Elon Musk launches his YouTube analog
Next week, Elon Musk’s company X (formerly Twitter) will launch a video hosting app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs. It will encourage social media users to watch long videos.
This was reported by Fortune, citing a source in the company responsible for the development of social networks. They noted that Musk wants to encourage users to watch long videos on the big screen. In this way, it intends to compete with YouTube.
According to him, the new app looks “identical” to the YouTube TV app, and according to Fortune, the services Musk is looking to compete with in the near future with new products include the Twitch online streaming platform and the encrypted messenger Signal. services, the report says.
Recently, a number of innovations have appeared on social network X. In particular, the developers decided to remove the ability to block users. It is not yet known when this will happen.
At the same time, X will allow users to hide their “likes” hide their “likes,” but this feature is only available to paid users. In the future, it will also be possible to display the number of likes and the number of reposts may no longer be displayed.
As a reminder, social network X (formerly Twitter) may stop displaying the number of likes and reposts on the service’s main feed, Elon Musk said.
