Making users pay is only way to stop bots taking over platform
X owner Elon Musk announced Monday that new users would soon need to pay a small fee to post on the site.
Elon Musk said X will soon start charging new users who want to post on the platform to combat the bot and spam account problem. about X changes, here.
X owner Elon Musk confirmed the introduction of a charge in a reply to an account commenting on the subject.Read Entire Article
A non-permanent fee for new users could soon be Elon Musk's X's only way to stop bots. New users on X could soon be met with a small fee before they can post, as Elon Musk unveils it is the "only way" to help stop bots from plaguing the platform.
Elon Musk said Friday (April 12) that charging users a “small fee” to become active on X may be necessary to reduce bots and spam on the social media platform. “Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” he wrote in a Monday […]
Elon Musk is planning to charge new X users a small fee to enable posting on the social network and to curb the bot problem. In reply to an X account that posted about changes on X’s website, Musk said charging a small fee to new accounts was the “only way” to stop the “onslaught […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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