Elon Musk's X / Twitter has a new TV app dedicated to watching videos

Elon Musk really wants X to compete with YouTube. Musk personally intervened to encourage MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star, to start posting full videos on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Earlier this year, X CEO Linda Yaccarino claimed that X was becoming a “video first” platform.Now, X is taking another step in its moving image pivot: A dedicated smart TV app just for viewing videos posted on the platform.”Beta version of X TV is out,” Musk posted on X on Monday night.X TV: Musk’s pivot to videoThe first public release of the X app for TV is now available — and users can install it via the smart TV versions of Google Play, Amazon’s app store, and LG’s app store. The X TV app has not yet been released for Apple TV nor the Apple App Store for tvOS.According to the X TV app details, users will be able to browse video uploaded to X, as well as access livestream video on the platform. Users must sign in to their X account to use the TV app.Previously, the only way to watch X’s video content on television was to cast videos through a secondary device like an iPhone or Android smartphone.Elon Musk wants X to be a lot of things. From a social media service to a banking app, Musk and company have been persistent in its goal to make the platform formerly known as Twitter, an “everything” app. Unlike financial services, X users do currently post videos, so X…Elon Musk's X / Twitter has a new TV app dedicated to watching videos