If only he hadn’t trashed everything. If only he had taken proper action against the bots (because he has more since he took power).

Since the owner of Tesla and SpaceX took control of Twitter, a lot has changed at the social networking site (which we won’t call X because, like PayPal, that name won’t be around for long). So the subscription service was launched, but now we hear that Musk wants to make up for the money he’s losing in other ways. He wants to squeeze money out of users on a “every little bit helps” basis, but in a way that would put the social platform behind a paywall…

Fortune reported that users would have to pay a dollar a year to use Twitter. Tweeting (we won’t use their new terminology), replying, quoting others, retweeting, bookmarking, listing… these would not be free features, making it the first social site to be full of ads even though users pay for access. This is sad and pathetic.

Whose idea was it? According to Fortune, it was Musk, who has previously expressed his desire to charge everyone to use the site while making it bot-free. But he already charges for features like tweets longer than 280 characters or the ability to edit them. Then over the summer we saw a limit on how many tweets per day you could see on the site (and subscribers were given a higher value), but it seems they still haven’t realized that maybe the big advertisers shouldn’t have been so pissed off that they’d rather take their money and business elsewhere.

Twitter’s website  says it is testing in two countries, New Zealand and the Philippines, with new users after their phone numbers have been confirmed. But knowing Musk, this Not A Bot program will be mandatory for existing users everywhere…

Source: WCCFTech