"Elon Musk's X has begun rolling out a new feature for user profiles that will display information about the account, including where it's based, how many times the account has changed its username, the account's original join date, and how the user downloaded the X app. The new information is meant to reduce inauthentic engagement on the platform, where bots often pretend to be humans - a problem that could get even harder to police in the age of AI."
"To view your account information on the web or in the X mobile app, you'll click on the "Joined" date on your profile. From here, you're taken to a page that shows the date you joined Twitter/X, where your account is based, how many username changes have been done and when the last one was, and how you're connected to X - like via the U.S. App Store or Google Play, for instance."
"Give me 72 hours."
X is rolling out an "About this Account" profile feature that displays account location, username change count and timing, original join date, and the app source used to connect to X. The feature intends to help users identify potential bots or bad actors by exposing provenance details that may contradict profile claims. Initial experiments appeared on company employee profiles after plans surfaced in October. Users can access the information by clicking the "Joined" date on a profile, which opens a page summarizing join date, account base, username-change history, and app connection. Availability appears uneven across accounts.
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