Founder of Tesla Inc., Elon Musk, who recently acquired microblogging platform, Twitter, has said that Twitter may charge a “slight” fee for commercial and government users.
In a post on his official Twitter handle on Wednesday, he, however, said the microblogging platform would always be free for “casual users”.
“Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users,” he said in the tweet.
“Some revenue is better than none!” he added in a separate tweet.
Twitter recently accepted a buyout offer of $44 billion from Musk, making him the new owner of the platform, subject to regulatory and shareholder approval.
Following the buyout announcement, Musk expressed the desire to enhance the platform with new features.
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” he had said.
“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spambots, and authenticating all humans,” the billionaire added.
He also said at the Met Gala on Monday that his goal was to make Twitter as inclusive as possible and to have as broad a swathe of people on Twitter as possible, “assuming everything gets done.”
