by Kwan Wei Kevin Tan at Business Insider
- Elon Musk said X, formerly Twitter, might be rolling out a paywall to all its users.
- Musk said the move would be critical to help deal with bots on the platform.
- The billionaire didn’t give specifics but said X would charge “just a small amount of money.”
Elon Musk said X, his social-media platform previously known as Twitter, might be introducing a paywall for all users.
“The single most important reason that we are moving to having a small monthly payment for the use of the X system, is it is the only way I could think of to combat vast armies of bots,” Musk said during a livestream on X with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday.
Musk told Netanyahu that having a payment system and prioritizing premium users’ posts would help minimize the influence of bots.
“Because a bot costs a fraction of a penny, call it a tenth of a penny, but even if it has to pay a few dollars or something, some minor amount, the effective cost of bots is very high,” Musk said…
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