The designation for the Twitter social networking site in this encyclopedia after being renamed "X" in July 2023.
Since Twitter was launched in 2006, many related terms were created and cited millions of times in conversation, articles, blogs, books and TV. Time will tell how long it takes before, or even if, all the Twitter terms are changed or forgotten (see
Twitterese). There are three tiers of paid subscribers under the X Premium banner, as follows:
Basic
Provides posts up to 25,000 characters, which everyone can read even if not an X Premium subscriber. Basic includes text formatting, bookmarking folders, custom app icons, higher reply ranking and more.
X Premium
Premium adds a blue checkmark and limits ads, and it enables users to share ad revenue in replies of posted content. X Premium also provides ID verification and greater reply prioritization along with media management via Media Studio.
X Premium+
The top tier eliminates ads and provides greatest reply priortizaion. It enables article creation and access to the Grok AI. See
Grok and
X.com.