X如今正式成为限制级平台。
上周末,X(前身为推特)修改了服务条款,正式允许用户发布成人内容。在规则变更之前,该平台有一项允许用户上传此类内容的非官方政策,但这一行为既不允许也不禁止,处于灰色地带。如今,X用户将能够自由发布(分享的网络材料因含有某些内容如裸体图片)不宜在工作场所观看的内容,只要这些内容是在双方同意的情况下发布的。
“我们相信成年人有参与和创作反映自己信仰、欲望和经历的内容的自主权,包括与性有关的内容。”X的最新指南写道。
任何发布成人内容的人都必须在自己的账户上贴上成人内容标签,以确保X的过滤程序在该内容上加上警告。X的新指南也适用于人工智能生成的裸体内容。
虽然X从未明确允许成人内容,但在推出“推特蓝”(Twitter Blue)订阅计划后,此类内容有所增加。X的新付费层级允许性工作者和色情演员为付费墙后的内容向订阅者收取费用,这与演员在社交平台OnlyFans上的内容盈利方式类似。现在,随着官方规则的改变,X似乎正在效仿OnlyFans的做法,在创作者和订阅其账户的用户之间建立更牢固的商业关系。尽管OnlyFans网站是公认的色情作品天堂(在该网站上,色情内容泛滥),但它一直努力将自己定位为一个平台,在这个平台上,任何类型的内容创作者都可以与付费用户建立更紧密的联系。
自2022年10月埃隆·马斯克收购X公司以来,他就一直强调该公司需要增加订阅收入,以实现收入来源的多元化。这一信念是“推特蓝”服务推出的动力,现在被称为X Premium,是支持色情内容的X的早期版本。然而,根据The Verge的报道,当X的内容审核团队意识到他们没有能力充分筛查儿童性侵材料和其他形式的非法色情内容时,这些早期计划在2022年春天分崩离析。因此,该计划被搁置。
马斯克对X的订阅业务有着很大的野心。在向投资者展示的推销演示文稿中,马斯克提议到2028年将推特(当时的名称)的广告业务从占其收入的90%减少到45%。这意味着到那时,订阅收入将增至每年100亿美元。这一数字将使推特(在马斯克将其私有化前)作为上市公司的最后一个完整年度的50亿美元营收翻一番。
从那时起,就很难按照马斯克设定的基准来衡量X的进展。不过,从马斯克担任X公司新老板初期的一些报告来看,该公司在留住用户和广告客户方面遇到了困难。2023年10月,即马斯克入主这家社交媒体网站一年后,X的月度用户数量下降了15%,广告收入减少了54%。最近的一项分析发现,在新的一年里,用户仍在纷纷逃离该平台。2月份的月度用户同比下降了24%。
这些下降的部分原因可以归结为马斯克自己的行为,用户和广告商都认为这种行为令人反感。与此同时,由于许多推广色情内容的机器人在该网站上更为普遍,X一直受到用户体验不断恶化的困扰。这些自动账户经常在X上的所有帖子中留下相同的性暗示回复。机器人在该网站上已变得如此普遍,已成为该平台的显著特征。如今,这些机器人可能会被真实的人类账号所淹没,而这些真实的人类账户所推广的正是那些通常被归入互联网低俗角落的色情内容。(财富中文网)
译者:中慧言-王芳
X如今正式成为限制级平台。
上周末,X(前身为推特)修改了服务条款,正式允许用户发布成人内容。在规则变更之前,该平台有一项允许用户上传此类内容的非官方政策,但这一行为既不允许也不禁止,处于灰色地带。如今,X用户将能够自由发布(分享的网络材料因含有某些内容如裸体图片)不宜在工作场所观看的内容,只要这些内容是在双方同意的情况下发布的。
“我们相信成年人有参与和创作反映自己信仰、欲望和经历的内容的自主权,包括与性有关的内容。”X的最新指南写道。
任何发布成人内容的人都必须在自己的账户上贴上成人内容标签,以确保X的过滤程序在该内容上加上警告。X的新指南也适用于人工智能生成的裸体内容。
虽然X从未明确允许成人内容,但在推出“推特蓝”(Twitter Blue)订阅计划后,此类内容有所增加。X的新付费层级允许性工作者和色情演员为付费墙后的内容向订阅者收取费用,这与演员在社交平台OnlyFans上的内容盈利方式类似。现在,随着官方规则的改变,X似乎正在效仿OnlyFans的做法,在创作者和订阅其账户的用户之间建立更牢固的商业关系。尽管OnlyFans网站是公认的色情作品天堂(在该网站上,色情内容泛滥),但它一直努力将自己定位为一个平台,在这个平台上,任何类型的内容创作者都可以与付费用户建立更紧密的联系。
自2022年10月埃隆·马斯克收购X公司以来,他就一直强调该公司需要增加订阅收入,以实现收入来源的多元化。这一信念是“推特蓝”服务推出的动力,现在被称为X Premium,是支持色情内容的X的早期版本。然而,根据The Verge的报道,当X的内容审核团队意识到他们没有能力充分筛查儿童性侵材料和其他形式的非法色情内容时,这些早期计划在2022年春天分崩离析。因此,该计划被搁置。
马斯克对X的订阅业务有着很大的野心。在向投资者展示的推销演示文稿中,马斯克提议到2028年将推特(当时的名称)的广告业务从占其收入的90%减少到45%。这意味着到那时,订阅收入将增至每年100亿美元。这一数字将使推特(在马斯克将其私有化前)作为上市公司的最后一个完整年度的50亿美元营收翻一番。
从那时起,就很难按照马斯克设定的基准来衡量X的进展。不过,从马斯克担任X公司新老板初期的一些报告来看,该公司在留住用户和广告客户方面遇到了困难。2023年10月,即马斯克入主这家社交媒体网站一年后,X的月度用户数量下降了15%,广告收入减少了54%。最近的一项分析发现,在新的一年里,用户仍在纷纷逃离该平台。2月份的月度用户同比下降了24%。
这些下降的部分原因可以归结为马斯克自己的行为,用户和广告商都认为这种行为令人反感。与此同时,由于许多推广色情内容的机器人在该网站上更为普遍,X一直受到用户体验不断恶化的困扰。这些自动账户经常在X上的所有帖子中留下相同的性暗示回复。机器人在该网站上已变得如此普遍,已成为该平台的显著特征。如今,这些机器人可能会被真实的人类账号所淹没,而这些真实的人类账户所推广的正是那些通常被归入互联网低俗角落的色情内容。(财富中文网)
译者:中慧言-王芳
X is now officially X-rated.
Over the weekend X (formerly Twitter) changed its terms of service to formally allow users to post adult content. Prior to the rule change, the platform had an unofficial policy that allowed users to upload such content, but it was neither allowed nor banned, operating in a gray area. Now, X users will be able to freely post NSFW content, so long as it was made consensually.
“We believe in the autonomy of adults to engage with and create content that reflects their own beliefs, desires, and experiences, including those related to sexuality,” X’s updated guidelines state.
Anyone who posts adult content will have to label it as such on their account to ensure X’s filters place a warning in front of it. X’s new guidelines extend to AI-generated nude content.
While X never explicitly allowed adult content, there was an increase in such content after the launch of the Twitter Blue subscription program. The new paid tier of X allowed sex workers and porn actors to charge subscribers a fee for content that was behind a paywall, similar to how performers monetize content on social platform OnlyFans. Now, with the official rule change it appears X is emulating OnlyFans’ effort to build stronger commercial relationships between creators and users who subscribe to their accounts. Despite a reputation as a haven for pornography—which is certainly prevalent on the site—OnlyFans has been trying to position itself as a platform where content creators of any kind can build closer ties to paying customers.
Since Elon Musk bought X in October 2022, he has been vocal that the company needs to chase subscription revenue in order to diversify its income streams. That belief was the impetus for the Twitter Blue launch, now known as X Premium, an early version of a porn-friendly X. However, those earlier plans fell apart in the spring of 2022 when X’s content moderation teams realized they didn’t have the capabilities to adequately screen for child sexual assault material and other forms of illegal sexually explicit content, according to reporting from The Verge. As a result, the plans were put on hold.
Musk has major ambitions for X’s subscription business. In a pitch deck presented to investors, Musk proposed reducing Twitter’s (as it was known then) advertising business from 90% of its revenue to just 45% by 2028. That would mean subscription revenue would rise to $10 billion a year by that date. That number would double Twitter’s $5 billion in revenue in its last full year as a public company before Musk took it private.
Since then, it’s been difficult to gauge X’s progress along the benchmarks Musk set. However, some initial reports from the early days of his tenure as X’s new owner show that the company has struggled to retain both users and advertisers. In October 2023, a year into Musk’s ownership of the social media website, X’s monthly users were down 15% and advertising revenue was 54% lower. A more recent analysis found users were still fleeing the platform in droves into the new year. In February monthly users were down 24% year over year.
Some of those declines can be attributed to Musk’s own behavior, which both users and advertisers have found off-putting. At the same time, X has been plagued by a worsening user experience as bots, many of which promote sexual content, are more prevalent on the site. These automated accounts often leave the same sexually suggestive replies on posts all across X. The bots have become so common on the site they’ve become a defining feature of the platform. Now those bots may wind up being drowned out by authentic human accounts promoting the same sort of racy content that is usually relegated to seedier corners of the internet.