X no longer discloses who ‘likes’ other postings

Users’ favorite posts are now hidden from other users by X.

As the website update was being released on Wednesday morning, Elon Musk officially announced the news in a post.

Musk stated, «Important change: your likes are now private,» paraphrasing an explanation that the business’s engineering account had shared on Tuesday.

The post states that users will still be able to see who liked their own posts and whose posts they had liked, but not who had liked posts from other people.

The tab displaying the postings that the majority of users had liked vanished from their accounts on Wednesday.

Musk reshared a screenshot of the story to confirm the news, which was initially reported by The Verge on Tuesday.

The upgrade was hinted to in a post by X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, on May 21.

In March, Musk stated that he eventually intended for postings on X to merely display the number of views, not the number of likes and retweets. The like counts tool is still accessible, and there don’t seem to be any changes to the retweets feature.

Likes on certain other social networking sites have also been made more private. Instagram included a Following Activity tab a few years back, which allowed users to view all of the liked posts from persons they followed in one location. Since then, the tab has been gone, and users may now choose to conceal the number of likes on posts they produce.