X has begun cracking down on large accounts that profit from plagiarized tweets, and here are some egregious examples that the official site has mentioned.



Nikita Bier, head of product at X (formerly Twitter), has announced that the company will be limiting revenue sharing for large accounts that repost content from smaller accounts with fewer followers. This means that the majority of the impressions gained by reposters will be allocated to the original poster.




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According to Mr. Bia, numerous large accounts are programmatically re-uploading content from smaller accounts and exploiting the revenue-sharing program to make money. As a countermeasure, X has reportedly started identifying the original posts and allocating the majority of impressions to the original posters.

One of the accounts that Mr. Bia directly mentioned is Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) . Mr. Bia said, 'Please do not re-upload the video. Please use the quote or video sharing function. Your earnings were cut by 90% in the last cycle, and there is no room for further cuts.'




Mario Nawfal countered that 'according to team members, the video was obtained from Telegram and they didn't know the original source,' but he has been criticized for contradictions, given that the posting time suggests Telegram was also reposted from the original poster on X, and that in his initial post, Mario Nawfal did not mention Telegram at all and wrote 'Source: ABC News.'

In addition, Mario Nawfal stated that 'revenue should always prioritize the original creator, not those who repost,' and that 'I usually use the video sharing feature, but it doesn't work for longer texts.' However, evidence has been presented that Mario Nawfal does not use the video sharing feature even for short texts. The issue of 'the video sharing feature not working for longer texts' is apparently a bug, and Mr. Bia has promised to fix it.

Another account mentioned by Bia is Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) . Bia stated, 'You reposted 2,759 videos from ViralRush (@ViralRushX) and circumvented attribution by removing the watermarks. You can't be any more brazen. This is your last day in the Creator Program.'




However, it seems that ViralRush isn't even the 'true original uploader' of the video that Mr. Bia mentioned. ViralRush simply added his own watermark to the YouTube video and uploaded it, doing the same thing as Massimo. Yet, simply because it had a watermark, ViralRush is being treated as the original uploader, and Massimo's revenue is being taken away.

Massimo sarcastically commented, 'Mr. Bia praises you just for putting a fake watermark on your video. Then he suspends the monetization of anyone who finds the same video somewhere and shares it without the fake watermark. That's the new rule.'




Regarding this situation, one user pointed out that 'accounts that repost videos from other platforms and add their own watermarks should be subject to monetization suspension or account termination, and ideally, all accounts should be required to clearly indicate the source of their content.'

Regarding the practice of reposting videos from other platforms to X, Mr. Bia believes that 'bringing the best videos on the internet to X is fine, because one of X's core values is cultural commentary.' However, he does not condone large accounts hijacking the impressions of other posts.

The Figen (@TheFigen_) , who was named for reposting other people's content, shared the opinion that 'My posts are viewed millions of times, and X makes money by placing ads on my page, but they don't pay me a single penny. This is like making a fool of me.'




Arguments defending large accounts included: 'Many people value curation (selection and filtering of information) more than original creation, and large accounts attract followers based on their history of what information they have shared and how they have shared it. That is the secret to long-term success, and it is a mistake to focus on a single piece of content.'

Some of the general opinions on X include: 'There are problems such as a lack of video editing tools, the fact that extremely long 'articles' are not displayed on the main timeline, and the inability for creators to predict their earnings because they don't know how much revenue each piece of content generated. The problem with X right now is that it's trying to do too many things at once and can't focus on the content it's originally good at, namely short, sharp reviews. In the end, nothing is done well, and because the system changes almost every week, it's very unstable and unpredictable, and it's not a good foundation for creators.'




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