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Twitter is Becoming X: 10 Features Coming to X

The controversial process that started with Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter for 44 billion dollars continues with radical changes.

In September 2022, Elon Musk created a buzz by purchasing the social media giant Twitter in a huge deal worth $ 44 billion. After this acquisition, many people were wondering what kind of transformation Twitter would undergo. With many new features that brought controversy, the expected radical change took place and Twitter experienced another historical moment. With the radical decisions made by Elon Musk, Twitter has now turned into a super application named "X"!

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In his statements on his social media account on July 22, 2023, Elon Musk stated that Twitter's name would be changed to "X" if a "decent logo" was designed. After the expected logo change became official, Twitter said goodbye to the whole world on July 24, 2023 and opened a brand new page with "X".

With this big change, Twitter's logo, twitter.com domain, brand and applications have all been updated to "X". However, there was no change in users' access to their old content. "Tweet" and similar old expressions continue to appear on the platform.

1- Domain Name Change:

X.com now redirects to Twitter.com. Soon the situation will be reversed and Twitter.com will turn into X.com

2- Concepts Are Changing

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3- Logo Change:

The Twitter bird is no longer in our lives. Twitter logo converted to X.

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4- Making Money from Twitter, X:

With X, you will now be able to earn money as a content creator! Here are the new developments:

Money will be earned for profile visits.
You don't need 5 million impressions per month
You don't need to have a subscribe button

5- Bookmarks:

It is a known fact that Twitter's bookmarking system is inadequate and useless. Here are the new developments in the bookmarking system.

It can be saved directly to the bookmark via the stream, without entering the tweet.
It will be possible to search among saved bookmarks.
There will be a weekly e-mail subscription system to remind you of bookmarks forgotten after being 

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6- Ban System:

A shadow ban system will be used on accounts that violate the policies. In other words, although accounts that violate the policy will continue to access X, all interaction with other accounts will be restricted. It will be the way to get rid of shadow ban.

7- Spam Reporting System:

It has been known that Elon Musk does not want bots and spam members on the platform since the day he announced that he was considering purchasing Twitter. Developments continue to be made for this. The spamming system will be made much easier. Since the current spam reporting process is long and tiring, improvements will be made in this regard.

8- Financial System:

Although it is not known exactly what development will be made in this regard, Elon Musk emphasized the importance of having an application like the Chinese giant WeChat and said, "If done correctly, X would be half of the global financial system." said.

9- Highlights:

Since the highlighted system, which allows content producers to categorize tweets, is not used much, an improvement in terms of user experience is expected for this feature.

10- Other X features:

dating platform
E-commerce platform
Integration with food ordering applications
New enhancements to audio and video content
A UPI-like payment and banking system