Elon Musk says X customers will quickly must pay ‘small’ month-to-month price

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Elon Musk has introduced plans to introduce a subscription mannequin for customers of social media platform X, previously often called Twitter, in a bid to sort out “vast armies of bots”.

During a live-streamed dialogue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu across the dangers of synthetic intelligence, Musk stated a paywall would assist the social media platform counteract the proliferation of bots.

While he didn’t disclose particulars concerning the subscription price, he did reveal that the platform boasts 550 million “monthly users” who generate between 100 million to 200 million day by day posts.

Musk, who additionally owns Tesla and SpaceX, acquired Twitter for round $44 billion in late October.

He launched an $8 month-to-month subscription price for customers for a verified blue tick, a 50% discount in adverts, prioritised submit rankings and the flexibility to submit longer textual content and video messages.