X will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet.
X will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet.
X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now, the team is moving the idea into production.
X (Twitter) to soon begin charging $1 annual subscription in order to tweet and interact.
Next move must be to charge users deleting their accounts $1. And Elon can sell your data to make more money.
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Musk: "can I have a dollar, please"
And he claims he's a billionaire.
For once, the money is genuinely not the point, from any point of view.
The stated purpose, and I think it will accomplish this, is that no one running a bot network will pay this for their bots, so spam reduction.
The likely ultimate purpose is to have the user’s payment info saved to reduce friction for giving Twitter money later on.
The problem though is that they’re adding this friction on to the beginning, so as a result I think the most prominent actual effect is going to be 80% of free users (real ones) are gonna kill it then and there.
What are you talking about? Will the spammers pay a dollar to reach an audience of 20,000 or 50,000 or a million people? Of course they will.
OC is talking about bot farms with 20,000 or 50,000 accounts.
Right. So to get boosted or to spread disinformation will become more expensive. the operating costs for bot farms will go up, squeezing out small players. Boosting and propaganda won’t go away, it will just be controlled by governments and oligarchs.
And you think having to give Elon $20,000 or $50,0000 of their yearly revenue will stop them? You think they accounts are generating less than $1 a year in revenue each? Or close enough that this will sink them?
The bot farms have real costs; like electricity, computers, personnel, rent, bribes to local officials, etc. Having to pay 8 cents per account per month is a drop in the bucket, they won't even notice.