Elon Musk even wants to charge you for “liking.” Twitter’s new move is an annual fee for certain users, and it’s already happening in New Zealand

Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion euros. This multi-billion-dollar acquisition by the eccentric tycoon has drawn attention for his series of questionable or controversial decisions, such as changing Twitter’s name to X. Now, following Musk’s proposed overhaul of the social network, the company has implemented it. Size “I’m not a bot”. This activity involves a collection Annual fee One US dollar (0.94 euros) To perform basic operations On social networking sites like give a such as Still MailFormerly known as Tweets, or Reply to others.

situation with User doubts Increases by leaps and bounds. Not only that there has been one “Brain Drain” for CompetitionBut paying for what used to be free certainly isn’t good for anyone.

This new project, which Starting today In regions New Zealand And Philippines Installs both to test its reliability before global implementation New users such as Not verified They definitely are Pay an annual subscription One USD to use the app. Those who decide not to pay can still access the site, but can only read content and not interact with others, although they can follow like-minded users.

When we refer to “unverified accounts,” we’re not referring to the ones that aren’t Twitter Blue. to Avoid payingCompany They will ask you to register our Phone no and to apply a Double check system In our account, this will allow us to continue using the platform as before. We are not required to update our profile on the social network, although if we decide to do so, we will be exempt from paying additional fees.

Why is Twitter starting to charge for an annual subscription?

He The reason After this first step in making Twitter a paid social network, we see that European union And in a mechanism to prevent the scourge of RRSS: The Wrong information. Last week, EU bodies They warned of an increase in bot accounts and misinformation On stage, the situation in the Gaza Strip escalated. The community demanded that Musk stop all illegal or abusive content on X, which includes paying for it to verify That’s who behind A of an account A real person.

According to the quotation Platform Help Center“This will prove a powerful move to help us to fight Bots And this Spammers On that day In other countries, it seems that testing has been set up only for these two regions for now. X stands for will be shared The Results This test operation soon. If they are positive, it is expected to be implemented in other markets.

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