Twitter replace: Elon Musk is planning to cost a ‘small month-to-month cost’ for utilizing the X (previously Twitter) platform. Musk floated the concept in a stay dialog with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He cited the issue of bots on the platform behind the concept of charging a ‘small month-to-month cost’ for the usage of X providers. In keeping with Musk, such adjustments are essential to take care of the issue of bots on the platform. He mentioned that that is the one means he can consider to fight huge armies of bots. Additional explaining his new concept, Musk mentioned that making a bot prices a fraction of a penny, which is round a tenth of a penny, but when the creator of the bot has to pay a couple of {dollars}, the efficient value of bots may be very excessive, and they’ll want a brand new cost methodology each time a bot creator wished to make one other bot.
Elon Musk didn’t give a lot element on what will probably be the price of the brand new subscription plan however solely described it as a ‘small amount of cash’. Nonetheless, this isn’t the primary time Elon Musk has expressed his want to cost everybody for utilizing X. TechCrunch by way of Platformer reported that Musk was serious about placing all Twitter customers behind a paywall final yr.
Musk has been attempting to take care of the issue of bots on X for fairly a while now and is attempting totally different strategies. In early July this yr, Musk put “non permanent” limits on the variety of tweets customers can learn on Twitter. He blamed knowledge scraping by new AI startups for his resolution at the moment.
Musk and Netanyahu’s dialog was centered on AI expertise and its regulation and in the course of the dialog, Musk additionally shared that the platform has now 550 million customers. He mentioned that these customers generate 100 to 200 million posts on daily basis. X is but to reveal the variety of paid subscribers that the platform has however some impartial analysis means that X Premium has not attracted a majority of X customers.
In the meantime, X has banned a document 12,80,107 accounts in India between July 26 and August 25, principally for selling little one sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity.
