The South African businessman and owner of Twitter, Elon Muskexplained this Tuesday that from April 15 the social network will only promote tweets from paid subscribers in the “For You” tab.
The founder of Tesla thus announced another benefit for users of the so-called Twitter Bluewho can access this verification through a monthly payment of 7 dollars.
On the other hand, Musk revealed that subscribers will also be the only ones who will be able to vote in the well-known Twitter polls.
According to the tycoon, this is “the only realistic way to approach control of AI bot farms (artificial intelligence)”. “Otherwise it’s a losing battleMusk added in a tweet.
Likewise, the South African billionaire clarified that unverified bot accounts that abide by the company’s terms and conditions policy and do not impersonate a human user will not be removed.
Musk is trying to reverse the weight of advertisers in the income of the social network since many decided to withdraw when the mogul announced that he would finally be the new CEO in October 2022.
Weeks ago, North American media such as the Wall Street Journal y New York Times revealed that Twitter employees received an internal note in which the businessman claimed that the company had fallen to the 20,000 million dollarsless than half of the 44.000 that he paid.
However, the subscriber policy applied so far and the massive layoffs carried out by Musk do not seem to have solved the economic drain suffered by the bird’s social network.
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