KUALA LUMPUR – Tesla chief Elon Musk has again tweeted about a direction that social media platform Twitter may take to grow its revenue, by charging commercial and government users.
“Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users,” he tweeted yesterday.
“Some revenue is better than none!” he said in a separate tweet.
Musk has been tweeting various suggestions to improve Twitter since he bought the platform in late April for US$44 billion (RM191 billion).
Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 3, 2022
Previously, Reuters reported that Musk tweeted suggestions to slash prices to the Twitter Blue premium subscription service and provide an option to pay in dogecoin.
However, he has since deleted those tweets.
In April, after Twitter accepted his acquisition offer, Musk said he wanted “to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”.
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” he was quoted as saying in Twitter’s statement announcing the deal.
His deal also comes with a clause saying Musk can tweet about the merger as long as the posts “do not disparage the company or any of its representatives”. – AFP, May 5, 2022
