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Long-form writers on X no longer have to sit in the web composer to publish an Article. According to X's API changelog, the company added new endpoints on October 3, 2026, for drafting and publishing Articles through the X API — a quiet change that opens the platform's richest writing format to outside tools, publishing platforms, and automation for the first time.

Getting paid on X works differently now. The platform retired its Creator Revenue Sharing programme on September 7, 2026, and began rolling out its replacement, Original Content Rewards, from September 8. Existing members could apply for the new programme through Creator Studio, and the change redraws both who can earn and what kind of posts actually generate a payout.

Video quietly became one of the main events on X. The timeline is full of clips, creators post interviews and podcasts natively, and long-form uploads now sit alongside quick hits. What you can post, though, depends heavily on whether you pay for X Premium. Here is how video on X works today.

Everyone has done it: liked a post just to find it again later, then cringed, because a like is a public endorsement. Bookmarks are the better tool for the job. Saving a post to your bookmarks files it away in a private collection that only you can see — no announcement, no notification, no trace on your profile.

X wants creators to treat posting as a business, and it runs two main programs to pay them: revenue sharing and Subscriptions. They work very differently, and most creators who earn on the platform use one or both. Here is how each stands today.

Paying for X is no longer a single decision. The service still offers three Premium tiers — Basic, Premium and Premium+ — and each one unlocks a different layer of the platform. Here is what each level actually includes, based on X's own subscription documentation.

If you pay for more than one of Elon Musk's products, your billing page just got simpler. On October 12, the company announced The X Subscription, a single plan that brings together the Grok AI assistant, the Grok Bot agent tools, the Cursor coding platform and X Premium under one monthly bill.