Nikita Bier (@nikitabier)

@stephenbalaban For consumer, it has always been about distribution. And any distribution channel that an LLM comes up with has already saturated for the last 3 years. Effectively, you’re identifying and cataloguing temporary secrets.

@MedusaOnchain This is old. I paused doing growth advisory when I joined X. But it was a fun side gig and I got a lot of apps to No. 1 in the App Store and some went on to raise at +$1B valuations. I might try it again in the winter.

What are you talking about? I literally built Cashtags, allowing people to add Solana and Ethereum charts directly into posts—with trade buttons coming soon. You can even paste contract addresses for newly minted tokens. There wasn’t a single feature on X for crypto traders until I joined. The bull market is starting because the Treasury announced it’s buying back bonds and debasing the dollar.

With cancer vaccines now being discovered with AI ($MRNA), it seems that the US government might actually grow its way out of its budget deficit. It feels like we're in the early innings of the healthcare system becoming unburdened by many terminal illnesses.

The hardest part about hiring great leaders for X is that you need someone who can be an outstanding voice on the platform -- but also someone who is exceptional at trench warfare (i.e., sweating the details of the user experience and handling the daily chaos & creativity of bad actors).

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster. I'll be stepping back from leading product for 𝕏 and will continue on as an advisor. Serving the X community has been the privilege of a lifetime. X is, and will remain, the most important communication technology in history. But running this app is a 24/7 job and it's now time for me to take a breather. The app is seeing unprecedented growth in new users & engagement. We continue to break records every month. We've climbed 70 spots in the App Store since this time last year. And in the last 400 days, we rebuilt almost every aspect of X: the Timeline, the Android app, onboarding, notifications, chat and more. We also launched nearly 30 new products while protecting the integrity of the town square: becoming the first app to show Country-of-Origin on profiles and mounting defenses against AI bots. There's certainly much more work to be done, but our foundation is stronger than ever. None of this would have been possible without the incredible team here. The next leaders will take X to even greater heights with @benjitaylor on design, @singhai on core product engineering and @dinkin_flickaa on mobile engineering -- among many other great people. Thank you to Elon and the X team for welcoming me into the company. See you on the Timeline.

There are a few spammers on X that have been pivoting their strategy for the last 6 months. One of the them (“This guy is a great trader ⬇️”) has pivoted a total of 40 times after each method has been blocked. Some of the techniques are so creative and fast that it feels like they’re sitting right next to us. At this point, we might as well hire them because they are just as familiar with the X codebase as us.

We found 42,000 accounts automating replies using chatbots and have removed them from the platform. X's core value is providing an authentic pulse on humanity -- and using AI to programmatically engage with users without a human in the loop runs counter to our mission.

Today we're announcing the completion of one of the largest engineering projects in the company's history: We rebuilt the X Android app from scratch It's faster, smoother and more reliable. But most of all: it will enable us to build new features at lightning speed.

If you want to keep track of the latest AI model releases, pin the AI custom timeline. It’s personalized for you, ranked and labeled by Grok. The best way to monitor the situation as it’s happening.

Some updates on the creator rev share program: 1. Soliciting engagements (“I’ll follow everyone who replies”) 3 or more times will results in removal from the program and your account will be forwarded to the policy team for suspension. Grok now catches all of these. Nearly 4000 accounts were removed from the program today. 2. Our new model now detects duplicated content at 3x the rate of the previous model. Adding watermarks, intros and other edits will send monetized impressions to the original uploader. This also includes copying viral text posts (most common one: “Twitter is like the smoking section of the internet”). We detected 1.5 million posts that were stolen this cycle. Repeated or intentional circumvention will lead to removal from the program. With these changes, over $1 million will be given back to original content creators.

@vibhu There are a few user groups that misused Following as a way to promote their accounts (See: Crypto) with no intent to actually engage with or read the account’s content. Their Timelines are now destroyed beyond all recognition.