from now on if you want to vote on Twitter you will have to pay

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Elon Musk He has broken his silence. After remaining inactive for hours after the completion of the survey in which he made his continuity at the address of Twitterand who lost with 57% of Internet users asking for his departure, the tycoon has once again used the application for which less than two months ago he paid 44,000 million dollars.

For now, the employer sIt remains unconfirmed if, finally, it will take the exit gate and will leave the address of the social network in the hands of another person. What he has shared, in conversation with a user, is that soon whoever wants to participate in the plebiscites that he mounts on the platform will have to scratch his pocket.

Namely, to vote, the Internet user will have to pay the 8 dollars a month that the famous subscription service costs Twitter Blue. 11, in the event that the user registers through the ‘app’ for Apple devices.

“Blue version subscribers should be the only ones who can vote in policy-related polls. In fact, we put the meat on the grill, “commented the user in a thread of tweets that he has opened with the executive. Musk replied, “good idea. Twitter will make that change.”

It should be remembered that, during the little more than 50 days that he has been at the helm of the company, Musk has launched several surveys that directly affect the policies of the platform and its operation.

Precisely, that was the mechanism used by the tycoon to return the account to the former president of the United States Donald Trump a few weeks ago. It was also the means he used to consult whether he should return the accounts of the half dozen journalists who were blocked last week.

A few days ago, the businessman promised users, after the social network made the unilateral decision to prohibit links to other social networks in which their use is promoted, that from then on all changes that affect privacy policies Twitter would apply after being approved in a vote among all Internet users. “In the future, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. It will not happen again,” said the leader of the platform.

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