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X will begin charging new users $1 a year (fortune.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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X will begin charging new users $1 a year::X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now, the team is moving the idea into production.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He borrowed it from the Saudis who would dearly love to kill the main organising tool behind the Arab Spring. A few B lost is cheap to them

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best theory I've heard yet. I could get behind it. I'm certain he's purposely trying to kill it, I just can't fathom why he would if it's going to cost him and other billions. But this holds together.