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Elon Musk announces new ‘pinned post’ visibility feature on X

Twitter slams Microsoft about windows 11’s account registration

OUR BUREAU Microsoft account,” read the note.
Community Notes is intended to
San Francisco, CA
operate through crowdsourcing. Any-
lon Musk on Thursday an- one who has been using X for more
nounced a new user feature than six months has not recently bro-
Eon his social media platform ken its rules and has a verified phone
X (formerly known as Twitter). Musk number is eligible to participate in the
said the platform’s recommendation programme as a contributor.
algorithm will ensure that all of a user’s On Sunday, Elon Musk was less
followers see their pinned post every impressed with his own Community
48 hours. As a failsafe to deter “gaming Notes on X, as per Mashable.
of the system,” Musk also revealed that “Community Notes is failing
this will only apply for one pinned post here,” he wrote in a reply to his original
every two days. He added, “This only post. “This option no longer exists.”
applies to one pinned post every 48 Amusingly, Musk’s response has
hours to prevent gaming of the system.” now received another Community
On February 21, Musk posted on tent and advertisements on X, provid- “This is messed up. There used to be Note. Musk also highlighted concerns
X, “When you pin a post, it is now au- ing more options for a personalized an option to skip signing into or creat- about the potential access this offers
tomatically added to your highlights and seamless user experience. ing a Microsoft account.” to Microsoft’s AI in an X post, ques-
section. Soon, we will adjust the al- Earlier, Musk dropped a com- Soon, however, a Community tioning the account’s requirement for
gorithm to prioritize showing pinned plaint about his new laptop, which he Note was added to the post, stating fundamental operations.
posts to your followers. This will only said required him to register a Micro- that he was incorrect. The Community He also indicated that Microsoft
work once per day to prevent gaming soft account to use it. “Just bought a Notes feature on X is a fact-checking can turn off your computer, writing,
of the system.” new PC laptop and it won’t let me use tool that allows authors to give con- “But since they now require that you
As the platform continues to it unless I create a Microsoft account, text to potentially misleading posts. use their services just to use your com-
evolve, these changes are likely to re- which also means giving their AI ac- “It is still possible to set up the puter, @Microsoft can effectively
shape the way users interact with con- cess to my computer!” wrote Musk. latest version of Windows without a shut off your computer!”

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