The function will not have been unanimous. Deployed on December 22 and imagined by Elon Musk, the View Count feature allows you to publicly display the number of views on a tweet. But that was without taking into account the criticism of some users who were not happy with the screen and the new design.
A few days later, on December 24, Elon Musk already takes a step back, thinking about giving the possibility to deactivate the function. He announced it in a tweet in response to a comment.
“We’re going to improve the aesthetics and add a setting to disable this feature, but I think almost everyone will eventually like it,” he predicted in a tweet.
Encourage users to tweet
However, Elon Musk was enthusiastic about launching the new feature designed to make the social network “more alive”.
“Twitter is rolling out view counting, so you can see how many times a tweet has been viewed! This is normal for videos. 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply, or like because it’s a public action,” he said. explained.
Until now, the statistics of a tweet were only visible to the user who wrote the message. View Count is only available for tweets posted after December 15. This feature gives weight to users with a high number of subscribers and who place a lot of importance on their visibility, but it can scare other users away.
Source: BFM TV
