Elon Musk Is Renaming Twitter Simply To “X”

Ever since Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and Space X, acquired Twitter, it feels like the social media platform has been nothing but a big digital testing ground for his ideas and potential features. This round, though, he’s decidedly had enough of the platform name and is renaming it, simply to X.

In a tweet via his official account, Musk posted the message “And soon we shall bid adieu to the brand and, gradually, all the birds”. And for those that aren’t convinced that the founder of Tesla isn’t going through with it, he’s already replaced his profile picture with a stylised image of the letter X, as well as pinned a 3-second clip of the social network’s new namesake on his main page. Oh, and he reportedly also sent out an email to staff, the contents of which stated “this will be the last email that I will ever send from a Twitter email address”.

It’s no secret that Musk has long been a fan of the “X” branding. From the Tesla Model X to SpaceX, his latest venture into AI is a company named xAI. As to why the rebranding to a single alphabet, Musk says that he has envisioned the platform becoming an “everything app” but didn’t provide further details on that. Some believe that he could be referring to the popular China-made app, WeChat, and how it is used as a gateway for shopping and payments, along with social media.

That being said, it can also be argued that Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter to X is a dangerous move; the social network has already lost more than half its ad revenue since November last year, due to the changes in which content is moderated on the site. Of course, it can also be said that the rebranding is the man’s way to cut off ties with the platform’s former leadership, along with all the decisions they had made before his arrival.

Twitter Blue Relaunches, Adds Gold Checkmark

Twitter has relaunched its premium subscription service, Twitter Blue, for iOS and web users. The service initially launched last month but was quickly suspended after a series of high-profile impersonations thanks to the subscription’s offering of a blue checkmark.

This time around, Twitter Blue is rolling out with new review policies that hopefully mitigate the issues it saw during the last launch. Subscribers will need to confirm their phone number when signing up and if they make any changes to their profile photo, display name, or handle, they will temporarily lose the blue checkmark until the account is reviewed and validated.

Other features of the subscription include the ability to edit tweets, upload 1080p videos, use reader mode, undo tweets, and access some customisation options. The site also says that new features such as prioritised tweets, 50% fewer ads, and posting longer videos will be coming soon.

Twitter Now Lets You Remove Followers Without Them Knowing

As part of the company’s effort to filter potentially offensive content and users from its platform, Twitter has officially launched its “soft block” feature that lets you remove troublesome followers. The feature was already being tested last month but is now being rolled out to the general public.

If you’re wondering how soft blocking is different from regular blocking, it actually doesn’t block users at all, but rather quietly makes the unwanted follower “unfollow” you. Twitter says that such users won’t be notified of the action taken on them.

Keep in mind that while you’re essentially removing yourself from their feed, they’ll still have access to your profile and your public tweets. Moreover, they can still follow you back if they realise they’ve been removed. This might be useful if you think that blocking someone just for being annoying is a bit extreme but of course, Twitter still recommends you to do so for harassers.

To use this feature, you can go to your Followers list, pick an account, click on the three-dot icon, and click “Remove this follower”. The social media giant says that this is only going to be available for web users for now, with no word on when it will come to iOS or Android apps.

Twitter has been developing a suite of features to increase safety and reduce toxicity on its feeds. One of them includes the ability to set who can reply even after a Tweet has been published. Another that’s being tested is an algorithm that automatically blocks users for you if it detects that they’re repeatedly posting offensive replies.

Twitter Testing New Edge-To-Edge Layout For Photos And Videos On iOS

Twitter recently revealed that it is testing a new layout on its iOS app for tweets containing photos and videos. Posts such as these will now fill up the entire width of the screen to give more focus on media content shared by the platform’s community.

From the demonstration video provided, it is quite clear that Twitter has drawn inspiration for this new layout from social media rival Instagram. In fact, these posts do bear a strong resemblance to the Facebook-owned photo sharing platform’s layout – difference being the inclusion of Twitter’s familiar reply, retweet, like and share buttons below the images or videos, and the occasional text-only tweets scattered in between while scrolling through.

This test is the latest from the company as part of its efforts to address various complaints regarding its multimedia content supported tweets throughout the years. These include poor compression that drops the quality of uploaded photos, and the forced cropping of images (which also has controversies of its own) in order to fit within Twitter’s then-existing layout. Since then, the platform has been tweaking its interface to allow for full-sized images and adding high resolution content support up to 4K.

However, not all users are keen on this new edge-to-edge approach. According to The Verge, those who have access to the new layout have complained that it is too “in your face” for their liking and is also “headache-inducing”, while others have made inevitable comparisons of the new format with Twitter’s rivals – namely Facebook and Instagram.

If you’ve not noticed the new layout on the platform’s iOS app yet, that is because Twitter has only rolled out the update to a small number of testers at this time. So far, there’s no mention of when the platform is planning to have the updated interface to other users on Apple’s platform, or even to those on the Android version of the app.

Twitter Is Testing New Like And Dislike Feature For Selected iOS Users

Twitter has confirmed via its official Support account that it is testing a new user approval function for tweets in the form of like and dislike buttons. However, the platform noted that the new feature will only be available to select users on iOS for now.

In regards to “disliking” a tweet, Twitter claims the function would act similarly to Reddit’s downvote feature, where it is used for researching on what type of replies users find relevant in a conversation. The company added that dislikes will be hidden, whereas the number of likes will be publicly visible. That being said, the number of dislikes will only be visible to the owner of the tweet and won’t affect the order of the replies. Users will be notified if their tweets receive likes, but no alerts will be given out when it receives the opposite.

According to user @DrOlufunmilayo, those on the iOS version of Twitter will see the prompt shown below. As seen from the screenshot, the new feature will completely replace the existing “heart” icon that is found alongside the reply, retweet and share buttons underneath a tweet.

A “dislike” button for social media platforms has always been a controversial issue. Prior to this, Twitter’s product lead executive Kayvon Beykpour responded to user suggestions for the feature by saying she disagreed with it. She explained that it’s difficult to find “a balance of incentives that rewards positive behaviour & disincentives toxic behaviour.”

Facebook users, in particular, have been requesting the thumbs down button for a long time, with a new rumour cropping up almost yearly. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, stated in 2014 that the social media giant had considered adding a dislike button but was eventually scrapped due to its risk of being too, well, negative. The platform instead opted for Reactions, which allows users to react using emojis. Interestingly, Twitter is rumoured to also introduce emoji reactions similar to Facebook’s in the near future.

YouTube, on the other hand, has been testing on hiding dislike counts on videos from public view, similar to what Twitter is doing. The reason for this could be because many users argue that such a feature could be misused for abuse and bullying. At this current time, it is still unclear whether Twitter plans to expand the feature to the general public or keep it as just a researching tool for engagement.

Twitter May Let You Untag Yourself From Tweet Mentions

Last year, Twitter rolled out a feature that limits who can reply to your tweets. Now, the social media platform has announced the ability for you to untag yourself by tweet mentions. This is another feature that lets you control who you interact with.

Though it’s not one that’s out just yet. It’s part of a small list of early concepts being introduced by Dominic Camozzi, a Twitter product designer. In a string of tweets, he described what they would be like, and is asking users for feedback.

Basically, when they do roll out, one of the features will allow you to unmention yourself from tweets. And if you do this with someone who mentions you but isn’t followed by you, that person will not be able to mention you again.

More settings as part of this feature will also restrict certain accounts from mentioning you. You can also stop everyone mentioning you for a day, three days, or even a whole week.

Camozzi did not say when any of this will go live, or if they even will. If feedback to these ideas are warmly received, then maybe Twitter will start putting these ideas into development.

Twitter Will Warn You Before You Tweet Anything Potentially Offensive

Among the big three social media platforms, Twitter is frequently seen as the meanest of the lot – filled with hate speech, trolling, profanity, political rage, and more. Twitter itself seems to taken notice and is now rolling out a feature that encourages people to pause before they send something potentially harmful or offensive.

The social media company said it had already been testing the feature last year. After incorporating user feedback and learnings from the tests, Twitter is now launching the feature across iOS and Android, beginning with accounts that have set their language to English.

The feature has apparently gone through quite a bit of improvement. In earlier forms, Twitter said it struggled to capture the nuance in many conversations and frequently couldn’t differentiate between potentially offensive language, sarcasm, and friendly banter. This meant quite a few unnecessary prompts.

So the company made a few adjustments. This includes ensuring that the system takes into account the relationship between the author and replier. So if two accounts follow each other and often reply to each other, there’s a good chance that the language used probably isn’t an issue.

From the tests, Twitter found that the prompts had some moderating effect on what is actually said. If prompted, one-third (34%) of users would revise their initial reply or decide not to send the reply at all. And after being prompted once, people wrote, on average, 11% fewer offensive replies in the future.

Twitter Rolls Out Tip Jar Payment Feature For Content Creators And Others

Twitter joins other social media platforms in rolling out a payment feature for content creators and others. As the name implies, Tip Jar will enable people to support Twitter personalities with tips.

The account owner / recipient will have to enable the feature first – after which, a Tip Jar icon will appear next to the Follow button on their profile page. Those who wish to tip can then tap on the icon and select a payment service or platform that the account has enabled.

Once a selection has been made, users will be brought off Twitter to the chosen app, where they can enter an amount and finalise payment. Available services include Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, PayPal and Venmo. Twitter said it takes no cut, but noted that payment service availability and features will vary by region. Android users can also send tips within Spaces.

At the moment, everyone using Twitter in English can send tips to those who have enabled the feature – expansion to other languages is planned. But for the time being, only a limited group of people across the world who use Twitter in English can add the feature to their profile and receive money. These people include creators, journalists, experts and nonprofits, but Twitter said it’ll widen that circle shortly.

Twitter said that Tip Jar is a “first step” in its efforts to set up ways for people to give and receive money on the platform. Social media platforms are banking heavily on attracting creators – Clubhouse launched its first monetisation feature last month, and Facebook has its Stars feature, with more monetisation opportunities announced and on the way.

Twitter Will Warn You Before You Tweet Anything Potentially Offensive

Among the big three social media platforms, Twitter is frequently seen as the meanest of the lot – filled with hate speech, trolling, profanity, political rage, and more. Twitter itself seems to taken notice and is now rolling out a feature that encourages people to pause before they send something potentially harmful or offensive.

The social media company said it had already been testing the feature last year. After incorporating user feedback and learnings from the tests, Twitter is now launching the feature across iOS and Android, beginning with accounts that have set their language to English.

The feature has apparently gone through quite a bit of improvement. In earlier forms, Twitter said it struggled to capture the nuance in many conversations and frequently couldn’t differentiate between potentially offensive language, sarcasm, and friendly banter. This meant quite a few unnecessary prompts.

So the company made a few adjustments. This includes ensuring that the system takes into account the relationship between the author and replier. So if two accounts follow each other and often reply to each other, there’s a good chance that the language used probably isn’t an issue.

From the tests, Twitter found that the prompts had some moderating effect on what is actually said. If prompted, one-third (34%) of users would revise their initial reply or decide not to send the reply at all. And after being prompted once, people wrote, on average, 11% fewer offensive replies in the future.

Twitter Now Allows Android, iOS Users To Tweet 4K Resolution Pictures

Starting today, Twitter users on both Android and iOS will now be allowed to tweet and view images at 4K resolution on the app. The social network’s allowance for higher resolution images comes a little more than a month, after it began testing the upload option on mobile devices.

Prior to this, only the web version of Twitter was able to support 4K images, with the mobile versions of the app only capable of supporting half the resolution. That said, not every mobile device is capable of capturing images at 4K resolutions or greater; as a rule of thumb most cameras with a sensor greater than 10MP are capable of the feat. Even more so for the latest iPhone 12 series, since all the sensors in their main camera modules are rated at 12MP.

In any case, if you want to upload images at 4K resolution on your Android or iOS device, you’re going to need to enter the Twitter preferences Tab and tick off a few criteria within the Data Usage section. Basically, you’ll need to select if you want to allow 4K resolution photos to be uploaded via your mobile data or only when connected via Wi-Fi.

Russia Backtracks on Decision To Block Twitter After Receiving Signs of Cooperation

The Russian government is seemingly backing off from banning Twitter for now, seeing how the platform has somewhat agreed to delete banned content faster. Still, regulators said they would continue to throttle Twitter’s speed in the country until mid-May.

Last month, Russia accused the social media platform of failure to remove posts related to suicide, drugs, and child pornography. State regulators then began slowing down the loading of photo and video content on Twitter, threatening to block the platform completely if it didn’t change course.

But according to the Associated Press (AP), Roskomnadzor – the country’s media regulating authority – said on Monday that it had decided against a ban, “taking into account the decision made by Twitter for the first time to change the principles and speed of its own moderation service in Russia, and the removal of a significant part of the prohibited content.”

The agency noted that Twitter was taking 81 hours to delete banned content after receiving notification – a far cry from the 24 hours required by law. But officials were willing to give the company more time to comply after holding talks with it on 1 April, Reuters said.

Russian officials previously slammed social media platforms for enabling street protests that demanded the release of jailed government critic Alexei Navalny. Last Friday, a Moscow court fined Twitter 8.9 million Rubles (~RM477000) for not removing content that encouraged minors to participate in unauthorised protests.

Twitter Creates Dedicated Emoji For Pro-Democracy Movement, #MilkTeaAlliance

Twitter has created a special emoji for the so-called “Milk Tea Alliance” – a pro-democracy, anti-China movement that has seen traction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and more recently, Myanmar. Supporters of the #MilkTeaAlliance in these countries have frequently used the hashtag to protest against their respective authoritarian governments and/or China’s increasing dominance / assertiveness in the region.

Released a year after the hashtag took off, the emoji is simply a white cup set against the three different shades of a regional type of tea, the BBC said. As The Economist noted, tea is often taken neat in China – differentiating it from the milky variants popular in the other aforementioned countries.

Notably, the #MilkTeaAlliance hashtag saw a huge resurgence after the recent military coup in Myanmar. The country’s military government has since blocked Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Twitter itself said it had recorded over 11 million tweets featuring the hashtag over the past year, peaking in April 2020 (its first appearance) and again in February 2021 (when the Myanmar coup happened).

This isn’t the first time that the social media platform has (at least tacitly) thrown its support towards social or political movements. It also designed special emojis for #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter.

And it has little to lose too – Twitter has been blocked in China for years, unlike in other authoritarian countries like Russia, where it has shown some (probably grudging) cooperation with authorities. Unsurprisingly, Beijing isn’t a fan of the #MilkTeaAlliance, accusing it of consistently holding anti-China positions and being “full of biases” against the country, BBC said citing a Bloomberg report.

Twitter CEO Called Out For Tweeting During US Congressional Hearing

US Congressional hearings are far from being the most exciting thing a tech giant looks forward to, nor do they enjoy the questions that are asked in-session. For Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, the man may have indirectly compounded those uneasy feelings when he sent out a tweet, while still in the middle of his own hearing.

Dorsey’s tweet was picked up by the Democratic New York Representative, Kathleen Rice, who was sitting in on Dorsey’s Congressional hearing on disinformation and extremism. Where a panel of lawmakers dealt hard-hitting questions towards Dorsey – along with the CEOs of Facebook and Alphabet – over whether their social media platforms held any responsibility during the 6 January insurrection that led to deadly riots and storming of the US Capitol.

Dorsey’s tweet was a poll with the subject simply being a “?”, with the choices being Yes or No. While the message itself is cryptic, it’s likely Dorsey venting his frustration with regards to the format of the hearing; US lawmakers typically present either a loaded or unnecessarily complicated question to the subject, but demand that the latter reply with a simple “Yes” or “No” answer.

As you can imagine, Representative Rice was less than amused with Dorsey’s tweet and even brought it up during the five-hour session, asking the CEO which poll answer was leading. Dorsey’s answer was a monotonous “Yes”. At the time of writing, Yes currently leads at 65.4%, while No is at 34.6%. 

Twitter Testing New Feature That Enables YouTube Videos To Be Played In-App On iOS

When not busy pondering whether politicians should be subject to the same rules as regular users, Twitter is actively developing new features and improvements for its platform. Just recently, the social media company has announced that it is currently testing a way to watch YouTube videos directly in your timeline.

But before you celebrate, it is worth noting that the feature is only being tested on the platform’s iOS app. Furthermore, much like the previously announced ability to share full-sized images, the new feature is only rolled out to a small group of users and is not made available to the public at this time.

This new ability to embed or watch YouTube videos on Twitter is a quality-of-life feature that has been a long time coming. Currently, videos that are shared on the platform will appear as thumbnails that links you to YouTube instead – an approach that is still maintained on rival social media platform Facebook.

As seen from the example shown above, tweets featuring these videos will come with a YouTube logo situated beneath the embedded player. Like the regular videos that are uploaded to Twitter, it appears that YouTube videos can also be set to be played either automatically or manually by the user.

Twitter has yet to reveal when it is planning to fully roll out this new feature to all of its users. Similarly, it is not known if the test will be expanded to Android users as well in the near future.

Twitter Considering Special Rules For Politicians; Has A Public Survey Underway

The banning of Donald Trump from Twitter made it evident that its general rules don’t quite apply to politicians in the same way. The social media company says it has been reviewing its policies for politicians. And now, the company is reaching out to the general public for opinions.

In its blog post, Twitter says it wants to hear from its users “whether or not they believe world leaders should be subject to the same rules as others”. Also part of its public survey is if politician rule violators should face the same punishment.

Of course, Twitter will be consulting more than just the general public. The company says that it is currently “consulting human rights experts, civil society organisations and academics”.

But back to the public survey, it looks like Twitter will be taking input from the public for just short of a month. The company says it will be taking responses starting today, 19 March, all the way until 12 April. The questionnaire will be available in 14 languages, which are Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Urdu.

Ultimately, it’s not something that will impact most users directly. Though it may be something you want to take part in if you want to have a say as to what happens to (mostly) US politicians when they tweet.

Twitter Testing New Feature That Allow Users To Tweet Full-Size Image Previews

Twitter is currently testing a new feature that will definitely make photographers and graphic artists happy. Revealed by company chief design officer Dantley Davis, the platform has rolled out to a small group of people on iOS and Android the ability to share full-size image previews of any orientation on their respective feeds.

At present, images shared on Twitter are automatically cropped to a default size when they are previewed on the main feed in order to maintain uniformity. To the frustration of creators on the platform, cropping often leaves out a good portion of an overall photo or artwork from being viewed by other users or followers – most commonly affecting those presented in vertical orientation. The images are only presented in their full size when the previews are clicked on – but in most cases, tweets such as these are often seen by users when scrolling through their respective feeds.

“With this test, we hope to learn if this new approach is better and what changes we need to make to provide a ‘what you see is what you get’ experience for Tweets with images,” Davis said. “People in the test will see that most Tweets with a single image in standard aspect ratio will appear uncropped when posted.”

However, he also noted that cropping will still occur only for ultra wide or tall images, where they will instead be centre-cropped accordingly. Those exempted from cropping during this test are photos or artwork that are presented in 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratios, which are the common formats shared on Twitter. 

Photographers and graphic artists tend to rely on Twitter to showcase their work, especially to reach a wider audience outside of certain platforms such as Behance and DeviantArt. Implementing this change not only would benefit these creators, but also improves the platform’s capability for image sharing – enabling it to be on par or better with competitors such as Instagram and Facebook.

As mentioned earlier, the full-size image preview feature is currently rolled out to selected users on mobile for testing. Twitter has not revealed any plans to have this feature available to the public or other supported platforms at this time.

Twitter Testing New e-Commerce Feature; Enables Users To Shop Directly Via Tweets

Twitter is looking to join the ranks of Facebook and Instagram in terms of providing users the ability to directly shop for products via its platform. As reported by social media consultant and ex-TheNextWeb journalist Matt Navarra, the social media platform is currently testing out a new Twitter Shopping Card that adds e-Commerce functionality to tweets that link to an online store’s product page.

Navarra credited the discovery to Qatar-based Twitter user Yasser Masood (@YasserM86) who also supplied screenshots showcasing the new feature. As seen from the screenshots, tweets that include links to product pages will feature a new layout which now displays the product’s name and price, the corresponding store’s name, and a large blue shop button.

When approached by TechCrunch, Twitter confirmed that it is indeed developing and trialling this new e-Commerce tool as a way to easily connect users and businesses via the platform. “This demand gives us confidence in the power of combining real-time conversation with an engaged and intentional audience,” a spokesperson explained. “Imagine easily discovering, and quickly purchasing a new skincare product or trendy sneaker from a brand you follow with only a few clicks.”

From what is being presented, this new approach is pitched to be a convenience for both users and businesses, rather than another potentially intrusive way of advertising products. Reason being that tweets such as these are controllable – only appearing on a user’s Twitter feed as long as they follow certain stores or brands that share these posts.

The reach for these e-Commerce based tweets will also be purely organic as it relies on retweets instead of popping up randomly as a suggestion on a user’s feed. The latter approach is often practiced by the platform’s closest competitor, Facebook, which usually slips in an ad or “sponsored” content in between user posts on its news feed.

Twitter noted that the feature is only made available to a small number of users for now, so don’t expect it to be publicly available anytime soon. It is also likely that the e-Commerce tool will potentially tie-in with the platform’s recently unveiled subscription-based Super Follow feature down the line. This allows for content creators or brands to grant subscribed followers with special perks such as exclusive content, loyalty rewards, and even discounts.

Twitter Introduces Five-Strikes Bans For COVID Vaccine Misinformation

As countries around the world begin vaccinating their citizens, Twitter is stepping up its efforts against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation by introducing a ban policy based on the number and severity of violations. Five strikes gets you permanently banned from Twitter.

But as the BBC noted, Twitter isn’t definitive on how it will act against misinformation, leaving itself a lot of wiggle room. The general idea is, less serious forms of misinformation will be labelled while more serious ones are outright deleted.

Then it gets more complicated. You get one strike if your tweet is labelled, but two if your tweet is removed. That’s important to remember because two to three strikes will lock your account for 12 hours. Four strikes will lock it for a week, and then five or more will send you to live in perma-ban land with Donald Trump.

Among other things, Twitter said it’s targeting content that misrepresents the safety of the vaccines, or claims the vaccines are part of a deliberate conspiracy to harm or control people. But it’s okay to raise questions about the effectiveness of the various vaccines as long as you don’t misrepresent research findings.

Since issuing earlier COVID guidelines, Twitter claimed it had taken down over 8,400 tweets and “challenged” 11.5 million accounts globally. That figure for removed tweets may seem underwhelming given what the other tech platforms have accomplished – in January, YouTube announced it had removed over 500,000 videos containing COVID misinformation over a period lasting nearly a year.

India Unveils New Rules For Twitter, Facebook And WhatsApp

India will be imposing new rules on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp, Reuters reported. The world’s largest democracy has increasingly come under criticism for Internet censorship after it shut down mobile Internet services in response to farmer protests near the country’s capital.

Under the new rules, large social media firms will have to establish a grievance redressal mechanism and, within three months, appoint staff to coordinate with the authorities. They must also take down content within 36 hours of being legally ordered to do so.

Companies will have to cooperate with investigations and other cyber security-related incidents within 72 hours of being asked. When legally ordered, they’ll have to reveal the identity of the person who wrote a message or post. Facebook and Twitter both said they would study the new rules, while WhatsApp declined to comment, Reuters said.

Indian farmers have taken to the streets and social media to protest new agricultural laws passed by the government. After employing Internet shutdowns in the past, the India government demanded that Twitter remove tweets with the hashtag “farmer genocide” and block certain accounts that gave support to the protests.

Twitter initially complied with the government’s orders but then reversed the blocks citing “insufficient justification”, the BBC said. The Indian government was furious, threatening to jail Twitter employers in India. Twitter then responded with a blog post explaining its suspension actions.

Going by the new rules, it’s probably safe to say that the Indian government isn’t satisfied.

Popular Leakster Suspended From Twitter After Sharing Battlefield 6 Rumour

Electronic Arts (EA) seems to be taking some drastic measures to quell any and all rumours and leaks pertaining to the next instalment of its Battlefield franchise. In fact, it’s so drastic that the publisher is being fingered in the recent suspension of a prominent leakster’s Twitter account.

The leakster in question is Tom Henderson, who used to go by the Twitter username of “@_TomHenderson_”. As per Henderson’s account, he says that his Twitter account was reportedly suspended after he tweeted information about Activision’s tentatively named Call of Duty 2021, as well content relating to Battlefield 6 (BF6). On top of that, he’s also been asked to remove any relevant videos from his YouTube channel.

The post has long been taken down, but based on details obtained from a Reddit thread discussing Henderson’s post, the leaked BF6 data pointed to the game seeing a return to a modern setting, as well as being a soft reboot of the series. Henderson also tweeted that BF3 essentially serves as the foundation of the game, and that it could simply launched as just “Battlefield”; a sign that EA may be choosing to forgo the numerics in future titles.

The last two points seem to match up with what we already reported earlier this month. To recap, EA confirmed that the next Battlefield instalment will introduce several new features, some of which include maps that can accommodate up to 128 players and a promise of “all-out warfare”, among other things.

At the time of writing, Henderson says that he is still waiting for an official word from Twitter.