Musk to charge new X users $1 a year for basic account

From a perspective of a normal user? Awful. Now suddenly you have to pay to TWEET? I don't believe people will take this lightly, especially with the shit X pulled recently.

From a perspective of a botter? Probably also awful, but 1$ per year is not something a person in possession of a huge botnet couldn't afford to pay. Especially if X will relax in the comfort of this subscription and ban less accounts. That would make 1$ p/y really rather cheap when you also account for basic computing costs.

I wouldn’t pay it but probably one of X’s better business moves since musk takeover. A dollar is not a deal breaker for most and once you have payment info stored it’s pretty easy to get them to pay for something else.

Neither. Though honestly, charging nominal fees as an alternative to the current adtech status quo may be for the best.

$1 doesn't mean ad-free.

AOL could bring AIM back for free and destroy Twitter with a single feature. Status update history. /s