X, the corporate previously often called Twitter, has gotten rid of free entry to its productivity-minded TweetDeck platform. Now renamed to XPro, the platform is barely out there as a perk within the X Premium subscription service.
A help account for the corporate often called 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 known as XPro.
A number of of XPro’s listed options have already existed in TweetDeck, whereas new perks embody superior search, persevering with to observe 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 Help submit famous that Groups performance could be unavailable and “restored within the coming weeks,” but it surely’s unclear if that has occurred. X did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
That is the newest in a sequence of adjustments to Twitter, now X, after Elon Musk acquired it in October 2022. Underneath his management, the corporate launched a brand new subscription program and verification system earlier than eliminating Twitter branding and, most not too long ago, altering X’s app icon to look soiled and smudged for some motive.
The corporate previously often called Twitter paid $40 million in 2011 to accumulate TweetDeck, then a third-party desktop shopper common with energy customers of the social media platform. However it might not have been all Musk’s concept 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For now, visiting TweetDeck’s outdated URL (tweetdeck.twitter.com) redirects customers to X’s homepage with a popup prompting them to subscribe to X Premium.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 results in a very totally different firm.