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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
X says charges were dropped against a student who posted about free food.

X’s news account claimed responsibility for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne having “rescinded its disciplinary action against Juan David Campolargo,” a student who had gotten in trouble for an account that pointed to events on campus that had free food available.

The low-stakes case was the first apparent instance of the site defending a user in trouble for their posts. The Verge has reached out to the university for confirmation.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Even X is giving up on NFTs.

The Elon Musk-owned platform quietly removed the option for Premium subscribers to use NFTs as their profile pictures, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. X also scrubbed all mention of NFT profile pictures from its support page.

This comes a little less than one year after Meta ended tests that let users share NFTs on Instagram and Facebook.

X removes support for NFT profile pictures | TechCrunch

[TechCrunch]

The SEC’s X account was hijacked to post a fake approval of Bitcoin ETFsThe SEC’s X account was hijacked to post a fake approval of Bitcoin ETFs
Don Lemon, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jim Rome are pivoting to Twitter videosDon Lemon, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jim Rome are pivoting to Twitter videos
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
X is still promising peer to peer payments in 2024.

X CEO and former award-winning DEI executive Linda Yaccarino is promoting the company’s 2024 plans for AI and Grok, as well as the “video first” experience that included so many unauthorized Super Mario Bros. Movie streams.

Upcoming features mentioned include a “see dissimilar posts” option, as well as payments. The latter is something Elon mentioned when he took over the company, and, as Liz Lopatto explains, has been a pursuit of his for much longer than that.

Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X

Elizabeth Lopatto
X’s Grok chatbot has no reason to existX’s Grok chatbot has no reason to exist
Fun new deepfake consequence: more convincing crypto scamsFun new deepfake consequence: more convincing crypto scams
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
X once again removes headlines from article links.

That sentence may look familiar! Headlines were added back on the web yesterday, but this morning, I noticed they were gone.

X owner Elon Musk said in November that titles would appear over URL cards “in an upcoming release;” hopefully they officially roll out soon.

X once again adds headlines to article links — but with tiny text

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Maybe $1,000 per month was too expensive.

X (formerly Twitter) now has a “basic” tier for Verified Organizations, which gets you a gold checkmark badge (and a few other benefits) for $200 per month instead of $1,000 per month for “full access.”

While X claims this new tier is “designed for smaller businesses,” the more affordable plan is perhaps an admission that not enough businesses are paying for the more expensive plan.

X once again adds headlines to article links — but with tiny textX once again adds headlines to article links — but with tiny text
Jon Porter
Jon Porter
X said to be worth less than 29 percent of what Musk paid.

Fidelity, an investor that put over $300 million into Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now believes the company is worth 71.5 percent less than the $44 billion paid for it, Axios reports. That implies a total valuation of between $12 and $13 billion and includes a drop of 10.7 percent in the month of November alone when Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves.

Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity

[Axios]

Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
MrBeast to Elon: X is not a good video platform for creators.

Musk keeps asking creators to post their videos to X. Turns out there’s a very obvious reason why they’re not.

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