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Nikita Bier

Entrepreneur and product executive at X (formerly Twitter), known for creating viral social apps like TBH and Gas before joining the company.

Known aliases

  • @nikitabier
  • Nikitia Bier

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

morluto/rea puts Ghidra, IDA and JADX behind any coding agent through one MCP server

morluto/rea, an MCP server linking coding agents to Ghidra, Hopper, IDA and JADX, gained 25,784 GitHub stars on October 10, according to a dev.to post. That cheapens the labor of reading a binary, but the post's proof that obscurity has stopped working is mostly adoption numbers and anecdotes.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption30
Hype gap+45
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
investConfirmed3 publishers

X adds £75,000 of investigation costs to its £207,384 claim against six Bitcoin accounts

X filed in London's Business and Property Courts on Sept. 17 to recover creator payouts from six Bitcoin handles it suspended a month earlier, and it is claiming at least £75,000 more for the investigation.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 52%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence62
productOne report1 publisher

X tells a London court it spent £75,000 catching a £207,384 creator-payout network

The particulars of claim filed on September 17 name two men in Preston, nine handles and a Stripe profile in a third name. X is chasing payments made under a creator program it has already closed.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption45
Hype gap+12
Incentives70
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

X's new creator program approved one of its most notorious ragebaiters on day one

X ended the impression-based creator payouts it had run since July 2023 on Sept. 7, and the replacement gates entry on verified followers and 90 days of verified reach. The old program, X says, was misaligned.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence42
productOne report1 publisher

X's ranker pays more for replies than likes, and that makes reach a bad proxy for quality

A PNAS study that instrumented 715 real feeds found X amplified content clashing with users' stated values. The named mechanism is engagement weighting, not content merit.

Publishers:engadget.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+15
Incentives62
Confidence52