This is how badly X wants you to pay to promote your posts

After Elon Musk warned that "advertisers who station ads that are ugly, shrill, strident oregon overstate claims astir their merchandise volition beryllium barred from advertising" connected X earlier this month, the level present appears to beryllium utilizing a jarring animated limb that reaches crossed the surface to gully attraction to the "promote" fastener portion users are composing a post.

Many X users person seen and shared images of the unsettling promotional tool, including The Verge's Tom Warren, but it doesn't look for everyone connected the platform. The limb seems constricted to verified users, oregon those with a paid subscription to X Premium. Reactions, unsurprisingly, person been little tha …

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