Where do I start… For a big part of my life, I didn’t fit in. At school, I’d argue with teachers because I didn’t like what I was learning. At university, I got bad grades and drank way too much to build a personality. At my short 9–5 job, I kept wondering what I was doing there. I joined Twitter in November 2021. When I discovered the indie hacking community, I felt a sense of belonging for the first time in my life. It’s hard to describe, but I loved the idea of working on your own thing and sharing everything publicly. It felt like freedom. So I started building startups. 1 in 2021. 10 in 2022. It took almost a year to reach 1,000 followers. I never planned to build an audience. I thought that if I kept building things, some people might discover my work. In my wildest dreams, maybe 10,000 followers? So I kept building. 10 more startups in 2023. As I shipped many small bets, some started to take off. They paid my rent. More people followed. Then ShipFast launched in August 2023. It reached $50k/month, and my audience started growing faster. In June 2024, my account passed 100k followers. It felt unreal. A few days ago, I saw my profile picture in the 𝕏 App Store screenshot. Today, my account crossed 300k. Now, some people recognize me in the street. None of this was planned. None of it was expected. I’m beyond grateful. Thank you for being here. You gave meaning to this whole journey. ❤️
Update your 𝕏 app and look at your Following timeline. Posts of people you follow are now ranked by @Grok! You can still access unfiltered chronological if you want.
The most powerful distribution channel in the world is Timeline. And today we're launching a new way to take full advantage of it to monetize your content. Introducing Exclusive Threads Here's an Exclusive Thread on why it's the best way to build a content business on the Internet 👇
Here's my conversation with Rick Beato (@rickbeato), a musician, music educator, producer, songwriter, and host of a YouTube channel that celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again.
X is the best source for financial news -- and hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed based on things people read here. We are building Smart Cashtags that allow you to specify the exact asset (or smart contract) when posting a ticker. From Timeline, users will be able to tap them to see its real-time price along with all mentions of that asset. We're aiming to collect feedback as we iterate toward a public release next month.
Today we're announcing Paid Partnership labels on posts. X's core value is providing on authentic pulse on humanity. While we want to encourage people to build their businesses on X, undisclosed promotions hurt the integrity of the product and lead people to distrust the content they read on X. This new feature will allow you to comply with regulations, but more importantly: it enables you to be transparent with your followers.
Today we are revising our Creator Revenue Sharing policies to maintain authenticity of content on Timeline and prevent manipulation of the program. During times of war, it is critical that people have access to authentic information on the ground. With today’s AI technologies, it is trivial to create content that can mislead people. Starting now, users who post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict—without adding a disclosure that it was made with AI—will be suspended from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days. Subsequent violations will result in a permanent suspension from the program. This will be flagged to us by any post with a Community Note or if the content contains meta data (or other signals) from generative AI tools. We will continue to refine our policies and product to ensure X can be trusted during these critical moments.
People come X to get a pulse on humanity. Because of that, the platform must make every effort to resist anything that misrepresents or adulterates that pulse. There is nothing more unsettling than expecting you’re reading the words of a human -- only to find it was a machine, or an account operating at the direction of an undisclosed commercial or governmental entity. In the AI era, our product, policies, and approach will need to evolve meaningfully. Some things may not work, but we intend to employ every available tool and strategy to secure the global town square.