“Twitter for iPhone”the legend that appears under the tweets published from Apple devices, has its days numbered, just like the one that refers to Android, for example.
It is that Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitterhe decided to remove that feature which, he said, “is there and nobody knows why”, as well as taking up space unnecessarily.
That’s right, when the feature is disabled, we will no longer know if companies like Samsung or Huawei, for example, are tweeting from an iPhone, as has been seen in the past.
After the complications with Twitter Blue and the threat to make all users pay for using the microblogging social network, Musk’s new measure will be to remove the device from which the tweet was posted.
The function is from the beginning of Twitter, just below each publication. There you can read “Twitter for iPhone” either Twitter for Android.
The end of the identification of the device or operating system from which you tweet can be the salvation of many community managers of official accounts of rival iPhone companies, who when working from their own devices, were exposed.
Instead of “Twitter for iPhone” or “Twitter for Android”you will begin to see other types of phrases and platforms that manage the social networks of each account.
“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”Musk wrote on Twitter to explain that he does not know why that function was there and that it is going to be removed.
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…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022
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While making these decisions about functionality, the mogul who bought Twitter for $44 billion less than a month ago is trying to support the social media company by using his other businesses.
With Tesla, for example, he supported Twitter by sending more than 50 tech-savvy employees to implement changes to Twitter.
With SpaceX, meanwhile, buying advertising for Starlink. According to data obtained by CNBC, these are ad packages that cost more than $250,000 and put the brand at the top of Twitter’s main timeline for an entire day.
According to the news network’s sources, the advertising campaign purchased by SpaceX is scheduled to be implemented in Australia and, days later, in Spain.
The ad purchase assumes that Twitter users will see Starlink-branded ads the first three times they open the app on the day or days that the campaign purchased by SpaceX lasts.
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