New Delhi: Elon Musk on Friday claimed that his social media platform X is the number one news app on Apple’s AppStore in India.
“X is now #1 for news in India!” wrote Musk on X, reposting a DogeDesigner (an account related to Musk) post.
X is followed by the American social media platform Reddit and Dainik Bhaskar.
However, the platform doesn’t appear on the Google Play Store’s top charts list for news and magazines. This discrepancy could be due to differences in the algorithms used by Apple’s AppStore and Google Play Store, or it could be a result of varying user preferences on the two platforms.
India has the third highest number of X users by country with approximately 25 million plus users.
Lauding the feat, users suggested Musk should also start live-streaming cricket on the platform, which “will make X number 1 in India for everything”.
It “would be awesome to have a better cricket viewing experience on X! This is where all of India comes to talk about the game but there’s not one place which ties all conversations together,” a user posted.
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“+1 IPL could be a great test bed for this. Grok can potentially give constant summary based on all live tweets,” added another user.
Musk bought out the social media platform for a whopping $44 billion in October 2022, following which he rebranded it and actively advocated and promoted it to be an alternative news source and a free speech platform.
Under Musk’s ownership, X has been actively promoted as an alternative to the traditional media.
Musk was also vocal about his support for US Republican candidate Donald Trump, who later won the US elections this year.
Musk’s vision for X is ambitious. He aims to transform it into an “everything app” that offers a wide range of services, from job search to e-commerce, promising a one-stop solution for users.
Meanwhile, Musk, the CEO and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has recently asked people on X to upload their medical data so that his Grok AI chatbot could learn to interpret MRIs and CT scans. This initiative is part of Musk’s broader goal to use AI for medical diagnosis and treatment, but it has raised some privacy concerns among users and experts.
“Try submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis,” Musk wrote on X. “This is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely good. Let us know where Grok gets it right or needs work.”
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