Billionaire also says platform has 550 million monthly users generating up to 200m posts a day

Elon Musk has indicated that X, formerly known as Twitter, is preparing to charge all users for accessing the platform.

The X owner said erecting a paywall around the business would ward off the bots, or automated accounts, that have become a bugbear for Musk.

Speaking in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, the Tesla CEO and world’s richest person suggested that X was going to charge its user base. Currently, Twitter only charges users for its subscription service X Premium, which offers perks such as a verified account checkmark and costs $11 a month in the US for iPhones and £11 in the UK.

  • Pons_Aelius
    131•1 year ago

    Let me guess. Paying a subscription will not mean the end of ads.

    I have been wondering for a while what he would have to do to finally crash twitter, I think this may be it.

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      42•1 year ago

      It won’t be the end of bots either, it means less users overall, and conversations can be influenced with 100 bots rather than 100,000.

      Small timers won’t pay that, but corporation, PACs, and the wealthy won’t flinch at that kind of advertising budget.

      And now Musk gets paid for them, he’ll never mention bots again.

    • rynzcycle
      17•1 year ago

      No, but it will be the end of his advertising revenue. Does that count?