Elon Musk on Tuesday said that his social media platform X "is the future." The billionaire was responding to a post which claimed that the number of visits to news websites is declining year over year while traffic for X is up 22.3% YoY.
"Y-o-Y change in visits for news websites is declining and is already in negative. While traffic for 𝕏 is up 22.3% Y-o-Y and is currently at its peak in popularity," a user said.
The post contains a graph depicting the percentage change in visits for various news websites. BBC, New York Times, The Guardian were some of the news websites mentioned in the post.
𝕏 is the future https://t.co/wbZM2ZKlqE
January 15, 2024Meanwhile, Elon Musk on Tuesday expressed happiness after YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, posted his first video on X.
That's after a back-and-forth dating back years, during which the Tesla Inc. chief executive traded messages with the online celeb about X's potential, Bloomberg reported.
MrBeast currently has more than 25 million X followers — still a fraction of his YouTube footprint. His tweet had racked up close to 32 million views as of Tuesday afternoon.
AdvertisementFirst MrBeast video posted directly on 𝕏! https://t.co/ybWNeiVlAb
January 16, 2024Musk's vision is to transform the social media platform he took over in 2022 into what he calls “the everything app,” or a collection of the services that users now turn to on their smartphones.
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