Sounds more like a way to ID everyone on the platform. And perhaps normalize this practice for other platforms going forward.

I'm gonna call it. This is an (obvious) attempt to squeak in monetization for everyone on twitter that is as unobjectionable as possible, and once everyone's locked in the price will increase, and tiers will be introduced, etc etc., and it's going to work. Nobody still on twitter is gonna care about $1/year to keep access. They'll lap it up and thank Musk for the opportunity to be fleeced.

Musk could still fuck it up by being overly greedy and ramping up too much too fast like he tried to do last year (or this year? I've lost track), but I'd say this has reasonable odds of working out.

We should probably stop devoting news cycles to this manchild and his vanity pet projects.

I'm gonna continue my run of not giving Elon Musk a fucking cent.

Are we sure this man understands business?

Why?

That's such a bizarre amount of money it's not enough to dissuade scammers and it's not really expensive enough for anyone to care about, except in principle.

He really is a massive twat isn't he.

It'd be real cool if folks would just stop using Twitter. You can live without it, y'all.

It isnt worth that.

Musk: "can I have a dollar, please"

And he claims he's a billionaire.

How long before they go bankrupt?

Downvote Musk spam.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

Right. I really need to delete my sleeping twitter account.

Guys how would you keyword block X?

Elon would like to leak your personal information to anyone who is willing to pay his price, please.

I bet it will go like this:

1. First, it's 1$ a year.
2. If X survies this, they will eventually change it to 1$ a month
3. Wait a year or so
4. Increase to 6$ a month
5. ????
6. Profit

Keep in mind that this prediction requires enough stupid people to actually stay on X and pay

X would like to collect a very large amount of payment information from a lot of users to then store in their incredibly mismanaged infrastructure.

That would kill 99% of the bot accounts after a while as the older accounts cycle out with bans.

But this kills X too. Nothing was lost.

Patiently waiting for the bankruptcy of this company.

Because its safe to store your credit card info with Musk, surely

Elon took Saudi money and money from who knows what other investors to kill Twitter. It’s all done deliberately and just before an American presidential election year.

Make no mistake. They have a plan.

Imagine paying money to interact with celebrity shitposts when you can do it here for free.

Why are people still using and supporting this hot garbage!?

He's going to learn what mobile games already learned, that the first transaction is the hardest no matter the cost. Also alienates like everyone without a bank account.

It's not even a price issue, it's a logistics issue. Also who knows if people will even trust him with their financial details.

As someone from one of the affected countries, I'll have to decline. I think Elon has overvalued the utility of his product.