Why Twitter is eliminating device labels from tweets

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, planned to remove device labels from tweets. This may come as one of the major changes on the social media platform, it was reported in November 2022.

What Happened: Following the uproar about Tesla Inc. CEO's decision to monetize the verification badge, launch the official label, kill it, and then reactivate it and initiate mass layoffs, the social media platform is planning to eliminate 'Twitter for iPhone and 'Twitter for Android' labels, as seen at the bottom of a tweet.

If a message was sent from an iPhone, it says Twitter for iPhone and if the text was sent from an Android phone, it reads Twitter for Android. Musk dropped the bomb after a series of tweets about Twitter being slow in many countries.

We're going to stop adding what device was written on waste of space, a device that's been computed below every tweet. No one even knows why we did it See Also: Tesla Impersonated By Parody Handle Amid Elon Musk'sMusk's Twitter Blue Check' Chaos

This step may prevent users from making memes out of celebrity and brand mixups.

In October, Alphabet Inc. s Google Pixel team decided to dissing Apple on Twitter, but in the excitement, they tweeted the post from an iPhone, becoming an instant laughingstock.

Samsung and Huawei Technologies were also caught in such bizarre incidents.

This feature may have been more critical than users thought, because of the entertainment value of adding what device a post came from below the tweet.

Hashtag inventor Chris Messina said that the feature was helpful in the status indicator.

According to Apple Insider, this little label could help users spot bots, even though it was never perfect.