Elon Musk has announced that it plans to implement a “small monthly payment” for all users who use the social network X (former Twitter) as a measure to try to eliminate ‘bots’ from the platform.
The owner of the social network continues to search Ways to stop spam and combat the use of bots that alter the interaction between users and hinder conversation.
In this sense, in order to combat the “enormous armies of ‘bots‘”, Musk has shared his intention to make X a payment site for all users who, according to his plans, will have to make a “small monthly payment.”
This was stated by the magnate this Tuesday in an interview with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, shared through the social network. In this conversation, in addition to discussing various topics related to the Artificial intelligenceMusk shared his plans about turning X into a payment platform.
As he explained, charging “a small payment” is “the only way” to deal with ‘bots’, since, although a small fee is charged for each profile, By having to pay for all the profiles of a set of bots, “the effective cost is very high.”
Likewise, Musk has also detailed that Every time a user creates a ‘bot’, they will not be able to do so with the same payment method, but you would need a new one. However, it has not been specified exactly how much it would cost to maintain an active X account, since it has only been stated that it will be “a very small amount of money.”
In addition to all this, this paid version will be different from the X Premium subscription (previously Twitter Blue), since users who have this version of the social network will continue with the same advantages in their account, such as access to X Pro (TweetDeck) or the possibility of creating longer posts, and with the same price.
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