Musk wants Twitter (or “X”) to be the next super app after China’s WeChat
From left to rig
Light Mode, Dim Mode, and Dark Mode
Musk made the right call by leaving Light Mode and Dark Mode
This writer believes that Musk actually made the right call by leaving both Light Mode and Dark Mode as options for Twitter users. Most people feel more comfortable with Light Mode since it is easier to read in the daytime. Dark Mode is great for those who don’t want the bright white background from their phones burning the retinas of innocent bystanders while they view Twitter in a dark room or at night.
Musk changes his mind again and removes Dim Mode instead of Light Mode
And on OLED phones, Dark Mode can actually save battery life since creating the color black on such a display requires the appropriate pixels to be turned off. Pixels that aren’t on do not consume battery power. So a Dark Mode setting can reduce battery consumption by a small amount on phones sporting an OLED screen..
No one but Elon Musk knows how he plans on turning Twitter into “X,” the super-app. Even knowing that he wants to mold Twitter into another app like WeChat that has multiple capabilities doesn’t necessarily help us understand all of the moves he has made since buying the platform. One thing that we hope he learns is that not all Twitter users have the same tastes and preferences as he does.
Musk needs to stop shooting from the hip and tweeting out changes he wants to make to the platform without first doing some research. And now that Twitter has a CEO (Linda Yaccarino) hopefully Twitter can be run more like a business and not like a rich man’s hobby.
