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EXCLUSIVE: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, and quote, according to a source familiar with the matter and later confirmed by the company.
The company will begin charging the fee on Tuesday for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines, marking one of the most significant changes to the social media platform since Elon Musk acquired the company nearly a year ago.
In a statement published shortly after Fortune reported the news of the $1 plan, X ‘s support account confirmed the details and described the move as a way to curb the prevalence of bots and spam on the platform, rather than a money-making endeavor. “This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver,” the company said.
https://twitter.com/Support/status/1714429406192582896
Starting today, we're testing a new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post & interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected.
This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver.
And so far, subscription options have proven to be the main solution that works at scale.
More details → https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/not-a-bot
The company published the “Not-a-Bot Terms and Conditions” today outlining its plan for a paid subscription service that gives users certain abilities on their platform, like posting content and interacting with other users. This program is different from X Premium, which offers more features like “Undo” and “Edit” for posts for $8 a month. Given the company's tumultuous reputation under Musk, some users have voiced their hesitancy to turn over their credit card info.
X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. During a livestreamed conversation with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, Musk said “It's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”
Shortly after the announcement, Musk tweeted that you can “read for free, but $1/year to write.”
“It's the only way to fight bots without blocking real users,” Musk wrote. “This won't stop bots completely, but it will be 1000X harder to manipulate the platform.”
X CEO Linda Yaccarino was asked last month onstage at Vox's Code Conference about how going to a full subscription model on X will affect revenue, something that is now going live to users today. Yaccarino answered at the time, “Did he say that or did he say he's thinking about it?”
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Elon is r-slurred
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People used to buy $1 apps all the time, it just sounds stupid cuz its a social media site and those are usually desperatep to generate content
Elon is really set on making Twitter contributors an elite class, where to become elite you fork over a small amount of money
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One whole dollar?!
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PalestinePingsalot TheOverSeether 9mo ago #5198391 spent 0 currency on pingsTwitter's value to the average person is in the negatives, so $1 is way too high
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he should really make it $100 in my honest opinion.
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my main issue with it is that I'm pissed off it might actually work and more platforms will begin monetizing this way.
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Of course it will work so long as losers refuse to touch grass
All the other shit didn't kill it, because the users are addicted
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Mandatory paypig status for rdrama incoming
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PalestinePingsalot August 9mo ago #5198402 spent 0 currency on pingsGlorious utopia where /r/antiworkers have to dip into their funko budget to cry about how they can't afford food or water
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Good I guarantee normies won't use it anymore then
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Okay now explain the r-slurred X halfway rebrand shit.
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Nibba bangs weird pop stars and names his kids R2-Strag2 why did you think this was different
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Because he thinks X is cool.
Also he wants it to be an all encompassing app like WeChat in China and I guess he didn't want that app to be called twitter.
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little shit put the logo right in the corner on the embeds and made it look like the close button for ads
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I have fallen for that more times then I'd like to admit.
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Elon is r-slurred
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Regressing to SomethingAwful
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lowtax is smiling in his grave
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Smiling up at us right now with love
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Free speech isn't free. It costs a fricking buck a fricking year.
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So 1 weeks salary in the Philippines
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either way, I'd be surprised if this actually happens.
it just sounds like another r-slurred idea that won't be implemented.
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I wonder if the FSB budget will run to $1 for a twitter? This should be a very effective countermeasure as long as oil prices don't go up.
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Russia doesn't traffic in dollars
They take what they want with blood and steel.
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Its like he wants to torpedo
my sidejobwhite collar foids of being a social media slut.Jump in the discussion.
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Whatsapp used to cost about that much afaik and people were happy enough to pay it. I actually don't think it's a bad idea, the only way to really hurt spambots is to make it unprofitable to spam. idk if real users will pay even that much tho
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zoz
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Twitter users will literally pay it.
I am dumbfounded people can't see the irony of saying a site is "doomed to failed due to Y policy" when every time Elon farts it ends up on my news feed.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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PalestinePingsalot lain 9mo ago #5198410 spent 0 currency on pingsIt ends up on your newsfeed because many journ*lists are twitter addicts, not because the site actually matters. Facebook endeavors never get this level coverage despite being a profitable company instead of a meme
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Facebook has like 1,000,000,000 users but it almost doesn't exist in the media. Twitter has 1,000,000 at a push, and maybe 100,000 active ones, but 50k of those are rslurred journos who've spent so long "dunking" on each other on twitter they've forgotten it's not actually their job, it's the thing they do instead of their job because they're too lazy to investigate a story that didn't happen in their newsfeed..
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However 280 million of those facebooks are boomers who got their accounts hacked so just made a new one that is exactly the same
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Almost all the top reply guys for Trump were media employees from outlets like CNN.
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Anyone who pays $1 to Xitter without a virtual card like privacy.com deserves anything bad happening to them
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Real old Musky.
surely no scammers would ever spend an entire dollar
I think twitter (or Grimussy?) maybe broke his brain so he thinks that site is more valuable to shitposters than to scammers: the only people who actually make money using it.
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Scammers won't want their payment info and personal details associated with scam accounts. They'll have to find someone else's bank details, which is a significant barrier to entry
And how are bot farms gonna pay that dollar for thousands of accounts? They'll somehow need almost as many bank accounts or get instantly flagged as suspicious. And when they're caught and banned it's trivial to permanently block their payment details, so they'll need even more bank accounts
Bank accounts aren't easy to get en masse. Why do you think all those sexy Indian dude scammers insist you send google play codes instead of just transferring the money?
Honestly, I think you're the smoothbrain here
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You misunderstand: They want to receive lots of money, not just spend $1. Stolen credit cards and personal account details are so fricking cheap, you can buy them in batches of hundreds of thousands.
If Elon thinks his payment processor (Stripe? Braintree?) is great at filtering out fraudulent cards, he should hire their fraud team to run his anti-bot jihad. But this stunt is just outsourcing fraud detection and irritating actual users (most of whom he will find do not get anywhere near $1 of utility from X).
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Yeah and how easy is it to get money out of those accounts without being caught by either the bank or the legitimate owner? There's a reason they're so cheap.
Anything that gives scammers additional costs / barriers to entry will massively cut down on their numbers. Most scammers are genuinely dumb. COULD a scammer get past the $1 requirement? Yes, obviously. Will most scammers bother doing it at scale? Lolno
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Any scammer that makes money with his twitter scams (or thinks he will) has much more incentive to pay $$$ than most of the regular users who only go on twitter to tweet about their lunch or thirstpost at celebs or whatever the frick people use twitter for.
Will it deter some scammers? Yeah, probably, but a lot of them will just absorb it as part of the cost of doing business. And it will deter regular users, too.
What Elon doesn't understand is
most of the "bots" he's whining about aren't really bots, just poor desperate third worlders.
most people are not like him, they're not addicted to twitter and it's worth a lot less than $1 to them.
if you can pay $1 to reply-tweet "OMG Elon gave me ShibaTeslaGrimes coin, send to this address!!" and morons will send you $5 worth of shitcoins , then they will keep on doing that.
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Hahahha the twitter addict r-slurs and their parasocial friends will 1000% pay Elon a dollar.
What are they going to do? Go to fediverse with the criminal degens?
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REEEEEEEE
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Honestly if you can't afford 1$ a fricking year you should frick off the fricking internet.
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PalestinePingsalot FormerLurKONG 9mo ago #5198459 spent 0 currency on pingsTempting offer from Musky
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They got rid of it after they were bought by Facebook because unlike Musk, The Zucklord understands it's a lot more valuable to harvest your data than just charging $1 for a useful product.
(the real mistake is thinking twatter is a useful product)
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could be wrong but most likely
kiwi and pinoy gonna get hit for a while and then everyone tell him its a fricking r-slur move just like the "block" button and he back off
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Didn't WhatsApp charge $1 back in the day? Didn't seem to stop people using it.
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WhatsApp is E2E encrypted, ad-free, actually useful to talk to friends, and back then wasn't owned by a tech giant.
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Sounds based to me.
Elon Musk fixing and revolutionizing social media content quality.
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Good luck with that I guess
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Oh no. What ever will we do?
Tbh, I love it. Frick twitter r-slurs.
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