Making users pay is only way to stop bots taking over platform
A big part of what has led to social media platform Twitter/X’s current popularity is the lack of fees for signing up. The “public square” role the platform has often claimed only works if the public can actually access it. But that’s been significantly changed since Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of the platform for $44
X (formerly Twitter) users reported an outage for a brief period on Thursday. Several users were having trouble accessing the site due to a technical issue. According to Downdetector, which detects and monitors online outages and difficulties, users reported being unable to use the platform. Soon after the outage, many netizens were left confused and took to the microblogging platform asking if X is not working.While a few asked if the platform is down, others took the route of hilarity and made...
Want to join X (formerly Twitter) or create a new account? Well, it’s going to cost you. Elon Musk revealed Monday that new users on the site will have to begin paying a “small fee” annually in hopes of limiting bots on the site. Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the […]
Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter), encountered a significant setback today as users encountered difficulties accessing the platform. Reports from Downdetector, a service dedicated to tracking and monitoring online outages and problems, revealed that a notable portion of users experienced issues accessing the site.Downdetector, which compiles status reports from various sources, including user feedback, highlighted the widespread nature of the problem. Users from across...
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A non-permanent fee for new users could soon be Elon Musk's X's only way to stop bots. New users on X could soon be met with a small fee before they can post, as Elon Musk unveils it is the "only way" to help stop bots from plaguing the platform.
To strengthen his artificial intelligence (AI) company, Elon Musk urged ambitious individuals to join his groundbreaking initiative, xAI. This wide-ranging project seeks engineers, designers, and staff for product development, data analysis, and infrastructure management."Join xAI," the tech tycoon wrote in a cross-post. Musk shared a link to his AI company's Careers page in the cross-post. Grok, an AI-powered chatbot launched in 2023, is at the forefront of this burgeoning enterprise. xAI is...
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he found millions of documents that showed collusion between the White House and Twitter employees to censor Americans. These became known as the Twitter files. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one American specifically targeted in those documents. “The government put pressure on a corporation to silence you. That is, by most legal standards, that would be a violation of the First Amendment,” Dave Rubin says. Rather than ignoring them, Musk then invited...
Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson raised concerns Friday about the integrity of US elections in a joint appearance at Mar-a-Lago that featured false claims about voting, immigration and other topics. Trump’s team billed the event as being about “election integrity”– a phrase he often uses to describe the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, as well as his unfounded claims about future mass voter fraud. Here’s a breakdown of some of the false claims from their...
Twitter recently imposed blue checkmarks, previously assigned only to people paying to use the site, on all users meeting a certain threshold of paid followers. And soon users assigned blue checkmarks will no longer be able to hide them. The blue checkmark, originally a form of verification and implicit status, was turned into a paid feature after Elon Musk's takeover of the site. — Read the rest