The reason why the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk was close to falling was the high number of fake accounts on the platform. Now that the businessman owns the social network, one of his changes would aim to solve part of that problem.
The application changed the font type of its letter without any warning or notification, so several speculations have arisen about the reason for this decision and one of them suggests that it is a measure to expose fake profiles.
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Molly White, page creator Web3 is Going Just Greatwas one of the first to reveal the change, showing, for example, how zero now has a crosshatch to distinguish it from the letter O.
“I’m not sure a font change, which still requires people to look closely at the Twitter handle, would make much of a difference, but hey, it probably won’t make anything worse,” White wrote.
The app made a change to its font, adding some designs to the letters.
This also happens with other letters, being easier to distinguish a capital i from a lowercase l, to which a small tail was added.
This change is a way to complicate the work of those who create fake accounts or copies of other users, since they use special characters, such as numbers, to confuse other people and make them believe that the registered name is the same. than the official
At the moment this change has been perceived by some users in the web version of Twitter both on desktop and mobile, but not in the application for Android phones and iOS.
In addition, the font was changed for the names of the users, because in the tweets no alteration is seen at the moment.
This tool is added to other options that the application has recently added to validate the accounts, one of them is Twitter Blue the premium plan in which users can pay to have their profile verified in a process in which the application verifies their identity with that of the account on the platform.
Although this generated problems in the launch of the function, since those who paid could easily deceive other users by taking advantage of the blue icon. But over time the app controlled the situation and divided the types of verification.
The app made a change to its font, adding some designs to the letters.
Another novelty that comes to Twitter
After having promised Twitter is finally rolling out the feature that allows you to mark tweets as favorites to view them later, cutting a process that until now was quite long.
Within the options of a trill, an icon will now appear to add that content as a favorite, a process that is very similar to what other platforms like Instagram or TikTok do.
Clicking on it will not flag it, but will bring up a panel to check all other tweets that have been saved.
Before the arrival of this function, the saving process was long. Users had to go to the Share button to open a window and then choose the option to save the content.
With more additional steps, users opted to use the ‘Like’ tool to mark a tweet and then search for it in the listing if they wanted to review it again.
In addition to this addition, the premium service of the social network was recently enabled in Androidinitially for United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
The plan is priced the same as on iOS, at $11 a month, and offers the same benefits of blue verification, 60-minute video upload, priority sorting on chat responses, and more.
