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.

  • @TheLordHumungus
    71•1 year ago

    Haha, no one is gonna pay to use social media. I don’t use Twitter but you would never get me to pay for absolute garbage brain rot. I’m already on lemmy for that and it’s free.

    • Discoslugs
      52•1 year ago

      They want me to pay to be advertised at.

      Lol.

      • @TheLordHumungus
        21•1 year ago

        Yes, they are called idiots. It’s another idiot tax, like gambling.

        • @Tujio
          2•1 year ago

          The lottery is either a tax on stupidity or a tax on hope.

          I don’t know which is more depressing.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 year ago

            Hope because the people who really buy lottery tickets on a regular basis want that financial security, winning a lottery would provide.