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.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    152·
    10 months ago

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

    Will be trying? Have you already forgotten Threads?

    • zcd@lemmy.ca
      152·
      10 months ago

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

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        57·
        10 months 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.