X, the corporate previously referred to as Twitter, has gotten rid of free entry to its productivity-minded TweetDeck platform. Now renamed to XPro, the platform is simply out there as a perk within the X Premium subscription service.
A assist account for the corporate referred to as X posted on July 3 that the change was coming and that in 30 days, customers have to be Verified — aka, should pay $8 a month on desktop or $11 on Android or iOS for X Premium — to entry “a brand new, improved model” of what’s now referred to as XPro.
Several of XPro’s listed features have already existed in TweetDeck, whereas new perks embody superior search, persevering with to watch a submit’s video whereas scrolling by way of XPro and selecting whether or not to view high posts or newest posts in columns.
The X Support submit famous that Teams performance could be unavailable and “restored within the coming weeks,” nevertheless it’s unclear if that has occurred. X did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
This is the most recent in a sequence of modifications to Twitter, now X, after Elon Musk acquired it in October 2022. Under his management, the corporate launched a brand new subscription program and verification system earlier than eliminating Twitter branding and, most lately, altering X’s app icon to look soiled and smudged for some purpose.
The firm previously referred to as Twitter paid $40 million in 2011 to purchase TweetDeck, then a third-party desktop consumer standard with energy customers of the social media platform. But it could not have been all Musk’s thought to limit TweetDeck to solely paid customers — a month earlier than Musk made his preliminary bid for the social media platform, a March 2022 code leak advised Twitter was wanting into including TweetDeck to its Twitter Blue subscription perks.
For now, visiting TweetDeck’s outdated URL (tweetdeck.twitter.com) redirects customers to X’s homepage with a popup prompting them to subscribe to X Premium. Visiting Xpro.com leads to a totally totally different firm.