The social networking site Twitter, which was just rebranded as “X” after Elon Musk purchased it for $US44 billion and quickly smashed it into a brick wall like a father returning from a midlife crisis binge in his brand-new Ferrari, is getting rid of its interface with the PlayStation 5. The Nintendo Switch is the only game console that will support tweeting in the near future.
Users of the PS5 received a new notification from Sony today announcing the change. “The PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 systems will no longer be able to interact with X (formerly known as Twitter) as of November 13, 2023,” the company stated. “This includes posting and viewing content, trophies, and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or logging in with an X account to do so), as well as the ability to view any content published on X on PS5/PS4.”
When the PS4’s new sharing feature originally launched back in 2013, Twitter was one of the three major social media platforms that it was directly connected to, along with Facebook and YouTube. The DualShock 4 had a brand-new button specifically for taking pictures and instantly sharing them online. The instantaneous sharing of secrets, spoilers, glitches, exploits, and other gameplay discoveries transformed the way people played and discussed video games.
When Twitter integration finishes later this month, it won’t be impossible to continue posting game highlights to social media, but it’s another indication of how quickly the internet is deteriorating. Facebook is Facebook, and YouTube is a headache. Neither enables the live-updating feed akin to what Twitter used to be. Currently, allowing your PS5 and PS4 to sync automatically with Sony’s PlayStation app is the best way to obtain photographs of them. From there, you may send them to your preferred Discord server, create a movie on TikTok, or repost them to one of the numerous new Twitter clones.
Microsoft withdrew from Twitter in April, not long after Musk declared he would begin charging businesses for access to the platform’s application programming interface (API), which is required for two applications to integrate. The billionaire internet investor claimed that the multibillion-dollar tech giant had stolen Twitter’s AI product training concept. Celebrities, companies, and regular users have all continued to leave the ailing site in the months that have passed. Its user base decreased by about 13% from a year earlier, along with half of its ad revenue. Its current estimated value is less than $US20 billion compared to what Musk spent for it initially.
