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Elon Musk has beendetailing his visionfor X ’s , formerly Twitter ’s , shift into an “ everything app , ” admit payment , creator cock , shopping and more , sinceacquiringthe social meshwork over a year ago . Now , the companionship is committing to a time frame . In an declaration today , X shared its roadmap for the year ahead , which will include AI - power experience and the launching of peer - to - peer payment , among other enterprisingness .
While Musk ’s time frame to establish products do n’t always hold back up , X has been impress frontwards to acquire the necessary license to handle defrayal processing over the past several month . As of December , X waslicensed for defrayment processingin a dozen U.S. states , and today that number stands at 14 , with the recent additions of Arkansas and Pennsylvania .
In Musk ’s visual modality , X users will be able to send money to others on the political platform and take out those fund to authenticated banking company accounts . Healso toyed with the ideaof offering users high-pitched - yield money market accounts further down the line to advance them to hold in more of their cash on X.
The latter has been a particular reference of vexation for X advertisers , who have found that despite X ’s measures , their ads were placed next to toxic cognitive content or hate speech , conduct many to withdraw . Musk , speak at an consequence in November , toldfleeing advertisersto“go f * * * ” themselves , and X hasshifted to small - to - average - sized advertisersto fill the void . Still , the company is trying to court advertisers , as a recent situation about itsvertical video advert firebrand prophylactic initiativesrevealed sooner this week .
xAI , Musk ’s AI fellowship , will additionally power consumer - facing features like today ’s “ See Similar Posts , ” as well as an approaching “ See Dissimilar Posts ” feature , which will boost people to “ challenge their perspectives , ” the post explains . ( That hope , however , could be difficult to deliver if Xcontinues to suspend journalistsfrom its platform . )
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The company also offered an update on its progress over the past year , which let in the launching of foresightful - grade telecasting , audio and TV calling , X Hiring ( job hunting ) , the elaboration of Communities , Grok , creator tools and more . It said that drug user have since look out “ 130 years ’ Charles Frederick Worth of video ” 30 minutes or long and engaged in call with an average length of 10 instant . In improver , 80,000 + God Almighty have receive payouts via X ’s revenue - communion program in less than a year ’s time , but X did not bring home the bacon a figure .
