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Elon Musk’s X continues its battle with legacy media and traditional websites with its launch of long form articles, which vastly expands the possibilities open to writers on the platform.
Announced in a post on X yesterday (March 7), the feature expands the previous character limit from 25,000 by around four times, up to 100,000 characters. It also allows for media embedding, including images, videos, and of course, X posts.
However, currently, the editor is basic. While it can do basic text formatting like bold, italic, strikethrough, and bullet point and numbered lists, it lacks a markdown reader and can’t handle code blocks, something X users have already been requesting.

I’ve been using articles, and they’re fantastic! It would be beneficial to incorporate something like markdown for easier editing. One significant challenge I’ve encountered is the inability to include code snippets in my articles. I’ve had to resort to taking screenshots of my…
— storm (@snowcra5h) March 8, 2024

When a user has written an article, it will appear in a new tab on their profile alongside their replies and media tabs. When reading an article, users have the option to full-screen the page for a cleaner, distraction-free interface, which is a nice addition.
Articles behave like normal X posts, with the ability to reply, repost, and like any article post.
Who can write articles on X/Twitter?
‘Articles’ is a feature that is only available to Premium + subscribers on X. While a Premium account costs around $130 annually, Premium + is double that at around $260 – more if you pay monthly instead of annually.
Presently, it is unclear what the uptake will be for this feature. Under Elon Musk, X has become increasingly hostile to journalists and people who create content off-platform. It notably suppresses Substack links, and removed headlines from links to external content, minimizing the capacity for creators to reach their audiences.
Musk has previously discussed his plans to take on live streaming platform Twitch, owned by Amazon, and bring monetized live streaming directly to X. X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino also encouraged Rockstar Games to upload the trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 directly to X rather than sharing a YouTube link. They did so, but more than 24 hours after sharing the link to the YouTube video.
His goal seems to be to minimize the reasons users would ever leave the site by gradually adding features that have been siloed across different services and rolling them into one huge X ecosystem that charges a fee and keeps users on-site, endlessly scrolling through a variety of content types. Whether he will be successful remains to be seen.
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With the new season of Fortnite comes some new boss characters, but we have the feeling that not only is Zeus going to be the coolest of the four, but also the most popular, just simply because, well he’s Zeus, isn’t he? Lightning and all that.
Defeating him is worth the rewards you will gain, but first, you have to locate where he is hiding out so give yourself that little extra edge by knowing where to go, because before too long you are not going to be the only one with the same idea!
Where to find Zeus in Fortnite
On our new map page, we talked about the new Points of Interest that Chapter 5 Season 2 has brought with it. One of those is Mount Olympus and it is no huge surprise that this is where the God Zeus likes to hang out – cool coffee shops, good shopping, etc. It’s a cool neighborhood.
Once you have arrived at Mount Olympus hang around until Zeus spawns, hopefully, that will not take too long, or he might already be hanging about if you are really lucky. Approach him and he will attack you.
Zeus’s main attack is with his Thunderbolt mythic weapon, which is what you want for yourself. It packs a decent hit so don’t stand still or out in the open for too long or your game might end quicker than you would like.
Rewards for beating Zeus
Zeus carries two Mythics which means he is very much worth fighting and defeating as getting your paws on these will give you an edge in the Battle for real.
He will drop the Huntress DMR and the Thunderbolt of Zeus – which is the weapon he just tried to destroy you with. Now it is yours to wreak havoc on whoever is left standing in your way.
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A new season of Fortnite brings us a new Battle Pass and a new delve into our stash of V Bucks to buy it and whatever else we can be tempted with from the Item Shop. Of course, if you pay your monthly Fortnite Crew subscription you have less to worry about in terms of actual cash transactions, but we are sure there will be some new goodies that will pique your interest.
After all, you need to look your best on the new Season 2 map, don’t you? Let’s see what taking part in the new Battle Pass will bring you.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 Battle Pass
The new Myths and Mortals season is here and we are set to be battling some of Ancient Greek mythology’s tough guys, but if you have the requisite 950 V-Bucks to get on the Battle Pass Premium Tier, there are rewards to be had all along the way and as soon as the game unlocks for everybody we will bring you news of every single one of them. Let’s see what could be yours that we know about already.
Confirmed skins

Aphrodite
Artemis
Cerberus (unlocks upon purchase of the new Battle Pass)
Hades
Medusa
Poseidon
Zeus

There is a lot of Godlike action there, you can already tell this season is going to be cool.
We will also, as leaked a few weeks ago, be getting Korro from Avatar: The Last Airbender but this skin will not arrive until mid-season, so we likely have about five or six weeks to wait before we can add that one to the collection.
Stay tuned to this page for updates as we get them
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