X (formerly Twitter) may be telling people like me to exit the platform

[icalical]

I just know about this news and I am actually a twitter user, not an active one tho, but I still open it sometimes, and I think it's really ridiculous, they are the one who has problem with bot, they the user is the one paying the price. Tho I am not too surprised because earlier Elon also limit how many tweet a user can view, and Twitter Blue (Premium User) can view much more 10 times content compared to the free user. And if the rules is really applied, and user should pay significant amount, I think more user will move to Thread (a copycat of twitter made by Meta)

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[Iroh]

If this doesn’t drive away more people from using the app than it already has, I don’t know what will. I thought making people pay for a verification checkmark was bad enough, the thought of making everyone pay in order to use the app is almost crazy.
Paying for verification checkmarks was implemented to fight bots and with a check mark, you’ve been verified to be a real person. That didn’t help stop bots. This move of making everyone pay to use the app wouldn’t still help eliminate bots.

It seems most services are now starting to be subscription based. Not surprising as profit maximization is probably at the top of the list of priorities and goals for any business organization.

[moha sasa]

I want pay a dime

I'm leaving twitter

[eightdots]

What about you? Are you willing to pay for X?

X was popular because it was free. Many organizations, celebrities or political figures want to reach every segment of society. But when the app is paid, the chance to reach every segment of society disappears. This means that the No. 1 goal of the app can no longer be achieved. I think it would be a big mistake for X to become a paid app.

They prefer not to protect certain things. They know that communication and advertising are very important things today, but they want to give them up. As soon as it becomes paid, many users will no longer be able to use it. I'm not talking about more or less, I'm talking about taking away the structure of X where people can share ideas with each other for free.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Holy crap....I'm so out of the loop with the news that I didn't even know Twitter had changed their name.  Is that true?  They changed it to X?  I guess that makes sense for Elon Musk, but Twitter had become kind of an iconic brand name (even though I think their service is total shit).

Anyway, I never got the sense that Musk actually cared for Twitter all that much--even though he bought it, I think he was just trying to make a whole lot of noise and piss a bunch of people off that he didn't like or whose views don't align with his.  And he had the money to do it combined with the personality of a troll, so now that he's got control of X or Twitter I'm not sure he gives a shit if people leave or not.

The guy is just weird, weird, weird.  I never could stand the opinions coming out of Twitter or the attention they got from the mainstream media, so I was rooting for him when there was some question as to whether he'd be able to pull of the acquisition.  Now he's stepped back a bit and I couldn't care less what happens to the company.  My apologies to OP and others who use it, but if X goes under you'll survive.

[Alpha Marine]

Except Apple Music, Spotify, and Netflix not only serve content that is licensed by copyright rights holders, they serve content that's not even created by their platforms' users. You cannot compare any of these to twitter, because they are thinking about charging for the privilege to be able to tweet.

What is the point of buying the blue tick if now you have to pay to tweet on the platform in the first place? There will be no difference between the two.

I agree with you. I'm not comparing Apple Music and Spotify to Twitter, I'm just saying it has become a norm to pay for those apps. People pay for dating apps and all.
My point is, that that's the direction we're heading. Personally, I won't pay shit for Twitter although it's the social media I use the most but this is going to be a norm in a while unless something is done about it.

If it works out for Mr Musk others will follow suit with time. If it fails, others will learn from his mistakes and make the most out of their apps. Either way, the world is in the direction where we begin to pay for stuff like this which is absurd

Since Musk took over Twitter, the app has not been fun anymore. I no longer enjoy and I spent less time on the app. Asking me to pay for it will just make me deactivate my account.

[2double0]

I am now feeling like Elon Musk is going to be the next 'Thanos' in the history of social media as he will not only remove bots and fake users, but he will unintentionally kick out more than half of Twitter's active users too with it which will not be a very smart move on his end. I hope he won't ask people for kyc some day to use Twitter (I hate that 'X' latter, reminds of everything that starts from X  ).

[acroman08]

[1] Elon Musk plans to charge users a monthly fee to access X
[2] Elon Musk says he will start charging people to use X-Twitter

I don't care much for X or Twitter but charging users an "access fee" would surely significantly reduce the userbase of his platform.

the article said Elon Musk's reason for charging a fee is to combat bots/fake accounts, while I understand his concern about bots and fake accounts, is he really willing to risk losing millions and millions of actual users who aren't willing to pay an access fee to combat bots? I wonder if he has some kind of plan other than this because doing this sounds and looks really bad for his platform.

What about you? Are you willing to pay for X?

No, while it is useful sometimes when looking up some information, I will not spend money to use a platform that I rarely use.

[Issa56]

My main reason is that I don't earn from the platform and have an alternative to what I get from it. Secondly, this will serve as a protest to dissuade other platform owners from following suit. If this is successful, I'm sure that with time, others will begin to make sure people pay for social media platforms.

If you are making money from X, I don’t see anything bad in paying any amount that he will be implementing for the users to pay, but if you are not making any money and you have an alternative, then I see that as a complete waste of money. But other social media sites offering the same service will use the opportunity to get more customers, and I'm sure if Elon Musk is successful in doing that, later in the future, most social media sites will end up implementing the same policy.

What about you? Are you willing to pay for X?

I know X social media to be a popular and interesting one, but Elon Musk is going too far. I see the reason why I will pay any amount to use X social media. There are other social media on which I can get the same information and fun that I am getting from X for free without paying any amount of money, so immediately it’s implemented that I have to pay some amount of money before the social media can be used. I will just leave it and focus on another social media, and I am sure X will be losing a lot of customers by doing that. Elon Musk should think twice before implementing it, or he might end up regretting his actions.

[bakasabo]

First of all, Elon said that he is planning to charge people for using Twitter, and people already started to raise panic. Second, a lot of people have accounts, but never use them. However, they complain about Elons plans and claim that "they wont use, what they have never used". Third, it is normal to pay for service you use. No one promised that Twitter is always going to be free. Notice that Twitter, compared to other social media platforms, does not flash with ads like Christmas tree with lights. Want free Twitter, accept the fact to see banners and ads all the time.

[DrBeer]

Twitter has become a "perfect" example of "how not to do things". Overestimation of his abilities and "greatness" played a bad role for Ilon Musk. It seems that the man imagines himself to be a "god on earth", and ... everything went wrong in his rosy dreams and plans.

The second problem is the role of Twitter in Musk's plans. There are many rumors that he wants to make a global multifunctional monetizable network on the basis of Twitter (there is no X ). But somehow it seems to me that Musk is trying to create a "manual", managed resource for loyalty management and audience building to promote either Musk himself in politics or his "customer", for example Trump A 40 million manageable audience where you can influence people's minds on a regular basis is a valuable resource. But this is my personal opinion and I could be wrong

[legendbtc]

First of all, Elon said that he is planning to charge people for using Twitter, and people already started to raise panic. Second, a lot of people have accounts, but never use them. However, they complain about Elons plans and claim that "they wont use, what they have never used". Third, it is normal to pay for service you use. No one promised that Twitter is always going to be free. Notice that Twitter, compared to other social media platforms, does not flash with ads like Christmas tree with lights. Want free Twitter, accept the fact to see banners and ads all the time.

The interesting thing is that many people criticize Elon for being too greedy and finding ways to collect money from users, but they never look back at themselves. They are just as greedy as Elon, they just want to use it for free and ask for privacy to be respected and ads not to bother them...LOL. Everyone is equally greedy, but it's funny when greedy people criticize greedy people.

I'm not happy to hear this news because X is my favorite social network, but I respect Elon's decision if he does. Because it's all just work and no one gives anything to anyone.

[coinerer]

X has been my best social media because it is the place I mostly visit when it comes to getting information about cryptocurrencies, but if I see this change and money is required to use Twitter, I am not affected because my account on X is not active at all. All I can just do is to click on a link to visit what I want to visit.

This may open ways for competitors.

If no one can be able to access the site unless payment is made, I will not use Twitter anymore.

Just as the name Twitter was beautiful, it was also great at work. But while Twitter still works well, it feels a bit uncomfortable to change its name to X. Twitter was a very popular social media for cryptocurrency promotion.  Hashtags, Mentions work very well here, which is why Twitter is a very popular social media for promoting crypto projects. But Twitter's popularity is waning slightly for its name change to X

[Texac]

X has been my best social media because it is the place I mostly visit when it comes to getting information about cryptocurrencies, but if I see this change and money is required to use Twitter, I am not affected because my account on X is not active at all. All I can just do is to click on a link to visit what I want to visit.

This may open ways for competitors.

If no one can be able to access the site unless payment is made, I will not use Twitter anymore.

Just as the name Twitter was beautiful, it was also great at work. But while Twitter still works well, it feels a bit uncomfortable to change its name to X. Twitter was a very popular social media for cryptocurrency promotion.  Hashtags, Mentions work very well here, which is why Twitter is a very popular social media for promoting crypto projects. But Twitter's popularity is waning slightly for its name change to X

Whether it's X or Twitter, it's the same, you feel uncomfortable because it's just a habit because you've been using twitter for a long time.  but if you are a new user, you will be more impressed with brand X than Twitter.  the brand name cannot be more important than the quality of the product, as long as X is getting better and better in quality, there is no reason for us to leave it just because it was renamed by Elon.  but the issue of him planning to charge all users is worrying.  but it's all just rumors and there's been no official announcement yet, so I don't really care.

[arallmuus]

Twitter has become a "perfect" example of "how not to do things". Overestimation of his abilities and "greatness" played a bad role for Ilon Musk. It seems that the man imagines himself to be a "god on earth", and ... everything went wrong in his rosy dreams and plans.

You wanna know whats the worse part of this?

Its that some people will still think that he is a genius on being able to execute 'silly' ideas that none other social media platform ever attempted to do.

The second problem is the role of Twitter in Musk's plans. There are many rumors that he wants to make a global multifunctional monetizable network on the basis of Twitter (there is no X ).

I thought he did? some users that bought verified account receive small portion of the ads I believe, small numbers but its actually well worth it if your tweet or account reaches huge number of audiences. This plan might not even last long as most advertisers will most likely choose other platform to display their ads so they are probably on tight budget there on this program

[lassdas]

..the article said Elon Musk's reason for charging a fee is to combat bots/fake accounts,...

That's how the story goes, but...why do people believe anything this dude says?

"charging a fee" is just his way to "KYC", although that's the wrong description here, it should be more like KYP, 'cuz the user is the product, not the customer.
Verified identities sell for a higher price.

The payment isn't the problem, the verification is.

But noones talking about that, everyone just happily pays for a bluecheck,
even the oh so freedom- and privacy-loving crypto-community, because.....it's to combat evil bots.

[dothebeats]

First of all, Elon said that he is planning to charge people for using Twitter, and people already started to raise panic. Second, a lot of people have accounts, but never use them. However, they complain about Elons plans and claim that "they wont use, what they have never used". Third, it is normal to pay for service you use. No one promised that Twitter is always going to be free. Notice that Twitter, compared to other social media platforms, does not flash with ads like Christmas tree with lights. Want free Twitter, accept the fact to see banners and ads all the time.

But Twitter is full of ads, I'm not sure if you noticed but in your feed, you will see a lot of tweets that are advertising which are even tagged as advertisements, so is the trending list which goes without a day of an advertisement taking the top spot. People are not generally complaining about the ads, though it is normal to see that nowadays, especially in social media platforms, what users are complaining about is how Twitter/X will be charging anyone who wants to use the platform even on its most basic features which no other social media platform has done before (at least not one that have millions of users). I'm not sure if you understood OP's post, it is not about paying from a premium experience, it is about generally using the platform with ads that is currently fee.

[Jonny99]

No chance

[abel1337]

[1] Elon Musk plans to charge users a monthly fee to access X
[2] Elon Musk says he will start charging people to use X-Twitter

It's no news that the economy of X has been dwindling and I wouldn't say I was shocked when I read the news from CNBC that Elon Musk in a live stream conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated to start letting X charge every user a small amount monthly to combat fake account and bot dominance.

I believe his style and excuses are not genuine as I wonder if his X is the only social media platform with fake accounts and bots, and has others started charging users for the fight other than from the revenue they generate from ads and other means. His arrogance has cost X a lot and might continue to do so.

As much as I respect the fact that Musk needs ways to monetize the microblogging app, there are some things I won't take. I won't pay for a service that others will offer similarly for free, not when I don't earn a penny from it.

If he makes his deed good, then someone like me will surely excuse myself no matter how little he charges.

My main reason is that I don't earn from the platform and have an alternative to what I get from it. Secondly, this will serve as a protest to dissuade other platform owners from following suit. If this is successful, I'm sure that with time, others will begin to make sure people pay for social media platforms.

What about you? Are you willing to pay for X?

Of course there will be a free to use version of twitter, I guess the standard twitter without any new features like edit and added character count on each tweet. Though I instantly got worried after I saw that it priorities search results, I'm sure scammers will use this kind of feature as an additional way to scam people in twitter. We have saw scammers buying verified accounts last bull market and using it to scam people on a creative way. I'm expecting another wave of scammers during the bull market where people are craving for information and money in the internet. Last bull market was a big season for scammer, what more now where blue checks and additional features is now more easy to get.

[Cryptomultiplier]

I don't think the current twitter will have the guts to ask its customers base to exit the app simply because it is trying to adapt itself or services to fit its current design rather than fit customers needs to their current design. It quite bizarre to even think about it.
The news I read on this is that Twitter users may be expected to start paying subscription to log in and advertise their businesses on the platform.
If so much as the payment before use of the app is the stressor, more users like me, will have to opt for a better and already established social platform for better customer service without even being asked to exit.