After purchasing Twitter with an offer of 44 billion, Elon Musk does not stop and announces – via tweet – that under his direction the social network could become paid for some users. The CEO of Tsla and Space X has assured that Twitter will remain free for ordinary users, but companies and governments may soon have to pay a “small cost”.
Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 3, 2022
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Twitter for a fee, for whom?
Musk declined to provide further clarification regarding his tweet. It is therefore not clear either how much the cost will be for the selected users, nor the criteria with which the users it intends to pay cash will be identified, and whether, for example, non-profit organizations, journalists and public figures will also be included.
Elon Musk’s projects for Twitter
The tycoon, who is followed on Twitter by 90.7 million followerspreviously said he wanted to “make Twitter better than ever by improving the product with new features.” Twitter already has a paid subscription service called “Twitter Blue“in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand that offers additional features. The premium product, which costs $ 2.99 per month in the United States, gives users access to features such as unsubscribing tweets and bookmarking tweet. Musk said last month that he plans to reduce the price of Twitter Blue and make changes to the service, including the introduction of an advertising ban. reform of the messaging system which would become end-to-end encrypted so that no one could spy on or hack a user’s messages. Finally the last declaration arrived at with Gala on Monday, when Elon Musk said he wanted to “eliminate” bots, trolls and scams from the platform.
The South African billionaire said he would like to pay Twitter a private company, while it is currently a publicly held company listed on the Nasdaq New York Stock Exchange. However, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Musk plans to bring “the new Twitter” back to the public stock market in three years.
Fears of free speech and Trump’s return
The purchase intentions of Musk – who is the richest person in the world – had raised fears and concerns regarding censorship and freedom of speech also because in the past the billionaire has blocked some critical users from his personal account. Among others, there are also those who thought that the change of ownership could allow the return of Donald Trump, banned from the platform following his tweets on the January 6 uprising at the United States Capitol.
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