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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)
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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will believe it when I see it.

Let's not forget that more than half of its user base don't have access to online payment. so I don't know how they are planning on keeping them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you can't pay you can watch some ads every time you login.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How is that going to allegedly stop bots ? they can be made to load the ad and then keep browsing ... just another attempt at raising revenue