LSD-brained billionaire edgelord Elon Musk is planning to start charging new Twitter (or “X” if you’re a douchebag) users $1 a year to tweet, retweet, or like other tweets, Fortune reports.
As far as Musk’s stupid ideas for the platform have gone this is… actually not that bad, contrary to what certain seasoned observers are saying. If you’re already a Twitter user this particular policy does by definition not apply to your account. Unless on one of Musk’s moronic whims that does change, this would take a serious bite out of the bot operations hawking crypto and all sorts of other bullshit on the site. “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” Musk said as much during a livestream last month. He could do worse. He has and he will.