Platform Updates

For years, people who wanted to read public posts on X without signing in had a quiet workaround. Nitter, an open-source project, fetched public posts and presented them in a clean, lightweight view, stripping out ads, tracking cookies and heavy scripts. Services such as XCancel were built on top of it, and many readers treated those pages as their front door to the platform.

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.

Letting an AI agent spend your money is a very different kind of trust from asking it a question, and that difference was on full display on X on Thursday, October 15.

X has removed more than 13,000 accounts that it says were part of three suspected foreign influence operations aimed at political debate in the United States, announcing the sweep on Wednesday evening ahead of the midterm elections on November 3.

According to the platform, the networks used inauthentic accounts to post and amplify political content aimed at candidates and public figures across the political spectrum. X said it found the accounts through proactive sweeps and investigations under its rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behaviour.

Football fans who follow games on X now have official numbers behind the conversation. Genius Sports announced on October 15 that it has partnered with X to connect NFL Gametime on X with the NFL's official data, giving fans real-time scores, statistics and insights as games unfold during the 2026 season.

Voice is becoming one of the fastest-moving parts of the X ecosystem, and this week it took another step forward. On October 14, 2026, xAI announced Grok Voice 3.0, a real-time speech-to-speech model built for voice agents, and made it available through its Voice Agent API.

For years, a dollar sign in front of a ticker symbol was simply a shortcut. Tap a Cashtag on X and a reader could follow the conversation around a stock, an exchange-traded fund or a cryptocurrency. A recent update turns that shortcut into a starting point for action, at least for users in the United States.

X has a new pitch for businesses that have never advertised on the platform: bring a website address, and let the AI handle the setup. X Lift, unveiled at Advertising Week New York on October 6, 2026, is an AI-powered tool in X Ads Manager that turns a business URL into a set of ad options in a few clicks, then builds much of the campaign around them.

Britain's media regulator Ofcom said on Wednesday, October 14, that its investigation into X will now focus on how effectively the platform handles illegal hate and terrorism-related content, after X strengthened other protections for users in the United Kingdom earlier this year.

Baseball fans on X are getting a dedicated home for the postseason. On October 7, at Advertising Week New York, X announced that its Gametime sports hub is expanding beyond football, with Major League Baseball as its second league partnership.

Gametime was first announced in August as an NFL-focused hub, bringing live scores, play-by-play updates and game feeds together in a single place instead of leaving fans to piece a game together from scattered posts. The MLB version, arriving this month, applies the same idea to the baseball postseason.