X (Twitter), paid for new users

Elon Musk said that X (formerly Twitter) will soon charge new users a small fee to share, like, reply and favourite posts. Why?

Elon Musk said that they will charge new X users a small fee to share posts in order to prevent the bot problem. Musk said that charging new accounts is the only way to stop the bot attack.

Musk: The only way to stop bots!

Referring to tools such as CAPTCHA, Musk said that existing artificial intelligence and trolls can easily pass the "Are you a bot?" question. Although a small fee is requested from users in the first place, it was stated that users will be able to post without any fee 3 months after the new account is created.

It is not yet clear when Musk's new decision will be implemented and what kind of fees will be charged from new users. Last October, X started charging $ 1 per year from unverified new users in New Zealand and the Philippines. New free users who registered on the platform from these regions could read posts but were not allowed to interact. They had to pay to publish content, like, re-share, reply, bookmark, and quote posts. Musk may impose a similar fee in other regions.

Earlier this month, X launched a major cleanup of spam accounts. Accordingly, the number of followers of most users decreased. However, X seems to aim to solve the bot problem radically with its plan to charge new users.