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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, has made X Pro — which was previously known as TweetDeck — a subscriber-only product.

Several users noted on the platform that while trying to access TweetDeck they were shown a popup prompting them to buy a Blue subscription.

The move isn’t entirely surprising, as on July 3, the company said that within 30 days TweetDeck would be accessible to only verified users.

Like a lot of Musk promised timelines, the social network got delayed in implementing the new rule by a few days.

Plenty of newsrooms, individual journalists, researchers and social media consultants used TweetDeck — which was acquired by Twitter in a $40 million deal in 2011 — to track multiple lists and trends on Twitter/X.

The previous management of the social network started testing a new version of the tool in 2021, but it wasn’t rolled out to a wider audience.


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