RIP ‘Twitter for iPhone’, ‘Twitter for Android’: Elon Musk to take away machine label from tweets | Know-how Information
In one of many largest adjustments coming to Twitter, its new proprietor Elon Musk is planning on doing away with machine labels from tweets. At current, when you tweet utilizing iPhone, the underside of the tweet can have a ‘Twitter for iPhone’ label and if the consumer has an Android smartphone, it is going to present a ‘Twitter for Android’ label. Nonetheless, quickly, it will come to an finish as Musk is planning to democratize all tweets – no distinction between iPhones and Android customers.
“A part of at present shall be turning off the “microservices” bloatware. Lower than 20% are literally wanted for Twitter to work! And we’ll lastly cease including what machine a tweet was written on (waste of display area & compute) beneath each tweet. Actually nobody even is aware of why we did that …,” mentioned Musk in a series of tweets.
Abolishing the iPhone and Android labels for Twitter will even cease customers from demeaning others. There have been many situations prior to now when iPhone customers tried to demean Android customers on Twitter. The elimination of the machine label will mark the top of an period.
Earlier, Musk had mentioned that Twitter is sluggish in lots of international locations and particularly for Android customers. “Btw, I’d wish to apologize for Twitter being tremendous sluggish in lots of international locations. App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs simply to render a house timeline!….I used to be advised ~1200 RPCs independently by a number of engineers at Twitter, which matches # of microservices. The ex-employee is mistaken. Identical app in US takes ~2 secs to refresh (too lengthy), however ~20 secs in India, as a consequence of dangerous batching/verbose comms. Truly helpful knowledge transferred is low,” Mus Tweeted.
Musk just lately additionally introduced that Twitter will quickly be rolling out the power for organizations to establish which different Twitter accounts are literally related to them. This can assist in the identification of faux accounts.
