Nikita Bier, the chief of the X platform (formerly Twitter) product, said on Saturday that the platform was reducing the share of income from the “brush title party” account by clicking on bait and fast news aggregating.
Nikita Bill stated that “the share of income for all polymer accounts has been reduced to 60 per cent in the current cycle” and that they will be reduced by an additional 20 per cent in the next payment cycle. He also states that X would reduce the proceeds to “each post is the result of the use of “suspicious” baits. “It is clear that a 100-stealed transfer and title-party content screen each day would crowd out the living space of the real creator and undermine the growth of the new author”, Nikita Bill said, “X will never limit freedom of expression and the scope of dissemination, but we will not subsidize the manipulation of platform mechanisms or user behaviour”. On this occasion, some news accounts began posting that they had received an X notification that the accounts had been disqualified for profit. Dominick McGee post: “Closed news! I’m the first creator on X to be disqualified for a year. It’s hard to recover, and it’s been cancelled for no reason. How is that possible? I’m one of the most dedicated creators on X.”
Dominick McGee’s X account had 1.6 million fans, and in 2020 he was popular with the announcement of the US presidential conspiracy theory. Although he had been temporarily suspended by X in 2023 and disqualified in 2024, last year he told The New York Times that he earned $55,000 a year from the platform. In response to Nikita Bill’s post, Dominick McGee complained that X seemed to be listening to “the complaints of those who did not create a target at all”. Although he admits that he labels every day as a “headline party” for breaking news, he claims that “I have sent hundreds of posts, which really count as breaking news.” (Some X users seem to disagree, pointing out that he has used 91 “breaks” in the past week.)
Other users claimed to have been involved in the X strike. An account post called PoliMath states: “I understand Nikita’s intentions, but I have just received the lowest payment in a long time, so I’m a little concerned that I’m also in the category of `polymers’.” It is worth mentioning that the former data analyst and commentator, Nate Silver, complained that the flow from X is now deteriorating and that it has become very difficult to channel to other sites.
Bill claims that Silver’s data are inaccurate, while Mask accuses his post of “bullshit”.