The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, may soon require all users to pay a monthly subscription, company owner Elon Musk said Monday.
During a livestreamed conversation with the Israeli prime minister, Musk said the company is “moving to have a small monthly payment for use of the X system” in an effort to fight “armies of bots” that troll the platform. Musk believes that requiring each account to register a new credit card would make it harder for bots to create accounts.
“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” Musk said.
Twitter/X already charges around $8 per month for X Premium subscribers. The company plans to release a separate subscription option that costs less, though an exact amount wasn’t disclosed. Musk said the “lower tier” subscription would be “just a small amount of money.”
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