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.

    • @mob
      1•1 year ago

      It’s impractical. Pandoras Box of social media has been opened. Killing a few big sites isn’t going to stop it

      • @Chocrates
        4•1 year ago

        He did the whole hyperloop nonsense to sell more Teslas, so there is precedent for it at least.

        • @QuarterSwede
          0•1 year ago

          He did the hyper loop to stop the mass transit systems. Not really to sell more Teslas.