Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Twitter (rebranded to X) added contributors from 18 new international locations to make sure the accuracy of the data being shared on the platform. Consequently, Group Notes — the data watchdog on X — now has contributors from 44 international locations in whole.
Ever since Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the entrepreneur claims he has envisioned reworking the platform into an all the pieces app, which concerned eradicating misinformation and stopping rip-off accounts from working brazenly. Following Twitter’s rebranding to X, Musk expedited the transformational drive given the aggressive efforts made by Threads and TikTok clones to dominate the text-based social media realm.
Please contribute to bettering the accuracy & context of data on this platform! https://t.co/ffSdL0bQPw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2023
Contributors from 44 international locations are tasked with vetting the data being shared on posts that draw larger consideration and are topic to being picked up by mainstream media. As a part of the rebranding effort, the X app refrains from addressing itself as a social media platform and as a substitute positions itself for “breaking information, leisure, sports activities, politics and all the pieces in between.”
“This platform aspires to be the most effective (or least unhealthy) supply of reality on the Web,” mentioned Musk when discussing the fact-checking system — Group Notes — on July 22.
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Furthermore, the entrepreneur made a user-centric choice by backtracking on his choice to completely change the X person interface to a darkish theme.
Lots of people have requested to maintain mild mode, so we are going to, however the default shall be darkish and dim shall be deleted
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2023
Whereas X continues its aggressive makes an attempt to reinvent itself, its largest competitors — Threads — launched a brand new function to resemble the unique Twitter.
Following its launch on July 5, Threads witnessed a record-breaking uptake of recent customers, surpassing 100 million customers inside 5 days. Sadly for Mark Zuckerberg, the engagement appears relatively short-lived.
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