X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service

I hope this is the one thing that he actually follows through on. Drive a stake through it already

It probably won't, but it keeps Musk in the news.

All the more reason to switch to Wayland.

Can we just skip to the part where the servers get shut down? I'm so tired of hearing about this prick.

They will? Or they're considering it?

Two very very different things.

A service that I have to pay for AND it harvests and sells my personal data? SIGN ME UP!

At this point i think hes just mad he had to buy twitter and is just destroying it now.

Yes please.

BURN IT DOWN !

Not a single actual quote from Elon in this article. Does anyone know what he actually said? Because the title states it as a definitive while the excerpts sound more like he was just floating the idea out loud.

Thanks Elon, you're gonna make it really easy for me to eventually move on

Nail. Coffin. Good riddance.

This will hurt the site so much. People will leave.

just die already! ;)

I will believe it when I see it.

Let's not forget that more than half of its user base don't have access to online payment. so I don't know how they are planning on keeping them

Blue tick users: We are already paying a fee

Elon: Yes, but what about a second fee? Premium tweets? Twitter awards?

Since I left Twit-X, I've been feeling no sense of loss. Perhaps, a little smug in fact.

The only way to fight bots is to charge users a fee? Gee, I wonder how all of these other sites do it. 2-factor logins, manual auth prompts, rotating passwords on suspected accounts.... a real unsolvable problem for the stable tech genius, I see.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site.

In a live-streamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Musk said the company was “moving to a small monthly payment” for the use of the X system.

But since Musk took over the platform last year, the company has been pushing its users to subscribe to its paid subscription product, X Premium (previously Twitter Blue).

X doesn’t disclose how many paid subscribers it has, but independent research indicates X Premium hasn’t attracted a majority of X users.

Platformer last year reported that Musk was weighing the idea of putting all of Twitter behind a paywall, in fact.

The larger conversation between Musk and Netanyahu today focused on AI technology and its regulation, though the topic of hate speech on X came up.

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I’ve deleted my account way before Elon bought the company and haven’t been back since. When I was super active on Twitter which was many years ago and they said I had to pay a small fee every month I would have stopped using it right away. I don’t see the benefit of having social media and I sure as shit won’t pay for any of them. I’m in my 40’s so maybe it’s just me or my age but I can’t imagine anything on those platforms that would be worth a dollar a month.

Sounds like he’s trying to recoup lost revenue and I can’t imaging this is going to work out well for them.

Right now it's an idea, but Musk's ideas tend to become reality more often than not. I already stopped Twitter, they do this I'll be gone for good.

This is one of the least insain ideas and that's saying something

Look, we can hate Twitter and Musk all we want, but (a) the headline is absurdly false and (b) charging small amounts from every user instead of having an ad-funded business is probably the most honest and fair way to have a healthy internet and I for one would welcome the change. If Twitter becomes paid-only and removes all advertising and tracking (that's the the big if) it can find its way to become the only sustainable and (dare I say?) ethical social media network around.

I strongly believe that a lot of the decline in the quality of civic debate and the increasing polarization of our society is unhealthy and can be traced back to the point where online media started depending on "eyeballs" and advertisers. (Don't believe me? Just check the headline and read the article, now see how it outright LIED in the headline to make you click). Every news media channel became more and more tabloid-like in a desperate attempt to keep their viewership numbers, quantity over quality became the norm and everything became a "market audience" segmented to perform well to specific editorial guidelines.

To have meaningful change and actual progress, we need to have a healthy media that is focused on pursuing the truth. The current landscape is just a popularity contest. If people are able to vote with their wallets and if they become more than just a number , the people holding the megaphones will win more by paying attention to us than by treating us as cattle who can be milked out.

And people will still insist on remaining there. I'm convinced Musk could shut down the site tomorrow, and people would continuously refresh until it somehow reappears.

Very misleading title. Apparently floating an idea is now committing to implement a policy.

Far easier than cleaning up your site and getting advertisers to come back. Lazy Elon.

Nobody saw this coming. Ever. Not even once. 🙄