Many users on the platform started to come to us with how to turn off view count on Twitter questions right after Elon Musk announced that they would improve the view count on Twitter. Let’s review how you can turn off the new feature and Elon Musk’s explanations about the feature.
On December 22, Elon Musk announced on his social media that they would change his views feature. Musk, who came to the agenda recently with the banning of links by rival companies on the platform, promised his followers on the platform immediately after the event that every change made after this day would be submitted to the vote. We can say that Elon Musk ”partially” kept this promise.
So you’re saying you prefer the right? Heheh
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2022
After tweeting whether the Twitter view feature should be on the right or left under the tweets, 54.3% of users voted that the feature should be on the right, while Elon Musk said “So you’re saying you prefer the right? After tweeting “Heheh”, he put the feature on the left side of the platform, revealing his playful identity once again.
Users may not have liked either the location of the feature or the feature itself, as the question of how to turn off view count on Twitter began to be asked nonstop on the platform.
How to turn off view count on Twitter?
We have good and bad news for our readers who are curious about the answer to the question of how to turn off view count on Twitter. Let’s start with the bad news. Unfortunately, there is no way of turning off the view count on the platform yet. Anyone on the platform can see how many people viewed your tweets. Elon Musk may have activated this feature to prove his previous tweet: ”Tweets are read 100 times more than they are liked.”
Although some users on the platform manage to turn this feature off for themselves with some browser extension, other users can still view this count, as there is no way to turn it off officially yet. Coming to the good news, Elon Musk answered to @LayahHeilpern’s tweet, saying that the new feature is very messy on the platform: “We’ll tidy up the esthetics & add a setting to turn it off, but I think almost everyone will grow to like it”. If Elon Musk keeps his word, Twitter will add a way to turn off this new view count feature.
Is there a way to turn off Twitter views for yourself?
If all you want is not to see the Twitter view count, don’t worry, Twitter user @dnaijatechguy has a solution for you. A code has been published on the popular software platform GitHub to turn off the new feature of Twitter in your browser. After telling you that we do not know how the code works and that you should use it at risk, you can turn off the Twitter view feature by following the instructions in the tweet you see below.
Here's how you can turn off view counts on Twitter. This is just a temporary alternative until Twitter gives the option to turn it off.
Note: This only turns it off on your web browser and does not stop other users from seeing your view count on their end. pic.twitter.com/Yy24EZdW4S
— Design Chief Priest (@dnaijatechguy) December 24, 2022
Mixed reviews on Twitter views
As for the reaction of social media to the new feature, we think that the fact that the question of how to turn off view count on Twitter is being asked a lot gives you an answer. Most of the users did not like the new feature. While some considered it as a tiring element for the platform, some users claimed that the tweet of someone with 110k followers received only 800 views in an hour, and claimed that the system is not working correctly.
Some programmers, who left the platform after Twitter laid off thousands of people, said that the feature had been tried before, but it was really difficult to understand whether someone scrolled past it without reading the tweet or actually reading it. All of this raises the question of whether the feature works or not.
Of course, some liked the new feature. Some users think that the View feature will push people to tweet more neatly and attentively, and there are many people who argue that viewing the number of interactions on the platform will make the platform more useful.
