PlayStation Ends Its ExTwitter Sharing Integration, Likely Due To API Payment Requirement
from the X-it-stage-right dept
When it comes to the big 3 of the video game industry — Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony — the circle is now complete when it comes to integrations with ExTwitter. Late last year, Nintendo killed off parts of its own integration not just with then-Twitter, but with Facebook as well. But then ExTwitter abruptly announced earlier this year that free access to its API was going to be cut off, replaced instead by a tiered payment scheme depending on what level of integration the user would need. Almost immediately afterwards, Xbox cut off the ability to share content via ExTwitter.
And now Sony has removed the PlayStation’s integration with ExTwitter as well, almost certainly for the same reason. Somewhat interestingly, Sony’s DS4 controller came with a button specifically called the “share” button, which allows you to screencap images or videos to your console to then share on social media. That button seems to have gotten measurably less useful now.
Sony said it is removing support for Elon Musk’s X/Twitter from its PlayStation game consoles, effective next week. The company announced the change in a notice posted Monday on its website.
“As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles,” the message on Sony’s website reads. “This includes the ability to view any content published on X on PS5/PS4, and the ability to post and view content, trophies and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or link an X account to do so).”
As ExTwitter’s valuation sits at somewhere around half of what it was at the time Elon Musk bought the platform, a trendline of the wider world not seeing enough value in the platform to cough up what he’s asking for to use it, well, ain’t great. The entire premise of a social media company is built upon user activity and engagement. Users have begun to leave the platform, including those that may have used it in conjunction with these 3rd party integrations that are likewise going away. Advertisers are going away, in part because of the toxic hellhole that ExTwitter has become, and in part due to the declining user base and engagement of existing users.
Musk can rail against the evil woke mind virus of death and destruction, or whatever strawman farce he wants to cook up to explain why everything he does is the bestest this week, but the platform is in decline in very measurable ways.
Musk closed his $44 billion debt-laden takeover of Twitter in October 2022, after Twitter sued him to complete the deal at the agreed-on terms. The company, since rechristened X Corp., is now worth $19 billion, according to a notice sent last month to employees eligible for stock grants.
Were PlayStation gamers using the ExTwitter integration all that much? Perhaps not. But “some” is a higher value than “absolutely none, because Sony killed it off.” And when you’re bleeding money and usership, well, this is one more data point in a story of how to kill a once-useful and potentially successful platform.
Filed Under: api, playstation, sharing, social sharing
Companies: sony, twitter, x
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Hey buddy, you're right!
This one time. This was a dumb thing that Musk did, Twitter being a default method to share videogame captures only made it more relevant.
Of course the federal government really was engaging in violating the 1A by proxy (FB and YT, too!) and they absolutely were shadow banning and engaging in viewpoint discrimination and general suppression of political dissent, and you continue to lie and gaslight about all that. So you’re like 1/100 on all things Twitter.
Also, your raw hatred of Musk remains transparent.
This is a lie. It was a lie last week when you first brought it up, and it’s a lie now. The value listed for stock options or grants IS NOT a “valuation” as that term is usually used, and in fact as a grantee you would actually like the listed price to be below market value. Something you actually mentioned in your original article, making clear not only is this a lie, but you know it is a lie and are lying with purpose and intent.
That’s legitimately sad, man.
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I could spend time asking why you have this confrontational attitude, but I think I’ll focus on two of your assertions instead
Citation needed for both the claim regarding the federal government and the claim about Geigner gaslighting, otherwise I can dismiss your argument as having been presented without evidence. Of course, if you do give a citation, please give something that hasn’t been debunked elsewhere. It won’t itself guarantee you win the argument, but it’s one of many prerequisites to not being laughed out of the room.
This is from the numbers Musk gave his own employees, and Geigner gives a link in the article to substantiate his claim. Now tell me, how is this a lie? Please explain, and of course give citations as needed.
I know your post is probably bait for reactions, but I’m bored as all heck at the moment.
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“Something something Twitter files, something something Hunter Biden…”
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So, you’re new here.
I like this bit. I have to provide hard evidence, but then you premptively get to say “that’s been debunked”, presumably with no burden to prove that.
So, there’s famously the Twitter files, but also a great deal of court documents, and courts have ruled this occurred. It was of course appealed and now SCOTUS is going to rule on it, too, and I fully expect them to declare it a !a violation.
But the “debunked” bit is funny. Masnick claims to have “debunked” this, but he’s lying, and in fact trying to tell judges how the law works.
All this tells me is that you don’t understand how stock grants work. But ignorance is not an argument.
Now Masnick I’m pretty sure DOES understand how stock grants work, which just means he’s lying. |
But lol, no, that’s not what the value of the company is.
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Because the 5th Circuit contradicted itself and other courts in the process.
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Nope.
Nope again.
Nope for a third time. Too bad this isn’t baseball.
Reporting on reality is not, in fact, evidence of transparent hatred.
Your hatred for TD in general and Masnick in particular is, however, extremely transparent.
Considering how much you suck Musk’s dick, it’s very odd to hear you call him a liar. Because the valuation that was reported last week was only 1 billion lower than what Musk himself said back in March.
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Not only “yes”, but proven so in court. And appealed, and then sustained, and appealed again, and now about to be rules so by SCTOUS.
You can be mad about that, you can pretend like Masnick that you know the law better than judges, but it is nontheless true.
All the following is therefore invalid.
I just hate it when he lies and he lies the most and most often about Musk. Presumably for taking away his Ministry of Truth.
Not, in fact, a valuation. Which is one of the things Masnick just lied about.
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Not, in fact, a valuation. Which is one of the things Masnick just lied about.
Hi. I wrote this article, not Mike. I’d like you to acknowledge that failure to pay attention to detail as a starting point before we get to your other claims, to see if this conversation is even worth having….
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…hallucinated nobody mentally competent, ever.
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The fact that you need to bring this up, completely unrelated to the topic, again and again, shows you are the one with the issue here. It’s really weird to be so deeply committed to this debunked nonsense.
“You criticize Musk so you must hate him!” is an intellectually weak-ass position to take.
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It’s not unrelated at all, actually, in fact it’s central.
It’s more the degree to which he is willing to distort, stretch, and outright lie that proves the point. I don’t rate Masnick as a very measured, logical person, but his bias gets much more extreme about Musk and he often resorts hyperbolic arguments about things that are just unsubstantiated rumor.
The “is now worth $19B” a good case in point, where he is pretending something that is very much NOT a valuation is one, soley because it allows him to trash Musk.
As I said, I actually think he’s right about the API costs and twitter sharing, it was huge mistake by Musk.
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No, it isn’t. As you yourself said, you completely agree with him on the actual topic at hand, and nothing in the article even remotely relates to that other than involving Twitter. That’s it. It doesn’t even really have to do with your claim that Mike hates Musk, since it’s something he’s said about it completely independently from Musk or Twitter, but even if it had any relation to that, it’d still be unrelated to this article.
Such a tricky choice
Sony: ‘Let’s see, we can pay to maintain access to a platform that’s burning to the ground in real time, access that slightly benefits our side of the equation but heavily benefit the other side, or we could cut our losses and have ‘get bent’ as our response to a demand to pay for something that we can do just fine without…’
From now, pressing it will play “I’ve go you babe”, from Sonny and Cher.
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or, Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
Naming Convention
Out of spite, I propose writing the name as “eksTwitter”.
could someone please buy the Twitter trademark from elmo so we can put it back?
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Doubt it, considering the name was toxic even before Elmo came.
Bruh. His creditors think it’s worth even LESS than that. Tim was being generous.
As for the “viewpoint discrimination”….I’m going to tell you that NOBODY takes you seriously when you use that phrase.
Re: 'It's not 'consequences for being racist' it's 'viewpoint discrimination'!'
For any new users and/or visitors who might be fooled by the term’s innocent sounding name and think it means something valid…
‘Viewpoint discrimination’ as it’s used on TD and I assume elsewhere by people like those using it here: A bigot and/or troll’s cowardly way to talk about people being told to act like decent people or get out without having to provide details that would make clear that the consequences being imposed are entirely on the person affected for being and/or acting like a toxic and terrible person that no-one wants to be around.
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“Bigot” is just whatever speech you don’t like.
Don’t want male rapists in women’s prisons (yes that is a real thing that’s happening) “bigot!” See? It’s easy.
There’s no end to this. Want to shame people celebrating 1400 Jews butchered? “Islamaphobic bigot!”
Your entire rant is invalid.
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You have said a lot more than that, and that has never been why we called you a bigot.
I don’t think you were called a bigot for that, at least not here.
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Male rapists in women’s prisons don’t exist, those are transwomen, and transwomen are women as everyone who isn’t a dogshit piece of trash like Matty the Bratty knows.
But transwomen don’t rape, as everyone knows, they are enlightened and progressive individuals who have broken the shackles of societal pressures to embrace the truly fabulous self within. If a transwoman is attributed somehow to “rape”, it is the result of toxic masculine influences. Matthew Bennett knows this, and he’s absolutely fucking terrified of that fact.
There’s still the PlayStation app (PS5) and Sharefactory (PS4). So not a total loss.