SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter‘s new owner Elon Musk has announced that the tweet count feature is in public mode. Therefore, you will be able to see the tweet view/impression count below each tweet.
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Taking to Twitter, Elon Musk said “Twitter is rolling out View count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen.”
Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video.
Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 22, 2022
Many users have already started getting view counts on their tweets. This decision was promised by Elon Musk on December 1st, that Twitter users are going to get the view counts on their tweets in the same way as the view count is shown on all videos. He had promised that this feature would be coming in a few weeks, and now people have started receiving view counts on Tweets.
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When you’re in the app, you now see view counters alongside the number of comments, retweets, and likes. According to a Twitter FAQ, not every tweet will have a visible view count. Community tweets, Twitter Circle tweets, and “older” tweets won’t have the data available.
As for what counts as a view, it seems like basically any time your tweet shows up on someone’s screen (even if it’s your own). Twitter says:
Replies and likes don’t tell the whole story. We’re making it easier to tell *just* how many people have seen your Tweets with the addition of view counts, shown right next to likes. Now on iOS and Android, web coming soon.https://t.co/hrlMQyXJfx
— Support (@Support) December 22, 2022
With this feature, users would be able to turn on the analytics for their accounts to see how many impressions the tweet would have gotten in the said time.
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Currently, since people are able to see their own views on tweets, but since Elon has said that the feature would be “just like videos,” which means others would be able to see the count on tweets as well. Since the company or musk has not officially tweeted about this feature, let’s see how this feature will impact the overall working of the social media app.
