SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has removed a feature that used to tell users about the device used for posting tweets, days after Elon Musk had said that Twitter will “finally cease adding what device a tweet was made on,” calling the function a “waste of screen space & compute.”
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This came to the notice of general public after a tweet by Pubity, saying Twitter had removed the ability to see which device a tweet comes from. (Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Android).
Twitter has removed the ability to see which device a tweet comes from. (Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Android) pic.twitter.com/UEcLOFNnkR
— Pubity (@pubity) December 17, 2022
Responding to the tweet, Elon Musk confirmed that the microblogging platform would no longer show the device a tweet was posted from- be it an iPhone or an Android device or even Twitter Web. He shared a tweet from Pubity which informed users of the same and captioned it as “Hallelujah!!”
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However, MM News has checked and cross checked, and came to the conclusion that the feature of not-telling-device has only been introduced on the web version, while other apps such as Twitter for Andriod or Tweetdeck were still showing the device names.
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