Elon Musk Announces View Count Feature For Tweets, Just Like Videos

Ever since Elon Musk took charge of Twitter, the world's richest person has made several changes at the micro-blogging company. In the latest announcement, the Twitter CEO said that Twitter users will now be able to see how their tweet is performing as the platform is rolling out a new 'view count' feature. Just like YouTube videos, the feature will allow users to see how many people have seen and engaged with their tweets. Previously, users only who tweeted counted the views by using tweet analytics.

In a tweet on Thursday, Elon Musk wrote, ''Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video. Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don't tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.''

See the tweet here:

Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video.

Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don't tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 22, 2022

Some Twitter users have reported getting the feature, but it doesn't seem to be available to everyone yet, reported The Verge. To access the new feature, the person just needs to tap on the tweet and see a little graph with "View Tweet Activity" written alongside it.

Mr. Musk first announced the feature earlier this month and wrote, "Tweets will show the view count in a few weeks, just like videos do. Twitter is much more alive than people think,” he tweeted.

Have you clicked on your tweet analytics (little bar graph)?

Those who read tweets outnumber those who reply/retweet/like tweets by over 1000%.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 1, 2022

Earlier on 19 December, he had said that he would step down as chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter as soon as he finds a replacement. "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams," Musk wrote on Twitter.

This is the first time Musk has mentioned stepping down as chief of the social media platform after Twitter users voted for him to resign in a poll, which the billionaire launched on Sunday evening.