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.

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, this claim falls under “I’ll believe it when I see it.” I’ve never used Twitter in my life, couldn’t care less if it dies, but this would truly just be suiciding the site. Musk is a megalomaniac, I can’t see him just straight giving up his platform.

    • Joyboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 year ago

      Elon is an idiot who fcked around and found out with all his Twitter shenanigans, I enjoy watching him make a fool out of himself infront of the whole world now.