X will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet.

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X will begin charging new users $1 a year
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X (Twitter) to soon begin charging $1 annual subscription in order to tweet and interact.

Next move must be to charge users deleting their accounts $1. And Elon can sell your data to make more money.

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Sounds more like a way to ID everyone on the platform. And perhaps normalize this practice for other platforms going forward.

Quick access to massive credit card info as well. Micro step to "the everything app"?

Yeah this is a high possibility.

People might think he’s just a bad businessman, but I think they’re overlooking the fact that he’s an evil businessman relentlessly pursuing his dreams of dictatorship based off of actual dictatorships… that is also very bad at business.

TIL my identity is worth $1 a year.

No, your identity is worth negative $1. You're paying to give it away. He didn't offer $1 to get it.