Elon Musk’s the AI era.
Les projets de X concernant cette fonctionnalité ont été annoncés pour la première fois en octobre, lorsque Nikita Bier, responsable produit de X, a déclaré que l’entreprise expérimenterait l’affichage de ces informations sur les profils, en commençant par son propre compte et celui des employés de X. L’idée est qu’en exposant ces détails, les utilisateurs seraient en mesure de prendre une décision plus éclairée quant à savoir s’ils interagissent avec un compte authentique ou si le compte était un robot ou un mauvais acteur, cherchant à semer la discorde ou à diffuser des informations erroneous.
For example, if an account
Last weekend, Bier responded to a post in which a user asked Elon Musk to require accounts to display location information by telling the user, “Give me 72 hours.”
Since then, more and more people have seen the “About This Account” feature become available on their own profile.
To view your account information on the web or in the X mobile app, you will click on the “Register” date on your profile. From there, you’re taken to a page that shows when you joined Twitter/X, where your account is based, how many username changes have been made and when the last one took place, and how you’re connected to X – like through the US App Store or Google Play, for example.
But while some users around the world are reporting that the feature has appeared on their own profiles, TechCrunch is unable to access this account information on other people’s profiles at the time of publication. This could be because X wants to give users time to preview their information for accuracy and adjust their settings before rolling it out more widely.
Specifically, X allows users to choose whether or not the feature displays their country or whether it only displays their geographic region. The company originally said this would be an option in areas where free speech might be punished, but we’re seeing that even US users can choose to set their profile to show either their country or region/continent. (However, country is the default.)
To make the change, you can go to the “About your account” setting in the “Privacy & security” settings of the X app.
A reverse engineer digging into the app’s code (see below) also discovered that X appears to be working on an additional feature that would display a warning on your account if you used a VPN to hide your location. It’s unclear if or when this feature will go live, but if it does, it would signal to others that “the user’s country or region may not be accurate.”
X did not respond to a request for comment on the deployment. However, Bier joked about all the recent sightings, indicating that people were seeing the feature just as it was starting to roll out.
X is not the first social network to offer this level of transparency to users. Instagram has long offered a similar “About this account” feature, for example.
