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Elon Musk to launch xAI’s animated AI chatbot ‘Grok’ next week
23Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk to launch xAI’s animated AI chatbot ‘Grok’ next week

[ad_1] In a move to enhance user experience, Elon Musk, owner of X, has confirmed the imminent release of the AI chatbot, Grok, exclusively for X Premium+ subscribers. Musk hinted at the upcoming integration, asserting that Grok would be available to Premium+ users starting next week. A recent revelation by app researcher Nima Owji showcased images indicating the seamless addition of Grok to X's online application, accessible through twitter.com/i/grok. Screenshots hinted at invitations for non-Premium+ subscribers to upgrade in order to gain access to Grok, with one displaying a text entry box labelled "Ask Grok '' for user interaction.Grok's Unique PersonaAI Chatbot Grok, introduced to a select group of testers on November 4, emerges as Musk's response to existing AI chatbots like Cha...
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Twitter adds new feature to its X Blue subscription; Lets users hide the verification checkmark
2Aug By adminNo Comments
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Twitter adds new feature to its X Blue subscription; Lets users hide the verification checkmark

[ad_1] Elon Musk has been trying to make X (formerly known as Twitter) appealing to advertisers again. In the last few weeks, he has rebranded the company, promised to turn X into an everything app, is working towards bringing a new video feed, started ad revenue sharing for verified users, and is adding new features to its X Blue subscription (formerly Twitter Blue subscription). The latest addition to the stack is a new toggle button that will allow users to show or hide the verification checkmark, which is also known as the ‘blue tick'.A Twitter user posted images from the X Blue settings to showcase the new feature. He said, “The ability to hide your checkmark from X Blue is now live, just popped up for me”. Interestingly, the setting also comes with a message that says “some featur...
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Twitter Blue Checks for Dead Celebrities Add to Verification Confusion
24Apr By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Blue Checks for Dead Celebrities Add to Verification Confusion

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. users already having to navigate a flurry of fake accounts after the removal of legacy blue ticks are noticing more inconsistencies: personalities who have been dead for years supposedly holding paid verification accounts.People were confused after seeing the Twitter profiles of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and National Basketball Association player Kobe Bryant sporting the blue ticks. Bourdain died in 2018, and Bryant in 2020. Twitter's Legacy Blue Checks Are Gone, Stirring Confusion Others were angered by the addition of blue ticks for profiles of people such as prominent journalist and columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018.While an explanation accompanying the ticks said the “account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and veri...
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Twitter reinstates blue ticks for some media, celebrities
24Apr By adminNo Comments
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Twitter reinstates blue ticks for some media, celebrities

[ad_1] Twitter's blue ticks were reinstated on some media, celebrity, and other high profile accounts Saturday - a move protested by many of the recipients.Once a free sign of authenticity and fame, blue ticks must now be bought by subscribers for $8 a month, Twitter says. Non-paying accounts that had a blue tick lost it on Thursday, as owner Elon Musk implemented a strategy, dubbed "Twitter Blue", to generate new revenue, announced last year. Only a tiny fraction of blue-ticked users subscribed -- less than 5 percent of the 407,000 profiles affected, according to Travis Brown, a Berlin-based software developer who tracks social-media platforms.But on Friday and Saturday, a number of celebrities regained their blue ticks, seemingly without action on their part, including author Stephen ...
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Twitter takes away legacy Blue ticks! SRK, Virat Kohli, Pope, more lose verification
21Apr By adminNo Comments
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Twitter takes away legacy Blue ticks! SRK, Virat Kohli, Pope, more lose verification

[ad_1] After months of debate following CEO Elon Musk's announcement that legacy blue ticks will be disappearing, Twitter finally removed the verification for everyone who was not already subscribed to Twitter Blue yesterday, April 20. The move, which has received a generally negative response from the user base, came last night when several users tweeted about losing their verification mark. Many notable personalities, including the Pope, actor Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, cricketer Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, and political leaders such as UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Rahul Gandhi lost their verified status.While talks around removing legacy verification have been going on ever since Musk took over Twitter, however, due to backlash, the process was delayed. On April 11, Musk twe...
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Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark
28Mar By adminNo Comments
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Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark

[ad_1] William Shatner, Monica Lewinsky and other prolific Twitter commentators — some household names, others little-known journalists — could soon be losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity on the social media platform.They could get the marks back by paying up to $11 a month. But some longtime users, including 92-year-old Star Trek legend Shatner, have balked at buying the premium service championed by Twitter's billionaire owner and chief executive Elon Musk. After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Friday is the deadline for celebrities, journalists and others who'd been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status. "It will be glorious," he tweeted Monday, in response to a Twitter user who noted that Friday is also April Fools Day.A...
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In big blow, Twitter Blue records only $11 million in revenue on Mobile in 3 months
25Mar By adminNo Comments
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In big blow, Twitter Blue records only $11 million in revenue on Mobile in 3 months

[ad_1] One of the biggest bets made by Twitter CEO Elon Musk after he took the reins of the company was to relaunch Twitter Blue, a subscription service which gives users premium features, in order to increase the company's revenue stream and to decrease the reliance on advertisers. One of the most lucrative features included in the subscription is blue tick verification, which earlier was reserved for notable people and organizations. But after an uproar over the verification process, the company relaunched the new Twitter Blue on December 12 with a better verification process to keep trolls away. However, three months after its launch, it has been revealed that the subscription service has only managed to get a revenue of $11 million from mobile devices.The information around the fina...
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