Old Twitter 'X' to Become Paid Service... Musk Says "Monthly Fee Will Be Charged"

"Monthly Usage Fee Planned to Counter Bot Groups"

Elon Musk, CEO of social media platform X, announced plans to charge users a small monthly fee.

According to the US CNBC broadcast on the 18th (local time), Musk stated during a live streaming conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "We intend to charge a monthly fee to 550 million X users." Currently, X has approximately 550 million users.

Musk explained, "We are moving towards adopting a small monthly payment for using the X system to combat the massive group of bots (automated information retrieval programs)," presenting the paid service as a countermeasure against bot accounts.

He predicted that if a monthly payment system is introduced, distributing bots on X will become cumbersome and costly, leading to a gradual decrease in bot accounts.

However, he did not specify how much the fee would be or what features would be available at different payment levels.

Meanwhile, X currently offers a paid subscription service called 'X Premium.'

Premium subscribers can use features such as ▲blue checkmark usage ▲50% reduction in ads ▲priority in conversations and searches ▲post editing ▲writing long posts (up to 25,000 characters), and the subscription fee is set at $8 per month (approximately 10,585 KRW).