Lads, I dislike Elon just as much as the next wasteof user, but this isn’t true.
People are just misinterpreting his comment. He just said that there may be a new tier of Twitter preminum that costs less.
Source: https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1703806204894498966 (this is the literal interview he did which people are saying he said this) Yes, the first quote on 34:40 seems to support @imadeanaccount’s claim, but if you go on (at about 35:30) he then seems to clarify he’s referring to a new, lower priced subscription.
Here is the quote:
… so pioritising posts written by by X premium subscribers, we’re actually gonna come out with a lower tier pricing so y’know, we’re wanting it to just be a small amount of money, that this is the (stumbles) it’s a longer discussion but in my view this is the only defense against vast armies of bots.
The reasoning that this proposed new lower tier of premium may happen is to combat bots, which was also mentioned in the original quote that people are alarmed over (people saying this quote is saying about putting twitter behind a paywall)
"The single most important reason that we are moving to having a small monthly payment for the use of the X system, is it is the only way I could think of to combat vast armies of bots,"
The reasonings correlating on both the quotes makes me believe he was originally talking about a lower, cheaper tier all along, and that he was just unclear.
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i have double the followers but 7 times the number of likes. that doesn’t add up.
i never said you weren't right about what he meant. it's very possible that he did mean what you said he meant. it's just that he didn't actually say that even if he meant it. my original post simply said that he said there might be a paywall, which is true. however, it is also possible that he was trying to say something else but as i am reporting about news, i can only base my conclusion on what he said.
if Elon notices that he misspoke/said something that he didn’t mean, he can easily make a tweet to clarify. he’s definitely seen all the news and yet is clearly choosing to stay silent. most CEOs would comment if they notice that the media is reporting them saying something they didn’t mean, especially something so critical to the company’s survival that could make them lose money/business, as people will leave Twitter. i hope this can be the conclusion to our disagreement and i hope you understand that i can not make any assumptions/conclusions beyond what he actually said.
also, when I reposted your post, your post was already on 7 likes, and was already on trending. And since it was on trending already, your post got attention by everyone, even if they didn’t follow you. So a lot more have seen your post, and because it’s shitting on Elon who no one likes people are bound to like it