In the lawsuit, submitted in England, X alleged that two identified defendants, along with several unidentified account operators, ran coordinated accounts focused on Bitcoin to maximize their engagement and make at least £207,384 from the platform’s previous Creator Revenue Sharing Program.
The Sept. 17 claim named Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa and “persons unknown”. X Internet Unlimited Company and X Corp. brought the case in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales. It was ultimately not resolved, and no judgment of wrongdoing was found in the documents.
The complaint alleges that six main accounts participated in Creator Revenue Sharing between August 2023 and February 2026: @Vivek4real, @BitcoinTeddy, @saylordocs, @TrendingBitcoin, @Kalshibacktest and @PolyBackTest. X describes the accounts as coordinated, operated as a unit, and sought to increase monetizable engagement.
The company noted that posts with substantially similar content appeared across multiple accounts within a short time frame, and the accounts did like, repost, and reply to each other.
X also showed examples of multiple accounts liking or retweeting the same post within seconds, or posting likewise-worded tweets within minutes. X identifies three additional handles as amplifiers of the main network.
X says payments to the six largest accounts came to no less than £207,384, and that the largest payment was £74,332.44 to @Vivek4real. The next largest payments are to @BitcoinTeddy and @saylordocs.
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X has estimated that investigation, analysis, and remediation costs will be at least £75,000, but this has yet to be finalized.
Devices, software clients, cookies, and financial identifiers were allegedly used across the network. Suing for deceit, breach of contract, unjust enrichment, knowing receipt, and unlawful-means conspiracy. It seeks the return or payment of money, damages, costs, interest, and any other remedy that may be appropriate.
X states that the suspensions occurred Aug. 18, around a month before the suit was filed, in connection with the platform’s earlier Creator Revenue Sharing program. X stopped onboarding creators into the program on Aug. 7 and shut down the program when creators received their final payouts on Sept. 7.
The platform later began rolling out Original Content Rewards, which provides qualifying content creators with revenue based on the number of qualifying impressions on their original content.
X also excludes fake, paid-for, promoted, bot-generated, or artificially generated content, and content that is copied, minimally altered, or posted automatically.
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As such, the lawsuit comes as X is starting to change incentives for creators to monetize their content. The allegations against Sen, Sherpa, and unknown operators are otherwise unproven.
As of Sept. 21, no public documents, including any defense filings or any judicial ruling, have disposed of X’s claims on the merits, and indeed, the court never did so.
