Main Topic: Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X and the intellectual property issues surrounding it.
Key Points:
1. Elon Musk announced the rebranding of Twitter to X, but his company did not hold the @X account, which belonged to a San Francisco photographer since 2007.
2. The sudden takeover of the handle highlights the branding and intellectual property rights issues that Musk's company now faces.
3. Musk's use of the X logo and potential trademarking of the brand could lead to legal challenges from other companies that use the letter X in the tech or internet services context.
Main topic: Elon Musk-owned social network X (formerly Twitter) has made TweetDeck a subscriber-only product.
Key points:
1. TweetDeck, previously a free tool, is now only accessible to subscribers of X Pro.
2. This move affects social media managers, journalists, and power users who relied on TweetDeck for tracking lists and trends on Twitter/X.
3. Under Musk's ownership, X has introduced various subscription offerings, including verification marks, longer text and video posts, fewer ads, encryption in DMs, and ad revenue sharing.
Hint on Elon Musk: Elon Musk is the owner of social network X (formerly Twitter) and has implemented changes such as making TweetDeck a subscriber-only product and introducing various subscription offerings.
Elon Musk believes that X, formerly Twitter, could eventually reach a market cap of $1 trillion, expressing optimism about its future valuation.
Elon Musk's company, X (formerly Twitter), has introduced a new feature for verified organizations to post job listings on the platform, allowing them to reach millions of candidates and connect them to the organization's website for applications.
Elon Musk's social network, formerly known as Twitter and now called X, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases filed by ex-employees after Musk took over the company, leading to potential filing fees of $3.5 million, as revealed in a recent court filing. The cases are part of a lawsuit in a Delaware district court brought by a former senior staff network engineer, Chris Woodfield, who alleges that X failed to pay his severance and delayed the dispute resolution process by not paying the necessary fees.
Elon Musk's Twitter, now rebranded as X, has obtained a currency transmitter license in Rhode Island, indicating a possible move towards crypto payments and turning the platform into an all-in-one app like China's WeChat.
Twitter/X owner Elon Musk is planning to launch video and audio calls on the social media platform, which will be available on all major platforms and will not require a phone number.
Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is updating its privacy policy to collect users' biometric and personal data, raising concerns about privacy and the potential for misuse of information.
Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter and renamed it to X.com in order to fulfill his ambition of creating an "everything app" that combines financial transactions and social connections, according to his official biographer Walter Isaacson.
Elon Musk's Subscriptions feature on X (formerly Twitter) is not gaining significant traction, with Musk having only 40,000 subscribers out of his 155 million followers, suggesting that it is not a successful tool in the creator economy.
Elon Musk is considering turning the social network, formerly known as Twitter, into a subscription-based platform in order to eliminate bots and address financial issues.
Elon Musk suggests that Twitter may no longer be free and is considering implementing a small monthly payment to combat bots on the platform.
Elon Musk suggests that users of X (formerly Twitter) may have to pay for access to the platform in order to counter bots, with a small monthly payment being considered as a defense against fake accounts.
Elon Musk considers introducing a fee for X (formerly known as Twitter) users to address the increasing presence of bots on the platform, OpenAI launches DALL-E 3, Cisco acquires Splunk for $28 billion, and other major tech news happened this week.
Under Elon Musk's leadership, Twitter, now referred to as X, has experienced a decline in daily active users, losing tens of millions or 11.6% of users since his acquisition of the company, with the revised count of 245 million daily active users still representing a loss of approximately 3.7%.
Activist investor Bill Ackman expresses his admiration for Elon Musk and suggests that a deal between Musk and X (formerly known as Twitter) would be welcome, pointing out X's crushing debt load as a possible reason for Musk to agree to the deal and take a part of X public again.
Elon Musk's company, X Corp., is facing a trademark infringement lawsuit from a social media ad agency, X Social Media, over the rebranding of Twitter to "X," with the agency arguing that the rebranding has caused consumer confusion and harm to its own "X Social Media Mark."
Elon Musk is expanding X's features to include game streaming and live shopping in an effort to attract more users, with the company currently testing basic Twitch-like game streaming accessible to X Premium subscribers and partnering with Paris Hilton for live shopping programs.
Elon Musk's platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is now serving users clickbait advertisements that cannot be blocked, reported, or easily identified as ads.
Elon Musk has been warned by a European regulator about the proliferation of illegal content and disinformation on X (formerly known as Twitter) during the Israel-Hamas conflict, with potential fines of up to 6% of the company's annual revenue for non-compliance.
The European Union has warned Elon Musk that his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is spreading illegal content and disinformation following the Hamas attacks on Israel, urging him to update content enforcement policies and remove violating content in a timely manner.
Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, now called X, is facing accusations of retaliatory firings and violations of labor rights as a former employee files a complaint alleging illegal termination for challenging the company's return-to-office policy.
Australian regulator fines Elon Musk's social media platform X $386,000 for failing to cooperate with an anti-child abuse probe, dealing a blow to a company struggling with advertiser complaints about lax content moderation.
Social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has started charging new users in the Philippines and New Zealand an annual fee to access basic features, with plans to expand this fee globally in the future.
Twitter, now known as X, will test a $1 annual subscription fee for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines as part of its efforts to combat spam and bot activity, with users who don't pay only able to view posts and follow accounts.
