you know what…. I think you’re right…. oh at least people who are saying they aren’t interlinked are incorrect.
Elon is someone who loves attention so that probably explains that he may have purposefully explained what he meant a minute on, so news stations could take the original, out of context quote and dunk on him. Anything for attention for him!
Some people have been telling me that his first quote is unrelated to the second quote, but I believe it is, since in both of them he said it “was the only way he could think of to defend vast armies of bots”
"The single most important reason that we are moving to having a small monthly payment for the use of the X system, is it is the only way I could think of to combat vast armies of bots,"
… so pioritising posts written by by X premium subscribers, we’re actually gonna come out with a lower tier pricing so y’know, we’re wanting it to just be a small amount of money, that this is the (stumbles) it’s a longer discussion but in my view this is the only defense against vast armies of bots.
He says in both statements they are the only defense he could think of to combat bots, so if the statements were different, he would know 2 proposed defenses to combat bots, not 1. This is why I think that the 2 statements are interlinked with eachother and he was talking about a lower priced, premimum subscription all along, and that he was originally unclear.
Lads, I dislike Elon just as much as the next wasteof user, but this isn’t true.
People are just misinterpreting his comment. He just said that there may be a new tier of Twitter preminum that costs less.
Source: https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1703806204894498966 (this is the literal interview he did which people are saying he said this) Yes, the first quote on 34:40 seems to support @imadeanaccount’s claim, but if you go on (at about 35:30) he then seems to clarify he’s referring to a new, lower priced subscription.
Here is the quote:
… so pioritising posts written by by X premium subscribers, we’re actually gonna come out with a lower tier pricing so y’know, we’re wanting it to just be a small amount of money, that this is the (stumbles) it’s a longer discussion but in my view this is the only defense against vast armies of bots.
The reasoning that this proposed new lower tier of premium may happen is to combat bots, which was also mentioned in the original quote that people are alarmed over (people saying this quote is saying about putting twitter behind a paywall)
"The single most important reason that we are moving to having a small monthly payment for the use of the X system, is it is the only way I could think of to combat vast armies of bots,"
The reasonings correlating on both the quotes makes me believe he was originally talking about a lower, cheaper tier all along, and that he was just unclear.