UFC 314 has been integrated with Meta’s threading platform instead of where viewers usually see fan posts from Elon Musk’s X.
The Casey Center in Miami, Florida saw a lot of politics Participantsnot only President Donald Trump, but also Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tarsi Gabbard and Elon Musk.
With X’s owners present in the mask, introducing a new integration with a thread from Mark Zuckerberg’s competitor to Musk’s platform seemed like a bad timing for the UFC.
Posts from X are usually seen along the way in fan responses and journalists’ opinions about how the fight should be scored. However, on Saturday, social media posts thread Instead.
The integration took place less than two weeks after the Meta-UFC partnership was announced, focusing on innovation and content sharing.
“Meta has the greatest mind in technology.”
According to ESPNboth companies will work on how to incorporate Meta’s augmented reality and metaglass into UFC broadcasts.
White argued that Meta is working on innovation in a new fighter ranking system. The UFC boss has long been troubled by some of the decisions made by media members that influenced the rankings of fighter jets. announcement A change occurred last October.
“Meta has the greatest mind in technology, and they are trying to take fan engagement to the next level,” White said in a statement.
Zuckerberg added, “I love the sport and look forward to working with the UFC to enable fans to experience it in new ways.”
Although the financial terms have not been revealed, the partnership comes after an ever-growing relationship between the two entrepreneurs who culminated in White, who was appointed to Meta’s board of directors in February.
White said he visited Zuckerberg for dinner at Lake Tahoe at the time, and was impressed by the decoration and attitude.
“[I] Step into his living room at his house and they put me in the living room and wait. I said Tucker Carlson.
White said he was also impressed by Zuckerberg, who sports “the biggest American flag you’ve ever seen” in his backyard above the lake.
White said, “We sat down and had dinner, maybe four hours of talk, then we got away from that first meeting and fell in love with Mark, and from there we started to form a relationship. We talked…and we became friends.”
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