Twitter’s CEO took to his page to announce that the tweet source feature will be taken down. This feature tags along every tweet and indicates the type of device that made the post. It sits next to the time and date the tweet went live and reads “Twitter for Android, iPhone, Web, etc.”
According to Elon Musk, the reason behind this is to reduce the bloatware present in the application. By reducing the bloatware on the app, Musk is certain that it will further reduce the refresh time on Twitter. From his findings, some Twitter apps in the US take “two seconds to refresh” while in India the same app refreshes in under 20 seconds.
To help solve the problem of low refresh time in most regions, Musk will turn off the microservices’ bloatware. In addition to this, the tweet source feature will go. While removing this feature may not do much in reducing the refresh time, Musk calls it a “waste of screen space.”
Musk insists that no one knows why the tweet source feature came into existence and will thus discontinue it. This move will hurt the Android and iPhone fanboys that take to Twitter to banter about which operating system is better. At the moment, the feature is still available on Twitter but might disappear soon, becoming one of the many changes the billionaire is bringing to the bird app.