Twitter removes “Twitter For iPhone”, “Twitter For Android” labels
While mobile electric crematoriums are common in other states of India, Tamil Nadu will have its first one now.
Published Date - 18 December 2022, 04:03 PM
Hyderabad: Post Elon Musk’s acquisition, Twitter has been going through numerous changes with Twitter Blue, coloured badges, incorporating mute and block signals, and others. In another such development, the microblogging site has now removed the device label from tweets.
Twitter will no longer show the device a tweet was posted from- be it an iPhone or an Android device or even Twitter Web. The new boss has himself confirmed the news on his Twitter handle.
Responding to a user’s tweet, Musk had last month said that the company will “finally cease adding what device a tweet was made on,” calling the function a “waste of screen space & compute.”
While previous changes on the micro blogging platform were largely criticized, many users are appreciating this move. Some are even recalling how big brands including Samsung, Huawei and Google, have been caught in the act for advertising their products from their iPhones via the “Twitter for iPhone” label.
“Not sure why this was necessary. I get it doesn’t matter what you’re tweeting from, but I feel like it had more pros than cons. Why remove it if it wasn’t hurting anything, yknow? (sic)” opined a user. “Now you’ll never know I have an iPhone…” said another user.