Social media platform X, previously referred to as Twitter, stated on Tuesday it’ll take a look at a brand new subscription mannequin underneath which it’ll cost $1 (roughly Rs. 83) annual charge for primary options.
The brand new subscription termed as “Not A Bot” will cost customers for likes, reposts or quoting different accounts’ posts, and bookmarking posts on the internet model of the platform.
The aim of introducing the brand new subscription mannequin is to fight bots and spammers, X stated, including that the charge will range from nation to nation based mostly on the change price.
X stated the brand new technique will likely be first out there for customers in New Zealand and Philippines.
Inside this take a look at, present customers are usually not affected. However new customers who wouldn’t want to subscribe will solely be capable of view and skim posts, watch movies and comply with accounts.
Bots have been a contentious subject for Elon Musk who acquired the corporate final 12 months. In July, X had launched a restrict on viewing tweets, “to make sure the authenticity” of its person base.
Earlier this month, Reuters had reported citing a supply that X CEO Linda Yaccarino met with X’s lenders, by which she had stated the corporate would take a look at three tiers of its subscription service based mostly on the variety of adverts proven to the person.
Again in August, Musk stated that X would take away a protecting function that lets customers block different accounts. The block perform on X permits a person to limit particular accounts from contacting them, seeing their posts or following them. “Block goes to be deleted as a ‘function’, aside from DMs,” Musk stated in a submit on the platform, referring to direct messages. He stated X would retain the mute perform, which screens a person from seeing specified accounts however, not like blocking, doesn’t alert the opposite account to the motion.
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