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X Targets Clickbait and Stolen Reposts With New Creator Pay Changes
X is cutting aggregator payouts by 40% over two cycles and experimenting with tools to identify original content authors. The platform says repost accounts have…
X Eliminates Thousands of Accounts in New Bot Crackdown
X is conducting its largest bot purge to date, with Head of Product Nikita Bier confirming on April 9 that the platform is identifying and…
Musk Pressures SpaceX Investors to Advertise on X
Elon Musk has told banks, law firms and auditors competing for roles on SpaceX’s upcoming initial public offering that they need to purchase subscriptions to…
The Tweet That Changed Everything: How One Ordinary Message Gave Birth to Modern Internet
On March 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, a 29-year-old software engineer named Jack Dorsey typed seven words into a bare-bones web interface…
Why Your Favorite X Writers are Putting Their Best Content Behind a Paywall Today
The update introduces paywalled thread content, a redesigned subscriptions dashboard, shareable subscription cards, and faster onboarding, as X attempts to compete with Substack, Patreon, and…
X Moves to Stamp Out AI Spam… By Encouraging Grok Usage?
X announced new measures to combat artificial intelligence-powered bots while simultaneously promoting its own Grok AI chatbot for content creation, highlighting a fundamental contradiction facing…
The “Wallet” Update: Why X is About to Become Your New Bank Account
Elon Musk has publicly mapped out recent progress and future plans for X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, emphasizing a renewed focus on…
Goodbye Mars: Why SpaceX is Suddenly Obsessed with the Moon
Elon Musk has shifted SpaceX’s near-term focus from Mars colonization to building a permanent lunar settlement, a major pivot from the company’s long-standing Mars-first mission.…
X Announces New Pay-Per-Use API Pricing to Attract Developers Back
San Francisco–based social platform X (formerly Twitter) has announced a major overhaul of its application programming interface (API) pricing, introducing a usage-based pay-per-use model, industry…
Get Paid to Teach Grok: Musk Wants Your Crypto Brain (And He’s Paying Huge)
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has started recruiting cryptocurrency and finance experts to help train its AI systems to better understand the complex world…
X Copies Bluesky with New “Starterpacks” Discovery Feature
X is taking a page out of Bluesky’s playbook. The platform, owned by Elon Musk, is launching a new feature called “Starterpacks”. This directly mirrors…
Is Threads Actually Beating X in Terms of Daily Users?
Meta’s social media platform Threads is recording sustained user growth and increasing daily engagement, even as X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, continues to…
X Offers $1 Million Prize to Boost Long-Form Writing on the Platform
X has announced a $1 million cash prize for the author of the most popular long-form article published on the platform during its current payout…
