Bad news for people who like to beat their meat in peace — weeks after Twitter’s public view counter illustrated just how unpopular we all evidently are, the platform’s Musk-y overlords have unveiled their latest visible metric— publicly displaying the number of users who bookmarked a tweet.
Quickly earning the nickname of the “jack off ratio,” as Twitter user @JUNlPER so aptly dubbed it, the site broke from its traditional protocol of releasing (usually site-crashingly terrible) updates into the ether without informing a single soul, announcing the change earlier this week.
TWITTER I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY BOOKMARKS MY TWEETS HAVE PLEASE DON’T ADD TO THE PSYCHIC DAMAGE pic.twitter.com/cBSSyfViBG
— meg “Elaine” bitchell (@MeganBitchell) March 16, 2023
they’re calling the ratio of likes:bookmarks on a photo of a hot girl the “jack off ratio”
— pudding person (@JUNlPER) March 16, 2023
“We love Bookmarks for saving Tweets to revisit later,” Twitter’s official support page wrote on Thursday, March 16.
“Starting today on iOS, you’ll now see the total number of times a Tweet has been bookmarked on Tweet details,” they continued, before elaborating that the depravity of your Twitter porn folders is safe (...at least for now) in a subsequent post.
We love Bookmarks for saving Tweets to revisit later. Starting today on iOS, you’ll now see the total number of times a Tweet has been bookmarked on Tweet details.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 16, 2023
Mere moments after the Twitter dev team’s poor, poor social media intern pressed “tweet,” it seems the platform’s patrons already had strong opinions on the controversial move — namely, what the actual fuck.
No one wants this
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 16, 2023
To paraphrase @SHABOOTY’s ever-poignant post, congrats on your new numbers soup, Twitter! I guess what Elon wants, Elon gets, we guess … with the notable exceptions of Grimes and a father who is actually proud of him.
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