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In another
Elon Musk-led attempt to ruin the platform formerly known as
Twitter, it has been announced that your “likes” are no longer viewable.
The Engineering team for the site now known as
X announced that starting this week, “likes” are now private. The team claims that making likes private would “better protect your privacy.”
Here’s what the change means, in simple terms:
- You can see the posts you liked, but others can’t.
- You can’t see who liked someone else’s post.
- You can see who liked a post that you wrote (but only in notifications).
The feature was
first introduced back in September as a feature for those who paid for X Premium. Now, however, the feature is being forced for all users.
As you can imagine, this is receiving mixed reactions in the Xitterverse. While others are intrigued by the thought of keeping their “spicy” likes under wraps, the rest are disappointed that the change makes it difficult to gauge genuine engagement with followers. And, there’s also the theory that this could make it easier to cover up the
expansion of hate speech and misinformation (and, possibly, even worse behavior) on the platform.
Check Out Some Of The Reactions Below!
1. The worst.
3. A simpler time…
4. Us too.
5. Oh?
6. Rude!
7. When there's a will…there is DEFINITELY a way.
8. Uh… you might not need to stalk if this is your reaction…
9. Exactly!
10. Another reason why this may be a BIG problem…
11. … a VERY BIG problem.
12. Online dating is for the birds, at this point.
13. Oh wow…
14. This is not funny, X.
