Elon Musk Announces Free X Premium Subscription for All Users: Read His Statement Here
Elon Musk seems to have woken up from the right side of his bed on Thursday, sharing good news for all X users. Musk has announced a new way to help more people try the X Premium and X Premium+ packages.
X Premium is available on a monthly/yearly basis which offers you benefits such as a verified account, edit button, long posts and articles, and more. Most paid subscribers have used these features so far, but soon free X users with a certain number of followers will also be able to access the service, also for free.
Going forward, all accounts with over 2500 verified subscriber followers will get Premium features for free and accounts with over 5000 will get Premium+ for free— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2024
Musk claims that all X users with 2,500 verified subscriber followers will get X Premium for free, and if you have 5,000, Musk will give you access to X Premium+, which will also let you try out the Grok AI chatbot along with other Premium – properties. Some might say that 2,500 blue tick subscribers might not be easily achievable, which explains why Musk is so generous in the first place.
It’s also possible that X Premium and Premium+ won’t get enough traction and subscriber base that Musk and Co. would have liked, so introducing new criteria to offer the service to more people makes the subscription base look much stronger. .
The way Musk mentioned the details has people confused, especially since the wording isn’t exactly clear when he says he confirmed the subscriber followers in the message.
Elon Musk bought Twitter and got into X over a year ago, and somehow the value of the platform has fallen even further since then. However, X has also introduced some new features such as voice/video calling, a video version of Spaces, support for article-length content, and even payments are on the cards for the platform.
Musk had previously talked about charging a minimum fee of $1 to get everyone to use X to grow the platform and business, but the new update suggests he wants to grow the premium subscriber case first and then resort to other changes.