Elon Musk has not too long ago taken to responding to some Twitter customers who tag him, and has been identified to leap into conversations on the platform that he now owns. In a latest dialog about bettering the Twitter UI, Musk replied to a Gadgets 360 workers member’s suggestion and in addition said “several major UI improvements” are coming in January. As present CEO of Twitter, Musk has made sweeping modifications to the service and has additionally launched tiny tweaks, a few of which appear to be experiments. Most not too long ago, Twitter started displaying views and interplay statistics for every tweet with the intention to reveal that whereas not lots of people actively remark or like tweets, they’re being learn.
On Friday afternoon, Musk ran a Twitter ballot asking customers whether or not view counts needs to be proven on the left or proper of the tweet UI. The new statistic is at present displayed on the left, taking precedent over the Reply, Retweet and Like indicators. At the top of the polling interval, 54.3 % of customers had voted to maneuver it to the suitable, whereas 45.7 % appeared to be pleased with the present spot. The ballot spawned a number of dialogue threads about different UI tweaks that Twitter would possibly need to think about.
Two rows occupying essential display screen property. Maybe icons as an alternative of RTs, QTs, Likes and Views might hold it multi functional line? pic.twitter.com/kWWrPcNtOA
— Pranav Hegde (@PranavHegdeHere) December 23, 2022
Gadgets 360 staffer Pranav Hegde replied to Musk stating the house wasted by textual content labels for Views, Likes, Retweets and Quote Tweets beneath every tweet on the service’s cellular UI and suggesting that utilizing icons as an alternative would possibly permit all of them to suit on one line.
Musk replied within the affirmative, indicating that Twitter has both already considered that, or will implement this transformation following his suggestion. Other customers chiming in on the thread made extra recommendations relating to the usage of display screen house, whereas others identified UI bugs and others made jokes about Musk’s behavior of working polls and making impulsive modifications.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2022
The soon-to-be-ex CEO, who has promised to step down after discovering an appropriate successor, has made loads of modifications to Twitter’s performance since taking on, together with a full reimagining of blue id verification tickmarks and an overhauled Twitter Blue subscription plan. He has introduced that he intends to permit all customers to edit tweets, and is engaged on elevating the 280 character restrict to 4,000, which might basically change the way in which Twitter is used.