PlayStation is discontinuing Twitter (X) integration throughout each PS4 and PS5 later this month. The characteristic allowed customers to share tweets instantly from their console with a easy press of a button. This meant that whenever you earned a trophy in a recreation or took a screenshot, you would simply submit it on Twitter to your followers to see.
The characteristic can be faraway from PS4 and PS5 on 13 November in keeping with a discover which appeared throughout each consoles final evening. Sony says “As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (previously generally known as Twitter) will not perform on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles.”
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The firm additionally uploaded a assist message onto its web site detailing the change:
“This contains the flexibility to view any content material printed on X on PS5/PS4, and the flexibility to submit and examine content material, trophies, and different gameplay-related actions on X instantly from PS5/PS4 (or hyperlink an X account to take action).”
PlayStation says that customers can nonetheless make use of the PS App to share content material by means of Twitter (X). However, this requires importing your screenshots to the app and sharing them out of your cell machine. From my expertise, this characteristic doesn’t work correctly within the first place. Screenshots and recordings by no means seem on my PS App in any respect after taking them on my PS5.
Sony didn’t say why the corporate is eradicating the Twitter integration from PS4 and PS5. However, it’s doubtless because of the costly price ticket that comes with X/Twitter API integration. Earlier this 12 months, X launched a brand new $42,000 month-to-month tier for “Enterprise” customers which allowed API entry. Soon after the worth was introduced, a number of corporations swiftly cancelled their API contracts and eliminated integration. This contains Microsoft which eliminated the flexibility to share content material to Twitter on the Xbox Series X/S.
Source: PlayStation Support
