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Jay PetersJun 21, 2024

Livestreaming video is X’s newest paid feature.

The best part of X’s post is this reply.

Noam Chomsky isn’t dead yet

Elizabeth LopattoJun 18, 2024

Jay PetersJun 18, 2024

X is still marching toward offering payments.

Bloomberg has a big report on X’s efforts to let you make payments through the app, including that it has made agreements with payment processors like Stripe.

Bloomberg also found not-great financials from 2023:

[Documents] show that X generated $1.48 billion in revenue in the first six months of 2023, down almost 40% from the same period in 2022, before Musk bought the company.

If you want the TL;DR, read Kurt Wagner’s Threads thread.

X all-hands leaves staff with few answers on delayed promotions

Kylie RobisonJun 13, 2024

X is about to start hiding all likes

Kylie RobisonJun 11, 2024

Elizabeth LopattoJun 6, 2024

A cautionary tale about donating to anons, starring Jack Dorsey.

Dorsey donated 14 Bitcoins to Nostr’s anonymous founder in 2022. That founder is Giovanni Torres Parra, according to Business Insider. Parra is a devotee of “far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho,” who “claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses.”

Jack Dorsey gave $10 million to an anonymous founder with a deep devotion to a fascist 'guru'

[Insider]