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X, formerly Twitter, is now letting paid users hide their likes | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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X, formerly Twitter, is now letting paid users hide their likes | TechCrunch::Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally I've always considered a like to be more or less a retweet. I'm super picky about what I like because I know it's going to the feed of my subscribers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right. If I wanted to save something I would copy the url.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hated how Twitter likes influenced the algorithm. A subject-specific account I had there had its feed all messed up when I liked anything not on topic for me. So I had to use them strategically, which was a pain.