{"id":22679,"date":"2026-04-13T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/elon-musks-x-cuts-payments-to-users-who-post-clickbait\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:37:37","slug":"elon-musks-x-cuts-payments-to-users-who-post-clickbait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/elon-musks-x-cuts-payments-to-users-who-post-clickbait\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s X cuts payments to users who post clickbait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platform says it will reward original creators as it penalises \u2018aggregators\u2019 for flooding timelines with \u2018stolen posts\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/apr\/13\/oil-price-barrel-trump-naval-blockade-strait-of-hormuz-stock-markets-ftse-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X has reduced payments to users who post clickbait and recycle news stories as it warned account holders against \u201cflooding the timeline\u201d with low-quality content.<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Bier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/04\/x-ban-users-earning-revenue-post-unlabelled-ai-generated-war-videos\">X\u2019s head of product<\/a>, wrote on the social media platform that all \u201caggregators\u201d \u2013 users who quickly repackage and repost news from other accounts \u2013 had received less money from the creator revenue sharing programme.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/13\/x-cuts-payments-users-post-clickbait-recycle-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a13537efdbb4b6d5d2ce3a9978c3ddaa4cb00ac3\/394_0_3137_2510\/master\/3137.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d739391917e68ed7c1e69702bcbebc20\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s X cuts payments to users who post clickbait\" \/>Platform says it will reward original creators as it penalises \u2018aggregators\u2019 for flooding timelines with \u2018stolen posts\u2019<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s X has reduced payments to users who post clickbait and recycle news stories as it warned account holders against \u201cflooding the timeline\u201d with low-quality content.<br \/>\nNikita Bier, X\u2019s head of product, wrote on the social media platform that all \u201caggregators\u201d \u2013 users who quickly repackage and repost news from other accounts \u2013 had received less money from the creator revenue sharing programme. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform says it will reward original creators as it penalises \u2018aggregators\u2019 for flooding timelines with \u2018stolen posts\u2019 Business live \u2013 latest updates Elon Musk\u2019s X has reduced payments to users who post clickbait and recycle news stories as it warned account holders against \u201cflooding the timeline\u201d with low-quality content. Nikita Bier, X\u2019s head of product, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/elon-musks-x-cuts-payments-to-users-who-post-clickbait\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk\u2019s X cuts payments to users who post clickbait<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}