Another day, another chaotic tech drama courtesy of Elon Musk’s digital playground. X (formerly known as Twitter) decided to play a bizarre game of location tag, rolling out a feature that reveals users’ country of origin - only to yank it back into the digital shadows faster than you can say “tech transparency”.

In a late-night tech rollercoaster, users briefly glimpsed a new “About this account” page that exposed their precise geographic origin based on IP address. Unlike the traditional user-input location field, this feature was pulling back the curtain on exactly where people were posting from.

The Location Location

The feature seemed promising for those worried about misinformation and potential foreign interference. Imagine being able to see if that political rant is coming from a bot farm thousands of miles away! But X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, quickly discovered some… shall we say, “geographical glitches”.

Technical Difficulties

Some users reported wild inaccuracies - like a Canadian user suddenly appearing as being from the United States, courtesy of what Bier cryptically described as “Starlink throwing us off”. Talk about a geolocation identity crisis.

The Great Vanishing Act

As quickly as the feature appeared, it disappeared. Bier hinted that they’re working on fixing location discrepancies, promising indicators for VPN registrations in upcoming updates. Because nothing says “cutting-edge tech” like a feature that can’t even pinpoint your actual location.

Stay tuned, tech adventurers - in the wild world of X, today’s bug might just be tomorrow’s “revolutionary” feature.