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29 highly unimpressed reactions to Elon Musk making everyone’s X likes private

Oonagh Keating. Updated June 13th, 2024

Since buying Twitter (as it was then) in October 2022, Elon Musk has changed a lot of things about the platform – not least the name.

Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.

He killed the verification system, making it into a sign that an account is a subscriber, rather than that they are who they say they are.

Elon Musk @elonmusk Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.

He reinstated Donald Trump‘s account after a poll.

The people have spoken. Vox populi. Vox dei.

The introduction of a $1 fee in some countries was supposed to stop the bots …

Correct, read for free, but $1/year to write. It’s the only way to fight bots without blocking real users. This won’t stop bots completely, but it will be 1000X harder to manipulate the platform.

It didn’t.

Making likes private

Despite nobody asking for it, Musk has now had his engineers make other people’s likes private.

Important change: your likes are now private

Erm …

It hasn’t exactly been winning hearts and minds. Here’s the verdict.

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