Elon Musk Now Wants to Charge ALL Users For Twitter

Do it. Not doing it is square bro.

He told Benjamin Netanyahu?... He just decided to tell the prime minister of Israel? Of all people?

Not like a press announcement, a notification to people using the site? Just to some politician he was talking to while on some rich wankers holiday?

Please god do it. Force the terminally online Xitter users to quit

“[We’re] moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system,” he just told Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it’s [the] only way to stamp out bots actual human users .

FTFY

We're finally reaching the true death throes of Twitter! I'm so happy.

So, he's kinda pulling a Unity.

FFS he actually calls it "the X system." Like it's not still just Twitter.

I want to charge Elon Musk for helping russian terrorists in their genocide of Ukrainian children.

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Make it so, please make it so.

Please let it die. It will be nice to force media outlets to actually put effort into stories again, instead of just reporting on what is being tweeted by the usual gaggle of assholes.

There will be singing, and dancing, in Jerusalem when this happens! Can't wait for Twitter to disappear!

I'm glad he decided to finally kill it for good.

it's about damn time.

I had a momentary panic because it's the end of the month and I'm low on money... but then I remembered I deleted my Twitter account and life has just been absolutely peachy since then.

Is anyone else amazed that it's lasted almost a year?

I love that he is gradually transforming into a testicle.

I think this is the best thing that could happen. The Internet can talk shit but Musk has been playing two-dimensional Chess all along.

Every time this asshole is in the news, I'm happier that I deleted my Twitter account.

Lol. It's like he's in a weird competition to lose 44B as fast as possible.

That may have worked at the beginning but if they do that now, X is officially dead.
Someone explain to me why I'm wrong please.

Somebody convince me he didn't buy this company (with Middle East govs backing him) just to kill it. I'll wait.

I'm sorry, but after all these articles on lemmy about this bozo, I'm realizing he has a seemingly slappable face

Please do Facebook next.

lol do it Muskrat, I dare you.

Mastodon + the Ice Cubes app for iOS is far better than Twitter ever was. Plus the platform comes with the added benefit of a userbase that's openly hostile toward fascist rhetoric.

I cant wait! :D

This is so dumb. Obviously they need to move to a PPT model (Price Per Tweet).

It's a Xitter, Michael - what could it cost? Ten dollars?

Does anyone think it's a good idea for an idiot with effectively unlimited money (though he's working damn hard to change that) to be making pricing decisions?

How do you want to be an everything app with no users?

Hahahahaha! He should totally do this!

No balls if you back our now Elon. No balls!

Everything he's done has damaged Twitter and its user community.

No, no, do it per tweet getting a retweet or a heart or whatever "X" does, so that everyone using the service does it with a huge risk to get bancrupted if people either like or hate your tweet too much. It will definitely work, thrust me Musk.

Please, send him to Mars

I hope this will be the final blow to twitter. Ive hated it, even before musk. I dont see the use of such service

I think what we have here is a "Brewster's Millions" situation, where Musk is bound to a secret contact where he has to lose a ton of money with nothing to show for it in order to win a larger fortune.

Free speech!

Thank you Elon for successfully doing what others failed to achieve by destroying twitter.

Good... fire burns faster with fuel.

That's a bold move, Cotton.

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Do what now?

Maybe this will cause my favorite creators to finally leave that hellsite, and come to the fediverse (not Bluesky, nor Threads).

I was always told "The Stupid Tax" wasn't a real thing... but then Elon goes and does another thing...

He's going to kill Twitter/X and you can't stop him!

Now? Pretty sure he wanted to do that form the beginning.

No one has ever done more for Mastodon than Elon Musk. Kudos!

He could change his name to Elon "Lowtax" Musk, add a forums.twitter.com URL and live amongst the greatest of edge lords.

I just call it Twitter, it'll piss him off more.

So, it'll be a platform that only rich rapists and their apolgizers will use.

Do it coward. I win "told you so" rights if Twitter dies before the year is out.

Didn't see that one coming... back in January

Yes, please

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Mastadon!

Oh sorry. I thought were we talking about our favorite Power Ranger Morphing Activations...

This will face backlash.

I genuinely want him to do this, the response would be excellent

Hahahaha...

Oh wait. You're serious. Let me laugh even harder.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

It will be the final nail in the coffin

I hope for the sake of destroying that platform that he goes through with this change

Will people get all the features back he previously removed after he charges them a fee, or what value does he offer to his paying customers?

Elon: I’m going to drop a deuce in your mouth, and you’re going to pay for it: rest of humanity: ….. ( gets up and leaves)

Elon: come back here! Freeze peach! I’ll give you a pony, pinky swear!!

(Door slamming shut)

Good, one step closer to it shutting down.

I hope that means the account I can't remember the password to will finally be deleted.

23 cents/day via web signup at https://t.co/JUTlIcVsSe https://t.co/mrkHZ2xy6x

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2023

Hm, 14c/day would be too on the nose for him, let’s go with the other le funneh number for the lulz

I would say Elon is trying to squeeze one last bit of cash from this dumpster fire before cutting his losses and liquidating it all, but given past evidence I think he just actually thinks this will work going forward.

And the death bell rings.

Do it pleaaaaseeeee

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Elon Musk doesn’t have the balls to do that.

Yes please! This will finally push most users still on there to actually leave.

Welp, he can suck on the head of his dead bird for all I care. I want him to ban me actually, I don't even use his service, except to slip in subtle jabs at Elon himself.

We need to get a bunch of people he hates - AOC, Zelensky, the NHTSA - to talk about how this is a terrible idea and would make them very sad.

X users after Elon says he's gonna starts charging to use X:

Can we stop reporting on every little thing the xitter site does, thank you

such a brilliant idea

I'm gonna miss the good fan artists on my fyp, then.

Stupid Space Karen.

In my opinion this won't kill the platform. If those still using it are still there after all that happened since this clown took over, then nothing will make them leave the platform. They'll pay for it and they'll continue to enjoy it.

85 dollars a year

First good idea he's had, to be honest ...as long as he axes ads, too. I'm betting he won't do that, though.

Man, this guy's favorite hobby has to be digging holes. I hope he's read the book, it's really good.

I love that looks more and more like testicle.

I found this neat comment floating on the interwebs "As someone who has never subscribed to X or Fakebook, I applaud the move. Not sure what if any social redeeming purpose it has other than being a time killing amusement. And if that is the case people should expect to pay for the value of the amusement they are getting. Obviously, advertisers don't take X that seriously, if they did then the ads would pay enough where X wouldn't have to charge. Deep State propagandists were more interested in Twitter than advertisers. I always saw that as a problem is which why I never subscribed. Finding unbiased facts on the internet is hard as prospecting for gold."

The best way, IMO to combat bullshit on social media is to make people submit their personal information (ie govt ID etc) to have an account. I don't support or condone that, but it would cut down on trolling and other shit dramatically. He's not wrong that charging would stymie bot accounts, but it won't stop them, and will piss off your user base in the process.

Ok just please stop posting about it

I dont care about elon or his stupid companies

This piece of trash sub is like if you had a fire extinguisher that only shoots fire.