The rebranding of Tweetdeck has finally been announced. Tweetdeck users began noticing a paywall and the new name of the popular Twitter app on Tuesday, but there was no official communication from X, the company formerly known as Twitter, until today.
If you really want to extra verify yourself, I guess that’s coming. Let’s hope it’s not a system that’s only available to X Premium subscribers, but since you already have to pay to be verified, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case.
Those are words a US District Court Judge said to Twitter’s attorney, Ari Holtzblatt, during a February hearing about Donald Trump’s Twitter data. Holtzblatt had no idea:
MR. HOLTZBLATT: It is similar to tweets, and I don’t know more than that, Your Honor.
THE COURT: You don’t use “fleets.”
MR. HOLTZBLATT: I had not heard of fleets until this morning.
THE COURT: And was fleet used on this account?
MR. HOLTZBLATT: It is a vanishing tweet.
THE COURT: A vanishing tweet.
MR. HOLTZBLATT: I guess fleet — that makes sense, fleeting.
Yes, Mr. Holtzblatt. It sure does.
Friend of The Verge Cameron Faulkner showed me today that retweets are now called “reposts,” and as my colleague Alex Cranz wrote about recently, the old tweet button now says “post.”
I might be a bit late in noticing the changes, but I’m sad to see that the term “tweets” is pretty much gone from X. At least the official term wasn’t actually “x’s.”
The platform formerly known as Twitter is discontinuing its “Follower Objective” ads, Axios reports, which are the ones that include a prominent “Follow” button in the promoted post. The implication is that X wants to nudge advertisers towards more multimedia rich ad styles, even if that means giving up a format estimated to be worth over $100 million to the company annually.
When I copy post URLs from the share sheet in the X iOS app, they’re on my clipboard as x.com links, not twitter.com. On the web, x.com links still redirect to twitter.com, but I’m guessing things will fully flip over to X soon.
-Yaccarino said she has “autonomy” under Elon. “[He] focuses on new technology ... and I’m responsible for the rest.”
-She demurred on the Musk v Zuckerberg fight. “We’ll see if that cage match really does happen.”
-But she said Elon really is training for it. “I’ve had a front row seat of witnessing that.”
-As for Threads, she thinks Meta’s rival is skating to where the puck already is. “They may be building to what Twitter was ... and we’re focused on what X will be.”
ABC’s managing director David Anderson says the broadcaster will reduce its usage of X (formerly known as Twitter) to just four official accounts to allow its staff to focus on what provides “the most value.” He also cited an increase in “toxic interactions” on the platform.
In response, X owner Elon Musk accused the broadcaster of preferring “censorship-friendly social media.”
