Friday, April 5, 2024, 11:40 AM
Users with many followers receive a free subscription to X and the famous blue brand of the platform, the company announced in a new 180 -degree turn in their policy.
Before the arrival of Elon Musk as the owner of the social network, the Blue ICT was used as a verification system for important accounts, such as celebrities, institutions and journalists.
But the billionaire – who bought the then Twitter for 44,000 million dollars in 2022 – was of the opinion that the system was unfair for foot users and the blue tics so that they were only for payment subscribers, which meant that thousands of holders would be of this position.
In the last minute on Wednesday, some users were surprised and even angry to see that the blue brand had been restored.
A message from the platform explained that they were a “influential member” of X, they received a free subscription. The web added that “the right to cancel the free subscription to your own discretion.”
Musk said last week that “All Accounts X with more than 2500 verified subscribers will get free premium functions and accounts with more than 5,000, get free premium+ free.”
Premium benefits
Premium or Premium+ benefits include a reduction in advertisements and more positioning in the feeds of the platform, as well as access to grock, the artificial intelligence chatbot from X.
Some users who received the Blue ICT saw it as a musk bet to breathe new life into the platform that is going on difficulties. «Translation: pay 8 dollars? It’s a joke. Help me. But don’t say too much for free about me or the garbage of my Babel, “said actor Jeffrey Wright, one of the chosen ones, in an X post.
Moreover, the Musk platform has announced that there is an important novelty with regard to X. «The time of taxpayers is valuable and it is better to invest it by reviewing high -quality notes. We have just implemented an update to improve the quality of the proposed notes by making it easier for accounts to lose the writing capacity if people from different views are of the opinion that their notes are not useful. If an employee now has a writing effect or negative and writes a memorandum that reaches the non -usual state, the writing capacity will be blocked and it must win again ».
Since Musk bought the company in October 2022, the advertising company of the platform collapsed, hit by mass dismissal and content aircraft.
On Tuesday, X appointed the veteran of the Kylie Mcroberts Company as new security responsible, in an attempt to support the income from advertisements that remains the most important source of income.
According to most sector statistics, X has lost users since Musk has taken real estate, but the company states that the activity on the site has grown.
