David Bridges
Elon Musk already introduced that AI chatbot Grok could be accessible for Premium in addition to Premium+ members later this week, and now he is making extra tweaks to X’s paid tiers.
Or, extra particularly, he is permitting some X customers the identical advantages as these which might be paying.
“Going ahead, all X accounts with over 2500 verified subscriber followers will get Premium options free of charge and accounts with over 5000 will get Premium+ free of charge,” posted Musk on Wednesday.
Musk seems to be speaking about accounts who’ve a sure variety of paid subscribers, which is a function that allows customers to entry “bonus content material” from creators they observe on X. Subscriptions value a set quantity every month (subscribing to Musk’s account will set you again $3.96 per thirty days, as an illustration), with the creators selecting the worth level. It is principally X’s try to compete with Patreon.
The issue? Even X’s largest accounts do not actually have that many subscriptions. Musk himself, who has nearly 179 million followers, solely has a measly 149 subscribers on the time of writing.
X / Twitter use is down by practically 1 / 4 for the reason that Musk Period began, report says
It is doable, after all, that Musk is not truly referring to subscriptions, and easily means verified followers. Mashable reached out to X however acquired the standard “busy now, please examine again later” automated response.
