Business and government users may face “small” fees to stay on Twitter, the platform’s new owner Elon Musk said . The billionaire acquired the social networking company for $44 billion. Before the purchase was even announced, Elon Musk had been talking about various changes he would like to see at Twitter.
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Now, he also mentioned the possibility of small charges for specific categories of users, but stressed that the platform will always be free for "ordinary users".
This fee consideration is aimed at increasing the platform's revenue, as Musk estimates that Twitter is well behind other larger rivals, such as Facebook.
"Some income is better than nothing," he wrote in another tweet.
Elon Musk is said to have recently told banks that he intends to develop new ways to generate revenue from tweets, as well as by limiting executive pay or even cutting jobsto reduce costs at the social networking platform.
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The Tesla and SpaceX CEO had previously said he wanted to "make Twitter better than ever by improving the product with new features."
Since agreeing to buy Twitter, Elon Musk has said he wants to make improvements to make the platform more attractive to users. He has suggested, for example, changes to the premium subscription service, Twitter Blue. One of those changes is to lower its price.
Musk has also said he wants to remove spam bots from the platform and verify the identity of all real people.
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It remains to be seen how many of these proposals will become reality.
On Monday at the annual Met Gala in New York, Elon Musk said he would promote transparency on Twitter and said he wants software to be available for public scrutiny.
Source: www.bbc.com
