{"id":1015284,"date":"2026-06-18T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015284"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:23:20","slug":"w-marks-the-x-spot-european-social-network-takes-on-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/w-marks-the-x-spot-european-social-network-takes-on-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"W marks the X-spot: European social network takes on Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Europe pushes for more tech sovereignty, social network W believes it has the X-factor to win users away from other platforms: it&#8217;s European. <\/p>\n<p>The competitor to Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform was announced in January but it will be available to the public initially by invitation in the coming days and weeks. <\/p>\n<p>At a launch event in Brussels, the company touted that top officials including EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde as well as EU institutions and media groups were using W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Europe pushes for more tech sovereignty, social network W believes it has the X-factor to win users away from other platforms: it&#8217;s European. The competitor to Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform was announced in January but it will be available to the public initially by invitation in the coming days and weeks. At a launch event in Brussels, the company touted that top officials including EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde as well as EU institutions and media groups were using W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015305,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015284\/revisions\/1015305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}