News

Users May Soon Need To Pay To Be On X

Elon Musk recently declared his plans to introduce a small payment amount to enable access to the X platform.

Soon to be on X

Twitter, now known as X, may soon ask you for a small amount of money to have your account on. Elon Musk has been contemplating the idea of creating a paywall to give general access to users using his social media platform X.

If you’ve been an age-old Twitter user or someone who came to the platform after it transformed into X, you might have encountered the huge bot army spamming the entire forum. Elon Musk is gravely concerned about the disruption caused by these bots and feels that adding a payment wall is the best foot forward to curb it.

To Fight The Bot Army

Elon Musk, in a recent live-streamed conversation with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that making payment mandatory has become a necessity to curb the action of bots. From automated spam bots to fake accounts, X is facing a surge in both numbers since 2022 Q1. Nearly 15% of the activity on X can be attributed to either good or bad bots. 

 - Elon Musk

While good bots are good for the platform and help the account owners enhance user interactions, differentiating between the good and bad is nearly impossible. That’s why a payment mandate will remove the need to differentiate between them in the first place. Bots cost a fraction of a dollar, but each one of them requires a separate account which makes the usage of multiple spam bots, extremely loss-making for the spammers.

A Reasonable Pricing

Elon Musk did not declare an estimation of what the pricing will be but said that to the users for whom the platform matters, it will be completely profitable. He cleared that the intent of this payment amount is not to grow the revenue of X. As per the public earning report of Q1 2022, X had 229 Million mDAUs, abbreviated as monetizable Daily Active Users.

The pricing he may introduce will only act as a security measure that enhances their experience on the platform by essentially eliminating the majority of spam accounts. It will also give a much clearer picture in terms of mDAUs, which Twitter had overcounted due to the fake and spam bot accounts earlier.

X Premium, previously known as Twitter Blue, will continue to be the lead premium service of $8/month or $84 annual package with all the features to grow a business on X. It comes with exclusive features to edit posts, higher word length, half the ad load, better visibility, and rankings, among others. One independent analysis revealed that X has ~827,615 active X-Premium users.

Manish <span>Content Strategist</span>
Written By
Manish Content Strategist

With a mixture of literature, cinema, and photography, Manish is mostly traveling. When he is not, he is probably writing another tech news for you!

Want To Hire The Best Service Provider?
MobileAppDaily will help you explore the best service providers depending on your vision, budget, project requirements and industry. Get in touch and create a list of best-suited companies for your needs.

Featured Success Stories

News

Apple WWDC 2019 Keynotes: Top 6 Announcements

2 min read  

Event Date: June 3 to June 7Event Venue: McEnery Convention Centre stage, San Jose, CaliforniaThe Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019 is a showcase for Apple to generate the hype about its variety of upcoming and existing software. It is a chance to connect with thousands of co

News

Google Will Start Deleting Your Inactive Account Soon

4 min read  

Google has recently reached out to its global user base of nearly 4.3 Billion accounts regarding an important policy update around account inactivity. Google will start deleting the accounts that have stayed inactive for 2 years or more. Even though the policy update has been rolled out, it will be

News

Did You Try The KFC's "The Bitcoin Bucket" Yet

4 min read  

Bitcoins are the most talked about tech buzz right now and everyone is looking at the technology for future aspects. The Canadian KFC fast food restaurant chain is the latest to join the cryptocurrency followers list by accepting bitcoins as payment for a limited time. The move comes from the restau

News

President Biden urges caution and safety in AI development during a meeting with tech advisors

4 min read  

Artificial intelligence has been a topic of interest since ChatGPT, the AI chatbot with eerily human-like responses, burst into the scene. Many tech companies are now rushing to release their rival offerings, but US President Joe Biden wants them to be careful and make sure that their products are s

Featured Success Interview

Interview

Interview With Coyote Jackson, Director of Product Management, PubNub

MAD Team 4 min read  

MobileAppDaily had a word with Coyote Jackson, Director of Product Management, PubNub. We spoke to him about his journey in the global Data Stream Network and real-time infrastructure-as-a-service company. Learn more about him.

Interview

Interview With Laetitia Gazel Anthoine, Founder and CEO, Connecthings

MAD Team 4 min read  

MobileAppDaily had a word with Laetitia Gazel Anthoine, Founder and CEO, Connecthings. We spoke to her about her idea behind Connecthings and thoughts about the company’s services.

Interview

Interview With Gregg Temperley, Founder Of ParcelBroker App

MAD Team 4 min read  

MobileAppDaily had a word with Gregg Temperley, Founder. We spoke to him about his idea behind such an excellent app and his whole journey during the development process.

App Development

How to Implement Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in an Existing App?

MAD Team 11 min read  

AI is for decision making, and ML makes the system to learn new things from data.

MAD Originals
MAD Originals

Cut to the chase content that’s credible, insightful & actionable.

Get the latest mashup of the App Industry Exclusively Inboxed

  • PRODUCTS
  • SERVICES
  • BOTH
Join our expansive network, build connections and expand your brand presence.