Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) confirmed on Wednesday that it will no longer display public "like" records on user profile pages.
On May 23, IT Home reported that the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) confirmed on Wednesday that it would no longer display the public "like" record on the user's profile page.
The "like" on X is similar to "like", and it will be displayed in the "like" tab of the user profile page after you like the related posts. After the policy takes effect, the "Like" tab on the user profile page will disappear. Haofei Wang, the engineering director of X, confirmed when responding to the relevant posts, "Yes, we will set the preference information as private. Public preference will cause people to have wrong behavioral motives. For example, many people are afraid of liking 'alternative' content because they are afraid of being retaliated by the fans or damaging their public image."
"In the future, you can freely like it without worrying who will see it," Wang continued. "In addition, let me remind you that the more content you like, the more accurate the platform's' recommend for you 'algorithm will be."
In order to eliminate confusion among users, Enrique Barragan, a senior software engineer of X, also posted a response, saying that users can still see who liked their posts, and the number of likes of all posts, replies and so on is still visible. This change only involves hiding the content that others have liked, that is, removing the "like" tag on the public profile page.
IT Home noticed that previously paid subscribers of X platform could choose to hide the "like" tag in their personal data, but the upcoming revision will impose this function on all users, and the specific online time is still unclear.
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