Elon Musk has said he will start charging people to use the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

NBC News reports the billionaire businessman, who renamed the platform to X, revealed on a live stream that the company would introduce a "small monthly payment" to combat "vast armies of bots".

Musk has long complained about the presence of fake accounts on the platform, and tried to use his concerns to wriggle out of his deal to buy it last year.

He did not offer further details about the new fee, such as a price or whether it would include extra features.

Sky News has contacted X for comment, though its press office is largely unresponsive.

The move would kill off what has long been one of the site's most popular memes, where users caption shots of particularly striking posts with a near-incredulous "this website is free".

X already offers a premium subscription costing £9.60 a month, which gives users a verification tick, lets them write longer posts and edit existing ones, and prioritises their account in search results.

Musk spoke about the plans in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where the Tesla and SpaceX owner sought to address criticism over his running of the platform.

Since buying Twitter for $44bn (£38bn), the self-described "free speech absolutist" has been accused of allowing disinformation, racism, misogyny, and antisemitism to thrive.

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Mcreloaded:
Exactly what killed

one box.com

that made Hotmail and yahoo mail popular.

one box email back then asked for money and most of its customers ran to yahoomail and Hotmail and before tou know it onebox.com died a natural death.

Unclebayo:
wetin be one box 🥴? Shey na table water Abi bread

Mcreloaded:


When email first come out na [b]onebox[/b]be the koko back in the days lol.
From no angle them begin dey ask for payment to use their email na then everybody pack go Hotmail and yahoomail.

Make X dey find money na so another one go pass am because he need to know say Nigerians and Africans want free stuffs after all he makes big money from adverts

Unclebayo:
wetin be one box 🥴? Shey na table water Abi bread

Mcreloaded:
Exactly what killed

one box.com

that made Hotmail and yahoo mail popular.

one box email back then asked for money and most of its customers ran to yahoomail and Hotmail and before tou know it onebox.com died a natural death.

Elcemento:
Baba, you be O.G.!!!

CJStarz:


Truly, U be indomie pikin🤣🤣🤣

Wodu89:
If you charge $1-4 per.month. People who use x account for spamming would still pay the charge.


Twitter's likeability is dieing. It ought to rather be focusing on convincing people to stay and expanding operations. The popularity it onced enjoyed seems to be on a steady decline.

emmy512:

He also stated one credit card per account except it's a business account which means highest only 2 accounts per card.

So it'll surely reduce bot, will not create bank accounts and credit cards too?

H2ho:

Damn...that purple interface...

You must be 60years old man like me

Wodu89:



Virtual credit cards amigo


Virtual bank accounts

He loves digecoins alot Abi. Crytpo too

emmy512:

Now the cards creation won't be automated like creating a free tweeter account


Imagine having to set up 5 accounts just to setup up 5 bots that should normally take less than 2 minutes to do.

Wodu89:



Lol you haven't seen serious hackers bro chill. I've worked with hackers who mean business. I mean Egyptians, Germans, Palestinians, Romanians, Italians, Brazilians. You don't even know how they think. Lol.


They could go on worldwide shopping cart hack to get one million cards. Use at least 30% to create these accounts and continue their business. Hackers don't think how you normal humans think or reason. Just as your response very basic and weak


We're talking about people with knowledge of how to for example send 100,000 emails within thirty minutes

emmy512:

Hackers capable of that would make much more doing something else than making bots for twitter.

The idea is not to stop bots but reduce .

If bots did 10x before, with this development it'll be 4x, 5x

H2ho:

🔥

Unclebayo:
wetin be one box 🥴? Shey na table water Abi bread