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Elon Musk's Ugly Twitter Views Will Soon Be Optional. Here Are Some Of The Reactions That May Have Forced His Hand

Elon Musk's Ugly Twitter Views Will Soon Be Optional. Here Are Some Of The Reactions That May Have Forced His Hand
Twitter users made it very clear that they weren't happy with the new view count feature.
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Last week, Twitter — helmed by rich idiot Elon Musk — introduced view counts, allowing people to see how many times a tweet has, you guessed it, been viewed. People were unhappy for a couple of good reasons.

Firstly, it looks terrible. See below for examples:



Secondly, no one who doesn’t have a million followers wants to see how many views their tweet got before receiving zero interactions. Seriously, what purpose does this serve beyond making people feel bad and/or reluctant to tweet?

Twitter users communicated their displeasure at Elon Musk’s latest bad decision in the way they know best: memes. And it appears the complaints worked; view counts will be optional soon. Good work, guys.


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