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A mysterious pointing hand is haunting X drafts, and users are not amused.

Rachit Agarwal / Digital Trends

You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.

Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.

Is X trying to scare you into spending money?

The timing is suspicious. Halloween is only a few days away, so there’s a chance this is X’s idea of a spooky joke.…