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In an ostensible effort to combat bot spam on X — which he renamed after buying — Elon Musk has shared his next genius scheme to revitalize the platform: charging new users a fee to post on the website — or really, to do anything at all.account.
"Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots," MuskThis would mark a significant shift for a social media platform that has historically been free to use.that new accounts would eventually be able to post for free after three months, presumably after they'd already paid for that period.
It's unclear how much the fee will be. It also doesn't explain why the updated text describes an "annual fee" when Musk claims that it will only be required for several months. Perhaps he decided to walk back the plan on the spot,. In October, it got a limited test in the Philippines and New Zealand, where X charged new users a $1 monthly fee to use the platform's main features.
Most notoriously, in November 2022 Musk repurposed the site's verification program, which granted users the blue checkmark — which had previously indicated that someone really was who they were claiming to be — into a paid $8 monthly subscription for X Premium, then called Twitter Blue. With anyone willing to pay now able to flaunt a checkmark, it immediately led to
Nevertheless, it seems that Musk's war on bots and spammers is about to turn a new corner, for better or worse. Given that the site has already been
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