Elon Musk Says X, Previously Twitter, Reaches ‘New Excessive’ With Over 540 Million Month-to-month Customers

Elon Musk stated on Friday that month-to-month customers of social media platform X, previously often known as Twitter, reached a “new excessive” and shared a graph that confirmed the most recent depend as over 540 million.

Musk’s submit on X in regards to the consumer figures comes as the corporate goes by means of organisational adjustments and appears to spice up promoting income which has dropped within the latest month.

Additionally it is the most recent in a sequence of feedback from X’s executives claiming robust traction in utilization, after Meta Platforms launched a direct competing platform referred to as Threads on July 5.

Twitter had 229 million month-to-month energetic customers in Could 2022, in line with an announcement made earlier than Musk’s buy of the agency in October. Musk posted in November that X had 259.4 million each day energetic customers.

Since taking up, Musk has swiftly moved by means of a lot of product and organizational adjustments. The corporate rolled out the verified blue tick as a paid service and has began sharing a reduce of the advert gross sales with choose content material creators on the platform.

In Could, Musk named former NBCUniversal promoting chief Linda Yaccarino as CEO of X, signalling that advert gross sales have been a precedence even because the platform labored to extend the subscription income.

Musk stated earlier this month that X’s money move was destructive due to a virtually 50 p.c drop in promoting income and a heavy debt load, with out providing particulars.

In the meantime, Musk’s determination to rebrand Twitter as X might be difficult legally: corporations together with Meta and Microsoft have already got mental property rights to the identical letter.

X is so extensively used and cited in logos that it’s a candidate for authorized challenges – and the corporate previously often known as Twitter might face its personal points defending its X model sooner or later.

“There is a one hundred pc probability that Twitter goes to get sued over this by someone,” stated trademark lawyer Josh Gerben, who stated he counted almost 900 energetic U.S. trademark registrations that already cowl the letter X in a variety of industries.

Homeowners of logos – which defend issues like model names, logos and slogans that determine sources of products – can declare infringement if different branding would trigger shopper confusion. Treatments vary from financial damages to blocking use.

Microsoft since 2003 has owned an X trademark associated to communications about its Xbox video-game system. Meta Platforms – whose Threads platform is a brand new Twitter rival – owns a federal trademark registered in 2019 masking a blue-and-white letter “X” for fields together with software program and social media.

Meta and Microsoft probably wouldn’t sue except they really feel threatened that Twitter’s X encroaches on model fairness they constructed within the letter, Gerben stated.

The three corporations didn’t reply to requests for remark.

© Thomson Reuters 2023

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