{"id":242534,"date":"2023-10-18T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=242534"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:13:02","slug":"x-musk-platform-goes-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/x-musk-platform-goes-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Musk platform goes commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun rolling out a US$1 annual charge to new users in New Zealand and the Philippines in a move the service owned by Elon Musk says is aimed at combating bots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision to charge new users comes as Musk sees alternative avenues for revenue to advertising, and pushes for X to become an \u201ceverything\u201d app \u2013 including payment services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk has said an advertiser boycott since his takeover and concern about its management of inappropriate or hateful content has caused ad revenue to decline by 60%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New accounts created in New Zealand and the Philippines will first be required to verify their phone number, and then pay the US$1 annual fee to be able to post, like, reply, repost, quote posts, and bookmark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNew users who opt out of subscribing will only be able to take \u2018read-only\u2019 actions, such as: read posts, watch videos, and follow accounts,\u201d X said in the post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun rolling out a US$1 annual charge to new users in New Zealand and the Philippines in a move the service owned by Elon Musk says is aimed at combating bots. The decision to charge new users comes as Musk sees alternative avenues for revenue to advertising, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[55548,112663],"class_list":["post-242534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-elon-musk","tag-x-musk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/musk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242536,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242534\/revisions\/242536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}