People Are Hating Elon Musk’s New Twitter View Count Feature

Twitter users noticed a major change in their feeds yesterday (December 22) when all of a sudden tweet views were made visible and the retweet and like buttons were shifted around. Twitter CEO Elon Musk rolled out a new feature update in which tweets show how many times a post has been seen. This follows in the footsteps of the video model, where fellow tweeters are shown how many views a video has accumulated.

Musk announced on Thursday: "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."

He wrote in another tweet: "Tweets are read ~100 times more than they are liked." In a new poll made in the wee hours Friday morning, Musk asked if the impressions should be moved from the left to the right, adding in a follow-up tweet: "So you’re saying you prefer the right? Heheh."

Twitter users almost unanimously shared the same thoughts on the unnecessary update that apparently no one asked for. "Get rid of it," wrote one Twitter user.

Another user responded to Musk's poll and added a new option: ""C) go away — it was already available through insights. From a UI perspective, it doesn’t make sense to be there, the other items are posting tools (like, reply, rt) and this one is just randomly there for no reason."

One person pointed out how the view counts could be high, but the like count stays the same.

Since the billionaire acquired the platform in October, he has rolled out several new additions and made some controversial moves, including suspending several prominent journalists who cover him, as well as Twitter’s decision to ban, and then un-ban, links to other social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, a fast-growing Twitter rival that has octupled in size since October.

New research has revealed the most Googled celebrities of 2022 in America, conducted by celebrity news site CelebTattler. The site analyzed Google search data for over 150 of the most influential celebrities since January 1, 2022 to determine which celebrity was the most talked about of the year. Commenting on the study, a spokesperson for CelebTattler said: "This year has certainly not been lacking when it comes to celebrity news stories, whether it be Elon Musk taking over Twitter or the Don’t Worry Darling behind the scenes drama. This study offers a fascinating insight into which celebrities have had the biggest impact on the American people and it will be interesting to see if these search figures rise or fall in 2023."

With no shortage of celebrity drama, deaths and controversies, it is of no shock that the top 10 celebrities who made the list are those whose stories we are still following. See below the top 10 most Googled celebrities of 2022: