Musk to end era of catching Android tweets sent from iPhone - Business Insider

• Elon Musk says Twitter volition get escaped of root labels indicating the instrumentality a tweet was sent from.
• Twitter says connected its assistance halfway that the labels assistance users "determine however overmuch you spot the content."
• Some connected Twitter person utilized the labels to drawback tweets promoting Android phones sent from iPhones.

It whitethorn soon nary longer beryllium imaginable to spot erstwhile a tweet promoting an Android telephone is sent by an iPhone.

Elon Musk, the caller billionaire proprietor of Twitter, said connected Monday that Twitter would get escaped of the statement connected tweets specifying what benignant of instrumentality they were sent from, specified arsenic an iPhone.

"And we volition yet halt adding what instrumentality a tweet was written connected (waste of surface abstraction & compute) beneath each tweet," Musk tweeted. "Literally nary 1 adjacent knows wherefore we did that …"

As Chance Miller, editor-in-chief of the Apple quality website 9to5mac.com, noted connected Twitter, the institution got escaped of the diagnostic successful 2012 but re-implemented it successful 2018.

Twitter says that these root labels "help you amended recognize however a Tweet was posted."

"This further accusation provides discourse astir the Tweet and its author," Twitter's help center says. "If you don't admit the source, you whitethorn privation to larn much to find however overmuch you spot the content."

The diagnostic has besides been utilized to drawback Android marque ambassadors tweeting from rival iPhones.

In 2018, Gal Gadot tweeted an advertisement for the Android phone, Huawei Mate 10 — from her iPhone, arsenic pointed out astatine the clip by Marques Brownlee, a YouTuber whose tech-focused transmission has implicit 16 cardinal subscribers.

That's not the lone illustration of Android-related brands oregon ambassadors tweeting astir the products from an iPhone:

• Last month, the Google Pixel Twitter relationship responded to a tweet by Apple CEO Tim Cook successful what appeared to beryllium a excavation astatine the company. But the archetypal tweet, which was deleted, had the statement "Twitter for iPhone."
• Last year, Samsung's US Twitter relationship tweeted a poll teasing the motorboat of a caller product, but it was sent from an iPhone.
• A promotional tweet for the Android telephone One Plus 7 Pro, from an influencer hired by T-Mobile, was sent from an iPhone successful 2019.
• Singer Alicia Keys was erstwhile a personage ambassador for BlackBerry, and she had said that she had fixed up her iPhone successful favour of a BlackBerry Z10. But she was caught tweeting from an iPhone.