Giant hand pointing at Promote button pops up while user composes a tweet on X
tomwarren · x · 2026-10-27
Tech journalist Tom Warren shared a bizarre X experience: while composing a tweet quoting the Ballon d'Or announcement, a massive hand graphic suddenly popped up pointing straight at the Promote button — an unusually aggressive in-UI nudge toward paid promotion.
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