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X Moves X Pro Behind $40/Month Premium+ Paywall With No Notice to Users

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Social network X is now limiting X Pro access to customers who subscribe to the X Premium+ plan, which is priced at $40 per month (or $33/month when paid annually). X Pro is a multi-column web interface for managing multiple feeds and lists.

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X Pro was known as TweetDeck before Elon Musk bought Twitter, and it was free to use. Before March 26, X subscribers with the standard $8/month Premium plan were able to use X Pro, and now X is requiring a plan that's 5x more expensive.

No notice was provided to X Pro users about the change and access was suddenly cut off, leading to multiple complaints on the social network. On its website, X says features included in Premium "are subject to change at any time as we continue to improve the service." The X Help center clearly states that access to X Pro is now limited to the Premium+ tier.

X has three subscription tiers: Basic for $3/month or $32/year, Premium for $8/month or $84/year, and Premium+ for $40/month or $395/year. Basic still includes ads, Premium has half the number of ads, and Premium+ has no ads except for sponsored content. Paid plans provide vanity blue checkmarks that used to serve as an actual account verification method prior to Musk's takeover.

Other premium features include expanded post reach, post editing, longer post length, and longer video uploads.

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Article Link: X Moves X Pro Behind $40/Month Premium+ Paywall With No Notice to Users
 
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levitynyc said:
Amazing how stubborn the general population is. Bluesky is basically twitter from 8-10 years ago and barely anyone uses it. People actually pay for X which is laughable.
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Yes Bluesky is Twitter of 8 years ago only worse. Non progressive voices are crushed and banned. Bluesky is dead, no-one is there and if you post you have no audience.

You don’t have to pay to use X as a reader.

You only have to pay if you want reach. Even so there are many prominent accounts that don’t pay because they refuse to.
 
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levitynyc said:
Amazing how stubborn the general population is. Bluesky is basically twitter from 8-10 years ago and barely anyone uses it. People actually pay for X which is laughable.
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It's surprising to me (sigh, except in the current political climate where federal agencies want to stay on Dear Leader's good side), that governmental agencies at all levels (city/county/state/federal) didn't move off of Twitter when it started its rapid slide downhill - move to Bluesky, or even better, put out all their official notices and such on their own Mastodon instances - a standards-based decentralized platform that isn't owned by anyone. Would have helped with the uptake of Mastodon, and the agencies wouldn't be de-facto supporting a privately held company for communicating with citizens (I mean, imagine if the government was posting official notices only/primarily on the wall inside Burger King locations, so everyone had to go to Burger King to read them - who would stand for that?).
 
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Elon Musk is America’s biggest welfare queen. Stop giving him money.

Musk supports socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor.

Last year, the satire newspaper The Onion published the following satirical news article about that welfare queen Musk:
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IRS Allows Taxpayers To Deposit Payments Directly Into Elon Musk’s Bank Account

WASHINGTON—As part of ongoing efforts to improve the efficiency with which it collects money for the world’s richest man, officials at the Internal Revenue Service announced a new plan Tuesday allowing taxpayers to deposit payments directly into Elon Musk’s bank account. The mandatory new...
theonion.com theonion.com
 
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breather said:
Around 600m on X, but that number fluctuates and is probably not very trustworthy.
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600m accounts on X, likely a noticeable portion are not exactly active (I still have one, have not tweeted/favorited/etc. in many years, look at it once in a blue moon to search for something - they make looking at another account's chronological post history difficult without being logged in), and a much larger portion of that total is bots and "definitely your super patriotic US neighbors" who oddly seem to be posting from Russia or China or similar IP addresses. I'd be a bit surprised if the active, engaged population on Twitter (who weren't just reading swill from those misinformation accounts) was even a tenth of that 600 million.
 
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That sucks for suckers who actually pay for X, but is irrelevant for most of us who do not. I access X maybe once a month if that, so not very valuable. Bluesky specifically exists for virtue signaling Musk haters, and, honestly, they are more annoying than Musk. I will never pay for X, but I will also never have a Bluesky account. Social media in general is not something that I have a lot of fondness for though and the reactionary flavor of the month networks are of no interest.
 
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The days of the “free” internet are coming to end. We’re now in the era of companies giving us a taste then charging exorbitantly for the services. I expect to see this more and more.
 
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levitynyc said:
Amazing how stubborn the general population is. Bluesky is basically twitter from 8-10 years ago and barely anyone uses it. People actually pay for X which is laughable.
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Sadly, BlueSky still does not have private account.
 
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