Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees

Elon Musk has indicated that X, formerly known as Twitter, is preparing to charge all users for accessing the platform.

The X owner said erecting a paywall around the business would ward off the bots, or automated accounts, that have become a bugbear for Musk.

Speaking in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, the Tesla CEO and world’s richest person suggested that X was going to charge its user base. Currently, Twitter only charges users for its subscription service X Premium, which offers perks such as a verified account checkmark and costs $11 a month in the US for iPhones and £11 in the UK.

meldroc,

Fine by me. Accelerates the process of putting that dumpster fire out of its misery.

model_tar_gz,

I’ve managed to stay away from Twitter while it was free.

Pretty sure I’ll manage when it’s blocked behind the paper curtain.

In fact, they’d have to pay me to join. And with all the new paying subscriptions they’ll have, maybe they’ll have enough.

CeruleanRuin,

Who gives a shit

Fades,

what is this clickbait bullshit??? I’ve seen multiple articles yet the wording is always ‘floated the idea’, but from the headline you could infer it’s an official announcement.

fuck modern ‘journalism’

orphiebaby,

Yep, this is the final nail in the coffin. Most people will just stop. Good job boosting the Mastodon community, Moron Musk.

QuarterSwede,
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, my hot take is that Mastodon is already better than X. Less toxic, more feature rich, more flexible, and built to be decentralized.

MrBusinessMan,

It’s surprising that in all these years, nobody came up with this innovation to make Twitter more profitable but in just a short time period, Musk was able to figure it out. Goes to show why he’s the richest man in the world!

BonesOfTheMoon,

Well muskrat, you’d have to pay me to go back on Twitter so good luck with that.

YoBuckStopsHere,
@YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world avatar

Mastodon.World stock is increasing

Chocrates,

Sadly people want their corporate daddy and Bluesky will get most of them

Tygr,

I think it’s one of his best ideas he’s ever had. I fully support this move and everyone else should as well.

What a wonderful, genius, innovative idea. Such brilliance. I think he should also keep ads on there as well.

alienanimals,

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

QuarterSwede,
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

It’s really working against him at this point. A lot more people that were looking to buy his products and services aren’t anymore.

SirEDCaLot,

It’s an interesting thought, but he misses the #1 problem with online subscriptions- sign-up friction.

If you could just push a button and instantly be charged something, an awful lot of people would do it.
But when you go from $0 to $0.01, you will lose 99% of people, because most people can’t be bothered to fill out a form, put in their credit card number, etc. Even if the amount of money involved is absurdly small, it’s not the price, it’s the friction.

Now if he integrates the app with Apple Pay or Google Wallet that will help, a little. But only a little.

get_off_the_phone,

PayPal? Venmo? Just as ubiquitous and already part of his vertical integration.

SirEDCaLot,

Assuming the cost is stupid low like a $1/year, low enough that almost nobody will think ‘is this really worth it?’-- every required click or tap after hitting ‘subscribe now’ costs you 25-50% of the people who are still there.

Make it 1 penny for a lifetime subscription. Just having to thumbprint for Google Pay will still cost you 25-50% of the people who hit subscribe. Make it a credit card form with card/exp/cvv/address/tel# and your purchase rate is down to maybe 1% of the people who hit subscribe.

noxy,
@noxy@yiffit.net avatar

I think it’s bigger news that that fuck is meeting with that other fuck Netanyahu. What the fuck business do those two fascist scum have with each other?

generalpotato,

Asking the real questions here.

Mdotaut801,

Good fucking question.

tillary,

When Elon realizes nobody wants to pay to listen to Elon, will he rollback the changes or start posting on Threads?

mojo,

Oh hell yeah

stebo02,
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

ngl I totally support this decision

Kowowow,

I am a hundred percent certain you could seriously damage twitter by seeing of the sprinklers(assuming they ate still installed) because there’s no way musk’s penny pinching didn’t lead him to sell or not set up the special non conductive fire retardant

AbidanYre,

You’re assuming the sprinklers are hooked to anything in the first place.

But really, that would have been handled long before he bought Twitter

Kowowow,

That’s why I was talking about him selling it off but he did migrate some servers so I doubt they have any fancy fire setup

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