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Running Twitter Can Be Expensive, Know What is the Plan

Posted on the 30 April 2023 by Mayankgupta
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Now a new and big change is going to be seen on Twitter. Actually, Elon Musk, the owner of the microblogging site, has indicated on Saturday that the media publisher may have to pay. Although users will welcome this decision or not, that is a different issue. But Musk has indicated to start this update from the month of May. Let us tell that Elon Musk took command of Twitter in October and since then many major changes have been made till now.

Elon Musk tweeted on the microblogging site Twitter. In the post, he has told that from next month, Twitter will allow media publishers to charge users for their articles. Fee payment can be taken from users on per article basis. However, if he does not take the monthly subscription, then the users will have to pay more charges.

still many questions unanswered

Let us tell that some media publishers around the world including India use paywall on their website. In such a situation, a subscription has to be taken to read the content on their website. Now in such a situation, the question arises that if the user reads the article by taking a subscription of Twitter, will he have to take a separate subscription of the website as well.

Elon Musk’s Tweet

Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click.

This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2023

Such reaction came from social media

This tweet by Elon Musk was retweeted by about 10,000 people till Sunday morning. Along with this, many people welcomed this decision and there were some who remained against it although their number was less.

Paid Blue Tick

Microblogging sites have already made Blue Tick Mark a subscription based service. All the users who have free blue ticks, their blue badges have been removed. However, users get many advanced features for using the subscription based service. This includes tweeting longer, embedding better videos, and editing tweets, etc.



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