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Elon Musk does huge U-turn; says will bring back news headlines from link previews on X

24Nov

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Elon Musk does huge U-turn; says will bring back news headlines from link previews on X

[ad_1] Elon Musk has announced that news articles shared on X (formerly Twitter) will once again feature headlines, instead of just the image in the URL card. This move has reversed his controversial decision from October 2023, when he removed headlines from news articles shared on the platform to reduce the height of the preview window and improve the aesthetics. At the time, many users complained that it would be difficult to contextualize the content of a URL with just the header image.Musk made the announcement yesterday in a post on X where he said, “In an upcoming release, X will overlay title in the upper portion of the image of a URL card”. Interestingly, the reversal will not put the headline back to its original position but at the top of the link preview window, as per the po...

Elon Musk announces posts on X added to the Highlights tab will get a greater reach

22Nov

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Elon Musk announces posts on X added to the Highlights tab will get a greater reach

[ad_1] Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) is going through advertising revenue troubles after many of its major advertisers such as Apple, IBM, Comcast, and others have pulled ads from the platform. But despite the hiccup, the platform continues to bring new features for the users. In a new announcement that came directly from Musk, the platform is introducing another way for its Premium subscribers to get a larger reach on the platform, this time with some strategic control over it. Musk has revealed that adding posts to the Highlights tab, which was introduced in August, will enable users to reach more users.Announcing the new feature through a post on X, Musk said, “Posts on X that are added to your highlights tab will get greater reach”. At the same time, Musk warned the users fro...

Elon Musk may be selling some X user handles for a minimum of $50000

4Nov

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Elon Musk may be selling some X user handles for a minimum of $50000

[ad_1] X (formerly Twitter) is going through a transformative period. Recently, Elon Musk, the owner of the platform, revealed his plans to turn it into an ‘everything app'. The company is also releasing new features at a break-neck pace. Some of these features are also exclusive to the X Premium members, who pay a monthly subscription fee, to improve its revenue. Now, a new report has highlighted that X is also selling off old user handles to others at a massive price tag of $50000 and up. This revelation has emerged after some reports mentioned that X may actually start a marketplace where users can sell their handles to other users, and the platform takes a cut.Forbes found emails from the team within the company that has started working on a project to create a marketplace “for the ...

Elon Musk’s X to roll out pinned hashtags in Communities; Check out this exciting benefit

2Nov

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Elon Musk’s X to roll out pinned hashtags in Communities; Check out this exciting benefit

[ad_1] We recently found out about X owner Elon Musk's plans to turn the social media platform into an “everything app”, after his speech from the all-hands meeting with the employees was leaked. He talked a lot about Communities, highlighting that it is growing at a rapid pace. Perhaps to double down on that growth, X will soon get another new feature in Communities. This new feature, pinned hashtag, will allow group admins to pin certain hashtags at the top and allow users to follow a certain topic within the group.AndroidAuthority found a string of codes with the latest version of X for Android, where this hidden feature was found. The feature not being present at the moment could be due to the developers deactivating it to conduct tests, or to later release with additional lines of ...

Elon Musk’s X could get a new Premium feature for Enhanced Discovery

17Oct

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Elon Musk’s X could get a new Premium feature for Enhanced Discovery

[ad_1] By now, it is clear that Elon Musk is heavily pushing to expand the premium user base on X (formerly Twitter). In 2023 alone, the platform has introduced multiple exclusive features for its X Premium subscription. Some of these features have also proven to be controversial, and users have argued that they restrict the existing features from free users, calling them draconian. Adding to the list, a new report has revealed that X is now working on yet another premium feature called Enhanced Discovery. It can be used to check similar or related features.According to a report by Android Authority, which found the feature in the string of the latest beta version of X for Android, the Enhanced Discovery feature has been added in the backend. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Enhan...

Elon Musk’s X gets a new feature; Users can block replies from unverified accounts

10Oct

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Elon Musk’s X gets a new feature; Users can block replies from unverified accounts

[ad_1] X (formerly Twitter) has now added a new feature, which is being deemed controversial by a section of the users. The Elon Musk-owned social media platform now lets users restrict the replies to a post to only those who are verified by X, meaning they have the $7.99 monthly subscription. At the moment, X has not made it the default option, and ‘everyone can reply' is still set as default unless the user changes it. Some users are calling this feature a ‘paywall' to reply to posts, something which is considered a basic feature for social media platforms.The feature was announced earlier today by the official account of X, and it posted, “you can now limit replies to verified users” along with an image that showed the option using which unverified accounts can be locked out. Some us...

1Sep

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Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will have voice and video calls, updates privacy policy

[ad_1] Elon Musk said Thursday that his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will give users the ability to make voice and video calls on the platform. Musk, who has a history of making proclamations about coming features and policies that have not always come to fruition, did not say when the features would be available to users.The company also updated its privacy policies that will allow for the collection of biometric data and employment history, among other information. Musk posted on the former Twitter that the site's voice and video calls will work on Apple and Android devices as well as on computers, with “No phone numbers needed.” Rival social platforms already offer voice and video calls. Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, introduced voice and video cal...

Elon Musk says X, the new Twitter, will have just the Dark mode soon

28Jul

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Elon Musk says X, the new Twitter, will have just the Dark mode soon

[ad_1] It has become hard to predict what goes on in the mind of X (formerly known as Twitter) owner Elon Musk ever since he muscled an entire rebranding campaign onto the platform within just 3 days. And the successful maneuvering of the move has perhaps made the billionaire even more 'unhinged', at least that is what social media is insinuating. Yesterday, he announced in a tweet, that going forward, the platform will only support dark mode, bringing an instant worry to all those who do not prefer it since reading light-colored text on a dark background can be difficult sometimes. But Musk said, “It is better in every way”.On July 27, Musk tweeted. replying to an unrelated quote retweet about whether changing the blue tick to the black tick (a fan request) would not make sense in dark...