{"id":1193799,"date":"2023-10-18T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193799"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:22:46","slug":"elon-musk-launches-test-to-see-if-users-are-willing-to-pay-1-a-year-for-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193799","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk launches test to see if users are willing to pay $1 a year for X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-6228-000931-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk launches test to see if users are willing to pay $1 a year for X\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-6228-000931.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1499\" data-width=\"2000\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/photo\/crumpled-one-dollar-royalty-free-image\/6228-000931?phrase=dollar%20bill\">Steven Puetzer | The Image Bank<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>X has confirmed a Fortune <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/10\/17\/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet\/\">report<\/a> revealing that the platform formerly known as Twitter has begun charging a $1 annual fee to new users in New Zealand and the Philippines. Unless new users in these locations cough up the dollar, they&#8217;ll be blocked from accessing basic platform features, including posting, replying, or quoting posts.<\/p>\n<p>The new fee kicked in yesterday, X Support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Support\/status\/1714429406192582896\">posted<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting today, we&#8217;re testing a new program (Not-a-Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines,&#8221; X Support said. &#8220;New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1976881#p3\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1976881&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1976881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk launches test to see if users are willing to pay  a year for X<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Steven Puetzer | The Image Bank) X has confirmed a Fortune report revealing that the platform formerly known as Twitter has begun charging a $1 annual fee to new users in New Zealand and the Philippines. Unless new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1193799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}