Twitter has stopped being what we always saw to become X, leaving behind the little blue bird that accompanied us for many years. Surely this morning you saw that your Twitter account became an X; it’s not a mistake, it’s just Elon Musk’s adjustments.
Those of us old-schoolers have been quite surprised, so we leave you a guide with what you should know about the (not-so-small) changes in one of our favorite social networks.
Goodbye Blue Birdie, Hello X
It was Elon Musk himself who revealed that the logo of the social network would have some changes, to create a ‘super app’ with a new vision for all users. “Soon we will say goodbye to the Twitter brand and, gradually, to all the birds,” said the owner of the platform.
Today it is already a reality, and the new logo is a white X on a black background. Now the company is called X Corp, and even the entrepreneur considers that the change should have been made a long time ago.
Will We No Longer Say “Tweet?”
No. Tweets, or trills as they were also known, will be replaced, and posts will now be referred to as “x’s.” The billionaire has already updated his profile picture with the new logo and added ‘X.com’ to his Twitter bio…, Twitter?
The Changes So Far
Musk confirmed that web users now have limits on the number of daily tweets that can be viewed. Originally they were distributed in this way:
- New unverified accounts: 300 posts per day.
- Unverified accounts: 600 posts per day
- Verified accounts: 6 thousand posts per day.
Obviously, this news upset users a lot, and Elon Musk decided to extend the reading limits.
- New unverified accounts: 500 posts per day
- Unverified accounts: 1000 posts per day
- Verified accounts: 10 thousand posts per day.
So far, it is not known why Musk put these control measures; however, they are temporary limits that at any time will be removed from the social network.
Another of X’s new rules is that unregistered users are completely blocked from reading content coming from the social network because, according to the entrepreneur, hundreds of organizations are aggressively mining Twitter data to the point of affecting the actual user experience.
Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
X’s Competition
The series of changes in Twitter has caused certain competitors to take advantage to launch new social networks and compensate for the failures of the previous one, a clear example is Threads.
Do you like the new look of Twitter… well, rather, X?
This story was written in Spanish by Kate Nateras in Cultura Colectiva
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