Elon Musk mentioned on Tuesday Twitter Inc will all the time be free for informal customers however could cost a slight payment for industrial and authorities customers, because the billionaire entrepreneur tries to spice up the social media platform’s attain from “niche” to most Americans.

“Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users,” Musk mentioned in a tweet.

Twitter declined to remark when contacted by Reuters.

Tesla chief Musk has been suggesting a raft of modifications to Twitter since final month. After including the corporate to his cart just lately, Musk mentioned he needed to reinforce the platform with new options, make the algorithms open supply to extend belief, defeat spam bots, and authenticate all people.

Last month, even earlier than reaching a cope with Twitter, Musk had instructed few modifications to the Twitter Blue premium subscription service, together with slashing its value.

Earlier this week on the annual Met Gala in New York on Monday, Musk additionally mentioned he would make Twitter clear about how tweets are promoted or demoted and needed its software program to be publicly obtainable for critique.

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