Elon Musk: You can Sign up for a $1 annual subscription on X/Twitter . Image credit: via variety & X
The new owner of the formerly known Twitter, Elon musk, has on Tuesday announced on the X that new users from two countries, New Zealand and Philippines, have been chosen for testing the platform’s new subscription method. “As of October 17th, 2023 we’ve started testing “Not A Bot”, a new subscription method for new users in two countries,” he said.
In his communication of the significance of this new development, Elon musk also detailed that the program will help his company’s efforts to tackle the issues of cyber security breach and create a community-based ecosystem for all users. “This new test was developed to bolster our already significant efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity,” he said.
Objectives of this measure
Musk explained that it is part of the company’s plan to best serve all users of the X platform in hope that, ‘This will evaluate a potentially powerful measure to help us combat bots and spammers on X, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount.’
Conditions for the New Zealand and Philippines Users of the X platform:
Naming the two affected countries, he rolled out the conditions for them.“Here’s how this new test will work for new accounts on web in New Zealand and the Philippines, “Elon said.
Step One: Phone Verification
New accounts created on X, in these two countries, will first be required to verify their phone number.
Step Two: Select Your Subscription Plan
$1 USD Annual Fee (prices vary by country and currency). New users will be able to perform certain actions on the web version of the platform: post content, Like posts, Reply, Repost and Quote other accounts’ posts, Bookmark posts.
Verified Organizations.”
New users who opt out of subscribing will only be able to take “read only” actions, such as: Read posts, Watch videos, and Follow accounts.”
Pricing
New Zealand: $1.43 NZD per year
Philippines: ₱42.51 PHP per year
He also assured that users are safe while carrying out this experiment designed for the two countries. ‘Within this test, existing users are not affected,” Elon musk concluded.
