The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
I haven’t been keeping up with the changes to X but I checked out their videos site (xvideos, I presume) and it seems like it’s mostly porn with the occasional Tesla shareholder meeting keynote.
The keynotes seem a bit incongruous and I could do without them. Otherwise, it doesn’t seem like it’s gone too far downhill.
If X is becoming a video site, Xvideos should absolutely sue them for infringement on their name.
As a porn site they could maybe go toe to toe with the now much diminished twixxer
It’s amazing watching a platform with no substantial competitor kill itself so badly. AltaVista was killed by Google, MySpace was killed by Facebook, Twitter is killed by the ramblings of the lunatic who bought it.
How Elon deals with advertising complaints: “Go advertise someplace else.”
Advertisers:
Elon’s statements are the verbal equivalent of getting drunk and vomitting on a wall. Stuff comes up that you never expected to see, it creates a huge mess, and whatever sticks, sticks.
The microblogging platform that once limited posts to 140 characters is now a “video-first” platform?
I don’t see a problem as long as the videos are capped at 140 characters
If Twitter’s a video-first platform, then Twitch is a text-first platform.
I can’t wait for X to transition finally into “no longer existing”
Thing is, it probably won’t. MySpace is still around. LiveJournal is still around. Big social media platforms don’t tend to stop existing. But they do stop being culturally and socially relevant, and that’s what I hope comes sooner rather than later to Twitter: irrelevancy.
Preach!
Musk is to Zuckerberg what Donald Trump is to Sheldon Adelson. They’re in the same business, but one is a ruthless, highly-adapted predator owning the industry and making a killing, while the other is a large adult failson frittering away his inheritance cosplaying as the other guy and managing to go bankrupt running a casino.
So can we now stop embedding Twits in articles instead of simply including the pictures?
Meta already did the “pivot to video” scam. I doubt most media outlets are going to fall for it again.
It’s an interesting claim.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a platform struggle more with video than Twitter. Everything looks like it’s using RealPlayer. It’s the only platform where the Japanese wouldn’t have to censor their porn before uploading.
With this guy, I can only assume he’s saying so because video ads generate more profit.
Twitter has no skin in the video serving game and they have no USP there (aside from famously allowing porn). When he realizes the folly of his actions, he’ll do another U-turn like the many he’s done since purchasing Twitter.
I didn’t know this guy’s character before he bought Twitter but am now fully convinced he’s but a charlatan who’s always trying to seek the popular ‘vote’ as a billionaire.
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I haven’t visit twitter/X for a while. A “video-first platform” typically supports live streams, captions/subtitles and 4k videos. Does X supports these?
Xitter is running out of feet to shoot itself in.
Twitter videos don’t even load half the time on mobile browsers.
