Elon Musk plans to charge new X users, here's why
Tesla senior officials quit as carmaker undertakes largest round of job cuts Musk responded to another user saying that the new accounts would be able to post after three months of creation without paying a fee. "They (new users) will be able to do write actions for free after three months," Musk wrote. However, Musk has not unveiled how much fee X platform would charge from new users.
In October 2023, the platform was charging $1 per year from new unverified users in New Zealand and the Phillipines. The new free users from these regions could only read the posts but could not interact with them. To write a post, repost, or reply to a post, the new users had to pay a fee.
Musk might apply a fee similar to other regions. Elon Musk rolls out Grok 1.5 Vision: How it's different from GPT-4 Musk has previously also talked about tackling AI bots. X updated its policy last year to include a clause that public posts could be used to train machine learning algorithms.
Earlier this month, Musk's AI company xAI made its "Grok" chatbot to Premium X users who pay $8 per month. As per a recent report by Fortune, X planning to make Grok available to all users to compose posts. Made-in-India Teslas, powered by electronics from Tata Elon Musk took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal in 2022 but the company's war on advertisers has hurt its revenue prospect.
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