So now the bot farms will just re-allocate one of their servers to mine bitcoin, paying for the account fees?
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X May Charge New Users a 'Small Fee' to Post, Like and Reply
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Oh, okay… So, this is the hill that Twitter now wants to die on. Well, ain’t that special?![]()
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) will soon begin charging new users "a small fee" for posting content and liking, replying, and bookmarking tweets, according to CEO Elon Musk.
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X Daily News, a feed that posts X updates, today noticed that text strings on the website have been updated to mention a small annual fee that new users will need to pay in order to access the social network.
Musk said in response that the fee for new users is "the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots."
The fee has previously been tested in New Zealand and the Philippines, and Musk says that it is applicable only to those who are new to Twitter. When a new user signs up, the user will need to pay the fee, or wait for three months to be able to engage on the network. The updated language on the Twitter site:
The text does not mention being able to post for free after three months, but Musk confirmed that "write actions" would be free after that time period.
It is unclear how the policy will stop spam accounts and bots, as spammers will be able to pay the fee or simply create multiple accounts and wait to be able to post. Regular users, meanwhile, could be discouraged from using X due to the extra step and the fact that other social networks are free.
The fee appears to be around $1, as it costs $1.75 NZD in New Zealand. The pay-for-access policy has not yet been implemented outside of New Zealand and the Philippines.
Musk said that fake accounts also use up "the available namespace" limiting the "good handles." X has freed up over a million usernames so far, and will "free up tens of millions in the coming weeks."
Article Link: X May Charge New Users a 'Small Fee' to Post, Like and Reply
Before X, Twitter suspended me and left me out - even with Elon Musk as a new owner and renamed it X - for FIVE years only to learn last month that my screen name is permanently erased OFF by X!
Now I don't feel like re-joiningTwitter - oops, I mean.... "X".
Now I don't feel like re-joining
Not sure how this does anything to stop existing bot and spam accounts.
The bot issue has existed for a long time on Twitter. It got WORSE with Elon.
I would not be surprised one bit if he removed whatever processes were in place to help keep bots down to increase it just so he could come out with something like this later on.
it doesn't. But it might just be a gateway to rolling out those charges to existing accounts.
Meta has like 30x the DAU traffic of Twitter and you don't see it completely over-run with bots and spam account.
The way you do it is with Trust & Safety teams and experienced engineers. But Musk fired all of those.
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Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) will soon begin charging new users "a small fee" for posting content and liking, replying, and bookmarking tweets, according to Elon Musk.
![X-twitter-logo.jpg]()
X Daily News, a feed that posts X updates, today noticed that text strings on the website have been updated to mention a small annual fee that new users will need to pay in order to access the social network.
Musk said in response that the fee for new users is "the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots."
The fee has previously been tested in New Zealand and the Philippines, and Musk says that it is applicable only to those who are new to Twitter. When a new user signs up, the user will need to pay the fee, or wait for three months to be able to engage on the network. The updated language on the Twitter site:
The text does not mention being able to post for free after three months, but Musk confirmed that "write actions" would be free after that time period.
It is unclear how the policy will stop spam accounts and bots, as spammers will be able to pay the fee or simply create multiple accounts and wait to be able to post. Regular users, meanwhile, could be discouraged from using X due to the extra step and the fact that other social networks are free.
The fee appears to be around $1, as it costs $1.75 NZD in New Zealand. The pay-for-access policy has not yet been implemented outside of New Zealand and the Philippines.
Musk said that fake accounts also use up "the available namespace" limiting the "good handles." X has freed up over a million usernames so far, and will "free up tens of millions in the coming weeks."
Article Link: X May Charge New Users a 'Small Fee' to Post, Like and Reply
How about disliking, free?
Feel free to post on X, where ten thousand nerds will defend Elon’s every idiot move.
or wait 3 months and you can access it for free. maybe read the article?
I was told competition is coming
yet even Jane, who left X and joined Meta to work on Threads came back to X
yet even Jane, who left X and joined Meta to work on Threads came back to X
Troll factory flooded with fake accounts after moderation is replaced with vibes. Portion of meaningless useless replies increased because bluechecks have the pipedream of monetizing with a sea of vapid “agreed“ and “interesting“ one-word add-nothing tweets, which are floated to the top because they paid a toll. Musk couldn’t have more quickly undone the utility of Twitter. Used to be the place online for witnessing second-hand the urgency of emerging events. Please convince Elon we figured out the science and let him take a rocket to Mars.
X can su#k it.![]()
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) will soon begin charging new users "a small fee" for posting content and liking, replying, and bookmarking tweets, according to Elon Musk.
![X-twitter-logo.jpg]()
X Daily News, a feed that posts X updates, today noticed that text strings on the website have been updated to mention a small annual fee that new users will need to pay in order to access the social network.
Musk said in response that the fee for new users is "the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots."
The fee has previously been tested in New Zealand and the Philippines, and Musk says that it is applicable only to those who are new to Twitter. When a new user signs up, the user will need to pay the fee, or wait for three months to be able to engage on the network. The updated language on the Twitter site:
The text does not mention being able to post for free after three months, but Musk confirmed that "write actions" would be free after that time period.
It is unclear how the policy will stop spam accounts and bots, as spammers will be able to pay the fee or simply create multiple accounts and wait to be able to post. Regular users, meanwhile, could be discouraged from using X due to the extra step and the fact that other social networks are free.
The fee appears to be around $1, as it costs $1.75 NZD in New Zealand. The pay-for-access policy has not yet been implemented outside of New Zealand and the Philippines.
Musk said that fake accounts also use up "the available namespace" limiting the "good handles." X has freed up over a million usernames so far, and will "free up tens of millions in the coming weeks."
Article Link: X May Charge New Users a 'Small Fee' to Post, Like and Reply
Amazing. We should feel privileged to have insight into this God level intellect. Musk is clearly playing 6 dimensional chess
How will charging new users do anything for the bots currently using it? 😂😂😂😂😂
So what I get from this is that he is trying to monetize new bots.
My experience is the exact opposite of everything you just said. I honestly can't even understand how you've come to this conclusion.