Elon Musk’s purge at X, formerly Twitter, has already begun; goodbye to bots

by times news cr

2024-04-08 14:30:40

Elon Muskowner of X, formerly Twitter, keeps doing his thing and The purge has already begun to say goodbye to the bots just as he promised.

It was in October 2022 when Elon Musk, The 52-year-old billionaire businessman completed the purchase of the social network then called Twitter.

The businessman promised to make a series of changes to the platform of the extinct blue bird, such as changing the name and logo to X.

However, Elon Musk also committed to eradicating the use of bots on the social network through a series of strategies to verify the veracity of user accounts.

Although it has been more than a year since Twitter’s transition to X, most Internet users complain about the changes implemented by Elon Musk, who claim that it has damaged the social network.

The purge has already begun; Elon Musk begins debugging bots and trolls in X, formerly Twitter

Through a publication in X, antes Twitter, Elon Musk announced from his personal account that he start the purge against bots and trolls on the social network.

This was announced at 08:58 a.m. today, Thursday, April 4, so throughout this day The system will begin to purge all those fake accounts used as bots and trolls.

Elon Musk warned that the people responsible for the bots y trolls They will be tracked and identified by X Corp and “the full force of the law” will be applied to them.

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In case legitimate accounts are deleted during the purge process, Elon Musk He asked affected users to contact him directly at his personal account or the X Engineering account.

Elon Musk is going to redesign X, formerly Twitter, and will eliminate these functions

In addition to bot purge, Elon Musk also recently announced that he will seek a redesign to X, formerly Twitter.

On March 7, the billionaire businessman said that he wants to “reduce visual noise and make the platform cleaner,” so he will eliminate some functions of X.

The next big change Elon Musk a X It will be the removal of ‘like’, ‘repost’ and ‘reply’ buttons from the beginning of the platform.

Nevertheless, Elon Musk He assured that it will not be a permanent elimination, since the buttons will continue to appear inside each publication.

Additionally, it will implement new scrolling features to interact with posts– Swipe right to reply, left to bookmark, and hold to see the rest of the options.

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2024-04-08 14:30:40

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