i’ve actually seen view counts on tweets and honestly it is such an unimaginably bad idea. it is going to create a whole new suite of Problems for people who have a dependence on numbers for validation/self-worth/etc. it’s actively harmful imo.
like the reason we don’t have Numbers is because we consider them to be harmful and not how you build a healthy community. when we (eventually) roll out Metrics for people who depend on them to run their business (creators who derive their income from Posting), they will be opt-in and deliberately convoluted to access; no front-and-center numbers.
although i guess for twitter’s goals (maximize engagement), adding cognitohazardous numbers is a good idea. it’s almost certainly gonna work for the people it doesn’t disgust enough for this to be their Last Straw. bad website.
ALSO for twitter users: this is the CSS you want to drop into a userstyle to hide the view count:
div:has(> a[href*="analytics"]) {
display: none !important;
}
EDIT: i forgot that :has() doesn't have support in firefox. firefox users.... y'all are own your own
DOUBLE EDIT: from @thricedotted in the comments:
firefox users aren't totally SOL — in 103+,
:has()can be enabled by going toabout:configand settinglayout.css.has-selector.enabledto true
so go do that
alternately: go install Twitter Demetricator for any of the major browsers. it will wipe all metrics from the site. i refuse to accept any twitter experience other than this one because numbers are poison.
