Marking the brand new milestone, in the present day, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, who herself has been within the function for under two months, has taken the chance to credit score her new crew for his or her progress in creating the app, in alignment with Musk’s imaginative and prescient, which, in keeping with Yaccarino, has seen a heap of upgrades shipped in difficult circumstances.

As per Yaccarino:

“As we construct the way forward for X, the tempo of innovation speaks for itself. If we will obtain this in 9 months, simply think about the scope of our ambition within the subsequent 12 months. To all the groups and companions making it occur on a regular basis, thanks. To our passionate, rising communities of film buffs, sports activities fanatics, tech trailblazers, and the world over – the way forward for X belongs to YOU – blaze your glory!”

The latter be aware being a reference to Twitter’s new ‘Blaze Your Glory’ tagline, which is a reference, intentional or not, to dying in a hail of gunfire. Not precisely certain how that applies on this occasion.

To underline the crew’s progress, Yaccarino has printed an inventory of 73 key updates that the X crew has rolled out underneath Musk:

Which appears to be like spectacular, particularly when you think about that the X crew has finished all this with 80% fewer employees, after Musk’s mass cull.

However on nearer scrutiny, it’s not a wholly correct illustration of latest work being finished on the app.

The overwhelming majority of those tasks have been in growth earlier than Musk got here in, together with Neighborhood Notes, Subscriptions, view counts, long-form posts, and so on. Most of those, as Musk himself has acknowledged, have been already near launch, however hadn’t been given the inexperienced mild by earlier administration. In order that they’re not precisely new updates that the a lot smaller X crew have absolutely applied, as such.

By my depend, of the 73 updates Yaccarino has listed, simply 12 of them are literally new, together with the up to date Twitter Blue (now ‘XBlue’) verification program, longer video uploads, the launch of its advert income share program, bookmark counts, voice and video calls, Highlights tab, improved video playback, and job listings.

The remainder of these improvements are both repeatedly talked about within the checklist, have been already developed by the earlier Twitter crew, or aren’t really key upgrades in any respect (fee limits, the launch of its watered-down transparency report, minor video performance adjustments).

So solely 16% of those listed upgrades are literally new parts. Which remains to be progress, and stays considerably spectacular with so few employees really left within the constructing. However I’ve by no means seen a platform so eager to pat itself on the again, and if that’s what you’re doing, you in all probability need to be sure that these are certainly helpful, related enhancements that you just’re claiming duty for.

The actual problem now, nonetheless, is what X does subsequent. There aren’t actually every other shelved parts from Twitter 1.0 ready to be launched, so no matter comes to any extent further is definitely being wholly constructed by Elon’s new X crew. As such, the adjustments which can be rolled out transferring ahead will extra carefully replicate Elon’s imaginative and prescient for the app, and that’ll give us a significantly better thought of how they’re capable of handle such with their skeleton crew.

Many have been predicting that, at some stage, Musk’s deep employees cuts will impede the app.

As Yaccarino is proud to focus on, that hasn’t occurred but, nevertheless it’ll be fascinating to see how this checklist develops over the subsequent 9 months, and what that reveals of X’s new growth strategy.

You’ll be able to learn Yaccarino’s full checklist of X achievements right here.