Elon Musk's X Will Eliminate the Likes Tab From Your X Feed This Week: Learn More

Elon Musk's X platform is set to remove the Likes tab from user feeds this week. Explore further to understand the implications and changes this update will bring to the X experience

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June 14, 2024

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Elon Musk's X Platform Set to Eliminate Likes Feature from Posts and Profile Tabs This Week: Details Revealed

Elon Musk's X platform is gearing up to remove the likes feature from user posts and the Likes tab from profiles sometime this week. While Musk hasn’t officially announced the timeline, recent indications suggest an imminent change for X users in the coming days. The news about X concealing likes was reported by The Verge in a recent article, which Musk echoed by stating, “Important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”

An official X engineering account shared details about the upcoming update, which will become visible in the next few days. Here are the key points mentioned in the post:

Likes will become private for everyone to enhance privacy protection.
Users can still view their liked posts, but others cannot.
Like count and other metrics for one's own posts will remain visible under notifications.
Users will no longer see who liked someone else’s posts.
Post authors will retain the ability to see who liked their posts.

While X isn't entirely eliminating likes from the platform, it is making them less visible to the public. Although users can still see the posts that others have liked, these likes will not be publicly displayed on the feed. This personalized approach to likes could be a positive move, but X has often faced criticism for its decisions, and this could be the latest addition to that list.

The speculation about the removal of the like tab surfaced recently from an engineer at X. So, why is X opting to remove this feature and the Likes tab from profiles? According to Haofei Wang, an X engineer, "Public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior. For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be ‘edgy’ in fear of retaliation from trolls or to protect their public image."