For those of us who are avid Twitter users, you may have been asking yourself. “Why did Twitter introduce the View Count feature?”
Yes, why is that? It’s really fun for us to see how many other Twitter users have seen our tweet posts. However. Isn’t it okay if we feel curious? Yes, so why was this Twitter View Count feature launched?
Twitter View Count
As reported by PCMag and also uploaded a tweet from the big boss of Twitter, Elon Musk. So the reason why he launched this feature, so that users can find out how much their tweet uploads are seen by other users.
Now in his explanation he added the phrase, “This is normal for video.” Which we can catch here. That Musk’s original intention for this feature was indeed for video-formatted tweets.
Getting Mixed Reactions
He immediately launched this feature on 22-23 December 2022. Reactions to this feature were mixed. Some liked it, but some didn’t.
Some also protested that this feature is no different from the old feature, Impressions. For me personally, and this is really my neutral response. I like this feature.
Why? Because I feel good when I see how many people see my tweets. But at the same time, it can also motivate us to produce tweets that attract more people.
Now the more our tweets have a lot of views. Then more and more people follow. As a result, it does not rule out the possibility for our Twitter to later get a blue tick. Oh yeah forgot, you have to pay to get it he..he.
Apparently it was once developed
It turns out that this feature guys have actually been developed. Specifically in 2015. This was revealed through a tweet upload from a user named Stammy.
Yes as we read. Stammy was basically one of the former Twitter employees about 7-8 years ago. Now based on the tweet. It turns out that in 2015, the Stammy team had created and even tested a similar feature.
It turned out that after they tested it, the feature still displayed “0 Views.” Seeing this, Stammy and his team stopped testing the feature. Now, what do you think about this discussion?
