
X, the artist formerly known as Twitter, has reached out to PlayStation to improve its integration of the social network – following its removal earlier in the week. Outspoken owner Elon Musk had previously said he’d personally look into the matter, and now a developer account has confirmed it’s “reached out” to Sony to explore “new integrations” with the PS5 and PS4, including “livestreaming”.
While nothing has been officially confirmed at this stage, a spokesperson for the company encouraged fans to “stay tuned”. Obviously, the social network finds itself in a sticky spot following months of turbulence including the aforementioned name change, so it won’t want huge organisations like PlayStation ignoring its platform entirely. The outreach makes sense in this context, then.
Do you think there’s hope for a better version of X on Sony’s consoles, or is this all posturing from a company that finds itself increasingly under pressure? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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I have never used X on Playstation, so don't care much what happens. Don't we have better streaming services anyway? Looking at you Twitch. It just seems redundant to me. On a more personal level, I sincerely hope X crashes and burns for obvious reasons.
Sony should make Musk pay for the X integration. 10M$ per month)
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"It seems whatever issue Sony has with X..."
"To clarify, this is a legacy integration."
So to be clear, whatever it is it's not Elon's fault.
I'm interested to see how this turns out. Honestly it seems like X could use PS more than the other way around right now. Negotiations should be interested, although we'll never hear about it after this.
It's not Twitter anymore. Update your files
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"We've reached out" translates to "Sony won't return our calls"
@nomither6 Yeah, I just avoid the platform entirely. Just like I choose not to go for regular strolls in the sewer. If people want to wade through other people’s excrement, more power to them. 😜
@DonaldMcRonald @Th3solution Agreed...
I'm sure support was dropped as a direct result of Musk driving Twitter into the ground and then asking for $42K+ a month.
We're good love.... thanks
@Shepherd_Tallon it's not that the past did is elon fault, it's that now, less and less people and businesses care about Twitter and a lot of that is Elon fault. I have to be logged in to see replies? Me personally, that's dumb.
@Cycologist you only read the title?
I don't see it happening. Threads though, yeah.
Twitter is a toxic cesspool so no thanks!
Yea, I’m sure it’ll work out because Elon has never, ever over-promised and under-delivered.
"X, the artist formerly known as Twitter" LOL I'm still laughing
Whether it happens or not I think Sony needs it to promote their 5 upcoming GaaS games and the 5 after that. What’s the point of the controller having a Share button if you can’t? That’s TV button on the Wii U level of incompetence.
@DaniPooo everyone else seems aware of the change
@Cycologist If Musk can deadname his daughter, then we can deadname his social network.
@Cycologist Eh? Still didn't read the article huh?
It mentions X formally know as Twitter...
It's called X now though why put it in the headline of the article as twitter? I know it says x formerly known whatever but shouldn't the headline have the actual name of the platform? Such weird energy on this site when it comes to this subject
Why can't they just let it go? Twitter or "X" is becoming irrelevant now and is clearly only meant for certain people. I won't say anymore because I'm sure everybody here knows what I'm talking about. I care about playing games on PlayStation and nothing else.
@TheCollector316 The people that use Twitter and those who formally owned it drove it into the ground hence why it has the reputation it has on par with reddit as the joke of the internet that only losers use
Kind of late to talk about doing new things with someone when they’ve already dumped you and kicked you out of the house. But it’s the wisdom wizard at twitter so fully expected
I hate the name X. Change it back to twitter. I don't use much of other social media. I use tiktok the most, but that's mainly for watching or posting videos. Twitter was good for posting just texts, as other socials don't let you do that. If there is another social media app that is like twitter, I'd consider using that. I don't like X and I don't like elon musk. So yeah, I wanna move to a new one.
I actually enjoy using X and the algorithm works way better than Facebook and Instagram, so to see recommended Playstation content and possible streams of games I've never played would be cool.
I don’t think Twitter is a stable business partner to warrant integrations. If I were Sony I would focus on integrations with larger, more relevant, more stable social networks and sharing platforms.
The less X the better. Elon is a toxic individual, and is happily encouraging hatred, abuse, racism, sexism, misinformation etc… on his platform
@Cycologist I like Twatter like the first reply said. Seems like a fitting name.
I didn't use the integration much, but it was handy for sharing the occasional screenshot or video clip if something funny or unexpected happened in a game. I did have it set up to post platinum trophies as well.
I'll miss the convenience as using the app is more clunky. I hope they come to some agreement to keep it, but I won't lose any sleep if they don't.
As for X/Twitter itself, I still use it, but less than I did... mostly because they blocked 3rd- party apps on mobiles and started charging for TweetDeck on desktop. I don't like the official app or website because of the way they keep messing with your feed and showing you what the algorithm thinks you'd like to see.
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