X is evolving, and so are we
A quick post to address some of the concerns raised about me, and more importantly, to lay out how we’re adapting to where the platform is heading.
Here’s what we started doing this week:
- We’re hiring on the ground journalists (again) for more original content in the form of investigative journalism. We did this before, but it became too costly. We’re restarting the initiative.
- More live interviews: I’m personally hosting 9-10 interviews DAILY, 7 days a week
- My content team and I will do reaction videos to tweets (using X’s new feature)
- We will continue trying our best to source/embed the RIGHT source, and correct whenever we get the source wrong
- For transparency and accountability, the name of our writers will be added at the bottom of each post (not the full name for opsec)
- Along with news coverage, we’ll also be incorporating more opinion and analysis, making sure it aligns with my own and my team’s shared perspective and voice.
And now, to address some concerns:
- No, I don’t write all my tweets. We’ve been doubling down on producing original content, so I’m in interviews for almost every waking minute. We have a team of incredible writers working 24/7, with 3 to 4 online at any given time, plus 1 to 2 news and fact checkers.
- We have a policy to ALWAYS source every single post. But since we get news/content from multiple sources (Telegram, X, Instagram, mainstream media), it’s almost impossible to always get the right ‘original’ source. Whenever we make an error, we either edit the post, or if it’s past the window to edit, we delete and repost, or source in the comment, and sometimes also repost the original source as a goodwill gesture
- We don’t use AI to write posts, though we do manually use it to fact-check them. Our writers personally craft each and every post. We experimented with LLMs in the past to improve efficiency, but ultimately moved away from that approach
- My team knows my opinions and stances, so every tweet is written in my voice. But I also give them the freedom to express their own perspectives. I believe this lets us speak to a wider swath of the audience, rather than just creating an echo chamber of the same ideas and beliefs.
My goal has always been, and continues to be, to build the world’s largest news platform on X.
Hope this clears the air and gives other creators some insight into our strategy moving forward ❤️
Big thanks to
@nikitabier @_trevorholliday @alexabraham @nicoduc @alxkikalia @i_aliullov @allegrajacchia @z49547 @striedinger @geruk @k3shen @ZichengZhou10 @saurabhverma @LingyunGao4 @ZachWarunek for the non-stop innovation and experimentation. Exciting times!