Do you want to charge again? Musk considers charging Twitter users a small monthly fee to crack down on "robots"
After announcing a fee for blue label authentication services in April this year, social platform X may charge users a small monthly fee.
On September 18th local time, during a live broadcast event, Twitter owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asked how to prevent the "army of robots" from amplifying hate speech on the X platform. He stated that this is a super tricky issue and that the platform will require users to pay a small monthly fee.
Musk said that currently, the X platform provides two levels of services, free and paid. Under such a system, the operating cost of robots is very low, "only a small part of a penny." If someone pays a few dollars to use the service, it will make the "effective cost of robots" very high.
Musk also mentioned in the event that there are 100 to 200 million posts on the X platform's system every day, which is difficult to "regulate in advance", but measures can be taken to "reduce the scale".
Musk did not mention the time or amount at which he began charging users. In April of this year, Twitter announced that the free certification mark would be lifted immediately. Organizational accounts, including businesses, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, would need to pay $1000 per month to obtain blue certification, while personal accounts would need to pay $8 per month, otherwise the certification mark would be cancelled. This news has caused dissatisfaction among multiple Twitter enterprise users.
It is worth mentioning that on July 15th local time, Musk mentioned on the X platform that due to a decrease of about 50% in advertising revenue and heavy debt burden, Twitter's cash flow remains negative. He also stated that Twitter's advertising revenue growth in June did not meet expectations, and the situation in July was relatively optimistic.
At the end of July this year, Twitter's Little Bluebird logo was replaced with "X", and the website was subsequently changed to x.com. "We are about to bid farewell to Twitter, bid farewell to all the birds," Musk wrote on Twitter at the time.
This is not the first time Musk has proposed a Twitter fee. As early as April, Musk had stated that media agencies would be allowed to charge users for browsing individual articles and considered this a win-win measure, but it ultimately fell through.
