy our curiosity (in many cases morbid) to explore the list of people who like a certain tweet, something that over time is used on many occasions to create different types of signals.

This week we’re making Likes private to everyone to better protect your privacy.

– You will still be able to see the posts you like (but not others).

– Likes and other metrics for your own posts will still appear below notifications.

– You will no longer see who…

— engineering (@XEng) June 11, 2024

Twitter led by Elon Musk, developed quite negatively in many directions, and that’s something we’ve been repeating for over a year and a half since your purchase was completed. Despite their promise to end bots, they are more active today than ever, and due to major downsizing across all departments, the lack of reviewers has caused misinformation and hate to run rampant on social media.

In this sense, “Like” has become a recurring feature for comments (-Look, so-and-so liked a tweet with such a political ideology/scantily clad ladies/potato and onion omelette/etc.), to the extent that it may limit the use of this feature to those people who are more concerned about their privacy . Thus, this measure can encourage more people to recognize the content of the publication by “liking” it without having to worry about their privacy. And this is surprising and positive in Musk’s time (there are already those who say that this measure was taken precisely because the billionaire does not want the rest of the world to see his “Likes”).