Elon Musk Is Mulling Charging All X Users a Monthly Fee

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-is-mulling-charging-all-x-users-a-monthly-fee



Elon Musk is considering bringing yet another change to X, formerly known as Twitter: charging all users a monthly fee.

The billionaire is already charging users for verification as part of a subscription service now known as X Premium.

But in a livestreamed conversation Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk floated charging all users “a small amount of money” in an effort to fight proliferating bots on the platform.

“The single, most important reason that we’re moving to having a small, monthly payment for use of the X system is it’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” he said.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal

[tosh]

1. ...

[2naSalit]

8. +1

[Joinfortmill]

2. Death to X

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[struggle4progress]

3. Excellent idea! $5 a day? $10 a day? And maybe a fee-per-post surcharge too?

[brooklynite]

5. Can't be more than the $8 a month "verified" service.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. Of course it can.

Not likely by any means, but this is Musk.

[Haggard Celine]

4. He couldn't find a better way to sabotage Twitter

if he was trying to do it. Maybe that's what he wants to do. And he desperately needs a shave. He's already not the best looking guy, and that wispy beard makes him ugly as hell.

[usonian]

6. No genius says "it's the only way I can think of"

💡

[2naSalit]

10. Indeed.

[jcgoldie]

7. Because somebody said "Hey Elon, there's no way you could destroy twitter any faster..."

And Musk be like "HOLD MY BEER!"

[LeftInTX]

11. He can't be that stupid.

He was gonna do this a few months ago and didn't.

I think he may be BS'ing.

If not, then it's the end of twitter.

[Grasswire2]

12. Musk was forced to step aside from PayPal because of the horrible seizures of people's monies...

....and stinking lousy customer service that would make release of the funds nearly impossible for some, at times.

It happened to me. Frozen funds. For no reason. For many months. I would never provide financial information to anything he owns or manages.

[tanyev]

13. All that's gonna be left are right wingers and bots.

Have fun y’all!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Might as well just rename it Shitter

[Celerity]

16. Shitter was Full!

[RussBLib]

15. scruffy, ugly facial hair

Great, Musk has been consulting with Putin, Xi, now Netanyahu? Who's next? Kim Jong Un?

X could charge $1/month and they'd generate an obscene amount of money.

Billionaires in charge is not a nice image.

[Bucky]

17. Well he hasn't figured out a way to kill Twitter yet. Maybe this will do the trick.

You got to admire his commitment to destroying twitter.