Twitter users can no longer have the devices they are tweeting from displayed under their tweets.
This was confirmed by the CEO, Elon Musk.
Hallelujah!! https://t.co/i2FyvXPIHO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Musk had announced in November that the labels “Twitter for iPhone” and “Twitter for Android” consumes space and would be removed.
For long, iPhone users have been using that to catch clout over android users.
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
But was there ever a purpose to the labels in the first place? Well, according to Twitter’s Help Centre, “Tweet source labels help you better understand how a Tweet was posted. This additional information provides context about the Tweet and its author. If you don’t recognize the source, you may want to learn more to determine how much you trust the content.”
