I was just reminded by grok: due to my tweet containing tags, it may involve project promotion, and I need to confirm the situation. In the past month, X has tightened the creator ecosystem three times in a row: ✅ Banned matrix accounts ✅ Restricted creator rewards for accounts with frequent external links ✅ Now it's time for: paid promotions to be disclosed Twitter is officially turning the disclosure of advertisements into a product feature. The trigger for this situation is simple, but the signal is strong: A blogger cited external materials and tweeted "The 16 most valuable companies in 2025," but used a prediction market project Kalshi from the list in the accompanying image. Subsequently, the product head of the X platform directly intervened, requiring the blogger to clearly state whether it was a paid promotion from the project party, or else the account would face the risk of being banned. In the future, when posting "ads" on X, it must be explicitly labeled. Twitter is forcibly separating "content" from "advertising," rebuilding the credibility of platform content and the boundaries of commercial compliance. In the future, the gray area for soft advertising will be compressed, and the risk of "advertising disguised as objective content" will significantly increase. KOLs/bloggers will either: clearly disclose their paid promotions or completely refuse to accept them. For the X platform, this is paving the way for greater advertising and financial compliance. In conclusion: X does not oppose you making money, but it is starting to require — You must tell everyone: you are advertising.