Elon Musk plans to make X (Twitter) a paid-for platform to tackle bots
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Elon Musk is planning to make X (formerly known as Twitter) a paid-for platform for all users.
In a bid to tackle the issue of rampant bot activity, he unveiled proposals to roll out small monthly subscriptions during a live conversation with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Musk did not specify how much the plans would cost or what features would be included at the lowest tier.
However, he did claim that X now has 550 million monthly users that typically post 100 million to 200 million posts a day – although it’s not yet known what proportion of this data is bots versus authentic users.
This marks a 140% increase on the “average monetizable daily active usage” of 229 million reported by Twitter in May 2022, before Musk’s takeover.