Social networking website x the owner of Elon Musk says that the platform is considering charging its users a ‘small monthly fee’ to compete with bots on the social network.
Since Musk, in the past Twitter Known as the X, it has undergone many changes since it was purchased.
Musk said during a live-streamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that “the platform will charge its users a small monthly fee to use the X system” to combat “huge armies of bots.” will receive.’
However, Tesla and the SpaceX owner did not say how much X users will be charged and what additional features they will get access to.
In a meeting with Netanyahu, the Tesla boss said that X currently has 550 million ‘monthly users’, we post 10 to 20 million daily. Moreover, the new change to add ‘small amount’ is also necessary to tackle the threat posed by bots.
It’s unclear whether the 550 million users figure includes bots and doesn’t compare with the metric it uses to estimate its user base, called ‘average monetizable daily active users’ or m. Called DAU.
But the Tesla chief said the subscription fee would make it more difficult for bots to create accounts because each bot would need a new credit card to register on the platform.
“That’s the only way I see it to counter large armies of bots,” Musk said.
He explained, ‘Since a boot costs a fraction of a penny – say a tenth of a penny – but even if he has to pay a few dollars, the boots are worth a lot.’
The platform has historically struggled to stop the activity of bots, with the company’s former security chief Peter Zatko telling US Congress last year that Twitter doesn’t even know how many automated accounts are on the site.
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Mr. Musk even cited bots as a reason to back out of buying the social platform before the deal was done.
He had previously talked about getting paid to use Twitter.
Now Tesla’s boss says the rebranded X plans to introduce a new ‘lower price’ compared to the eight-dollar-a-month fee charged to customers of its premium Blue service.
Discussions between Mr Musk and the Israeli prime minister also touched on the regulation of artificial intelligence, as well as topics such as hate speech and anti-Semitism on X.
During the conversation, Musk claimed that he was against ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘anything that promotes hatred and conflict.’
“You know, I’m against attacking any group, it doesn’t matter who it is,” the Tesla chief said.
Online safety experts have warned the social media platform controlled by Mr Musk is granting ‘amnesty’ to accounts that were suspended for hate speech and incitement to violence.
The platform, controlled by the Tesla titan, reinstated the accounts of former US President Donald Trump, who was banned after the 2021 Capitol riots, as well as those of Republican Marjorie Taylor Green and neo-Nazi website founder Andrew Anglin. Profiles were also restored.
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