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Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform (variety.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not sure if this is technically Technology news, but I can remove this post if it's in the wrong community

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Musk brought up the idea of charging all users of X/Twitter during a wide-ranging conversation focused on AI that featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. “[We’re] moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system,” Musk told Netanyahu, claiming that it is the only way to eliminate the problem of bots, as reported by Bloomberg’s Dave Lee.

Musk didn’t mention timing of his plan to charge X/Twitter users, nor did he say how much it would cost.

Musk, who also is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has said X/Twitter ad sales have plunged 50% since he bought the company. “We’re still negative cash flow, due to ~50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load,” Musk posted on July 15.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (20 children)

I know it is a popular sentiment that people should migrate to Mastodon, but I personally think people will migrate wherever the people they follow migrate to.

With this in mind, I suspect Bluesky will be the platform to usurp Twitter; but with Twitter chasing off all their users in the near future, it may go to whichever platform is readily open at the time.

I'm very curious to see if Bluesky or Spill open up when Twitter closes the door on its users. If not, Mastodon may have a shot at being the next large platform...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (11 children)

The biggest problem with Bluesky is it's owned by another musk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

There's more than one Musk!? 😱

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What would that be, Meesk? Like, "a Daddy-didn't-hug-me of Meesk just got out of that limo over there."

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