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.

    • zcd@lemmy.ca
      272·
      1 year ago

      Anyone paying attention would notice this Pattern, they will be trying to fuck over the fediverse as well. Unfiltered social media gives the poors too much opportunity to revolt

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        151·
        1 year ago

        they will be trying to fuck over the fediverse as well.

        Will be trying? Have you already forgotten Threads?

        • zcd@lemmy.ca
          141·
          1 year ago

          Threads happened so soon after the fediverse spun up it was like a contingency plan put into motion

          • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
            56·
            1 year ago

            I mean, Threads was federated with Mastadon, which has been going for quite a few years now. Threads was more of a response to Musk’s takeover of Twitter, I think, trying to catch the Twitter users who had migrated to Mastadon.