Twitter Doing Away With Feature That Shows What Device A Tweet Was Written On

Musk announced Twitter will be doing away with the feature that adds what device a tweet was written on, meaning there will be no mention of "Twitter for iPhone" or "Twitter for Android" below a tweet.

Literally no one even knows why we did that, Musk said.

Twitter is witnessing a series of changes after a chaotic takeover by billionaire Elon Musk and the new company chief on Monday announced that the micro-blogging site will be doing away with the feature that adds what device a tweet was written on, which means there will be no mention of "Twitter for iPhone" or "Twitter for Android" below a tweet.

"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 …" Musk announced on Twitter.

It should be noted that this feature has given way to a lot of controversies, especially in the case of smartphone brands where an Android smartphone company was "caught" posting a tweet about its upcoming model via an iPhone. Such tweets became material for memes and trolls on Twitter and in some cases, smartphone companies had to delete them.

This development comes amid rounds of layoffs at Twitter. After firing about 50 per cent of the total Twitter workforce across the world, or about 3,800 employees, Musk has laid off another 4,400 contractual workers at the company.

Neither Musk nor Twitter reacted to the new wave of layoffs that started over the weekend. Many found out they weren't working for the company anymore after they abruptly lost access to Twitter's internal systems.

"One of my contractors just got deactivated without notice in the middle of making critical changes to our child safety workflows," one manager posted in the company's internal Slack messaging platform.

Following Twitter's earlier layoffs, many contractors ended up on teams with no full-time staff, leaving no one to sign off on their timesheets, Engadget reported.

Meanwhile, Twitter's new chief Musk on Sunday apologised for the platform being super slow in several countries. The apology came minutes after he tweeted, "Twitter feels increasingly alive."