X plans to charge new users for liking and posting tweets

X, formerly known as Twitter, intends to charge new sign-ups for features including liking, replying, and posting content. Elon Musk suggested a "small fee" in support of this effort to stop spam and bots. Nevertheless, information regarding implementation and guaranteeing authentic user involvement is withheld, creating doubts regarding its influence on the user experience and platform integrity.

An X account recently posted about the changes on the website to which Musk responded by saying that charging a small amount of fee to new accounts was the "only way" to stop the "onslaught of bots".

He wrote, "Current AI (all troll farms) can pass 'Are you a bot' with ease," referring to CAPTCHA.

Musk responded to another user saying that the new accounts would be able to post after three months of creation without paying a fee.

"They (new users) will be able to write actions for free after three months," Musk wrote.

However, Musk has not unveiled how much fee X platform would charge from new users. In October 2023, the platform was charging $1 per year from new unverified users in New Zealand and the Phillipines. The new free users from these regions could only read the posts but could not interact with them. To write a post, repost, or reply to a post, the new users had to pay a fee. Musk might apply a fee similar to other regions.