After altering its emblem, X modified its official handles from ‘@Twitter’ to ‘@X’. Entry to the previous Twitter deal with is not accessible and it now states, “This account is not energetic. Observe @X for updates”.
All of the previous tweets from the previous official deal with are actually accessible underneath ‘@X’. The corporate has additionally dropped ‘Twitter’ from its Blue subscription service, which can now be referred to as Blue Subscription and its deal with has additionally modified to ‘@XBlue’.
Along with this, a lot of the previous official Twitter accounts have both eliminated the phrase Twitter from their names or modified it to X. For instance, @Help, @Xdevelopers, and @API are the brand new names for @TwitterSupport, @TwitterDev and @TwitterAPI.
The ‘@X’ account belonged to Gene X Hwang, a photographer/videographer from Orange Images, till yesterday, as reported by a media organisation.
Hwang mentioned that X wrote him an e-mail saying that the ‘@X’ account is said to X Corp., so he would get a brand new deal with. The corporate additionally mentioned it could transfer all his information, together with followers and following information, to his new deal with. Additionally they gave him the choice to answer to the e-mail to inform X if he most popular some other deal with. The corporate thanked him with merch and a proposal to go to HQ if he needed to satisfy the X individuals, as reported by TechCrunch.
On-line usernames which are extremely sought-after can fetch 1000’s of {dollars} when bought on a secondary market. Nonetheless, Hwang didn’t get any cash from X.
“It will have been good for them to compensate for it because it did have numerous worth to me, however issues are what they’re,” TechCrunch quotes Hwang as saying. “Perhaps I ought to ask for the chook from the signal since they have been dismantling that yesterday too,” Hwang joked.
In the meantime, X customers can now obtain movies shared by different customers on the platform. This new function is offered to Twitter Blue subscribers solely.
“Verified customers can obtain movies from sure Tweets for offline viewing, or to get inventive and remix these movies to create new content material,” in accordance with an article on X Assist Centre.
All new movies may be downloaded by verified X customers except the uploader chooses to not enable it. Additionally, this function is not going to work for verified account customers who’re underneath the age of 18 years.
Moreover, X has launched a brand new privateness setting, which can allow Twitter Blue subscribers to set their accounts to personal. As soon as enabled this function will enable solely their accepted followers to view and obtain their movies.
