The new owner of the social network has labeled the company’s current system as “shit” just a week after the company’s acquisition
Twitter charges $8 a month to verify the account. Elon Musk, the new owner of the social network, announced this via a tweet in which he assured that the current system “of gentlemen and jacks on Twitter to know who has and who doesn’t have a blue tick is shit”. .
The announcement comes just five days after the world’s richest man took over the reins of a company that already has only one person on its board: Elon Musk. Thus, the payment system for having a verified account is one of the first decisions of the multimillionaire. And it does, according to the message it published, with a clear goal: “Power to the people!” All this while ensuring that the price is “in proportion to the purchasing power” of each country and will serve as a source of income to “reward content creators”.
With this new payment system, Musk gives other benefits to those users who pay to be privileged in their “big square”. And it’s that these tweeters will also be prioritized in comments, mentions, and searches, which the tycoon says is “essential to defeating spam and fraud.”
It should be remembered that it was because of the number of false accounts that the co-owner of Tesla decided to break the purchase agreement (worth $44,000 million) that he signed in April.
Musk denounced that the social network’s old address didn’t provide him with the real details of fake accounts and bots, so the company, to face the allegations, put all the information they had in their hands since the platform’s inception. After back and forth, the company denounced him, although to avoid trial, Musk accepted the first agreement on October 28.
Source: La Verdad
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