- Musk also told an audience that X will soon have a money transmitter license
- X owner said he would remove ‘block’ feature but the change never happened
- READ MORE: X can now harvest ‘biometric’ information including fingerprints
Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that his social media company X is considering getting rid of likes and repost figures on posts.
He made the comment to attendees of the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference.
The move would simply stop showing the number of likes and reposts that a post has received, though the feature would still stand.
Musk also told the crowd that X is a few months away from receiving approval for a money transmitter license in New York.
Elon Musk bought social media site Twitter in 2022, and since then he has announced several major changes to the site. Some have happened, others have not
When Musk bought Twitter, he claimed that under his ownership, the site, renamed X, would be an ‘everything app,’ including not just messaging but also banking and shopping.
Engagement metrics like ‘likes’ and ‘reposts’ – formerly ‘retweets’ – have been a contentious issue for Musk since he bought the company.
Last year, he allegedly pushed engineers at the company to tweak the algorithm and boost his posts, pushing them onto users’ timelines.
After Joe Biden’s Super Bowl tweet received more engagement than Musks, the CEO reportedly deleted the ‘flopped’ tweet and told his engineering team he would fire them if they didn’t fix the issue.
This story will be updated as the news develops.
***
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk