{"id":1075933,"date":"2022-05-04T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/commercial-govt-users-to-pay-for-twitter-says-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:17:09","slug":"commercial-govt-users-to-pay-for-twitter-says-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/commercial-govt-users-to-pay-for-twitter-says-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial, Govt Users To Pay For Twitter, Says Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk, on Wednesday, said Twitter commercial and government users may have to pay to use the micro-blogging platform.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter on Monday, April 25, confirmed the selling of the platform to Musk in a deal valued at $44 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The sale was a dramatic shift for the board, which had originally maneuvered to block Musk from taking the social media network private.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree 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,\u201d Musk said in a joint statement announcing the takeover.<\/p>\n<p>But confirming fears by the majority that his takeover might lead to commercialisation of the social media platform, Musk in a tweet in the early hours of Wednesday, said commercial and government users will pay for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said the micro-blogging site would \u201calways\u201d remain free for casual users.<\/p>\n<p>Justifying his move to commercialise the platform for commercial and government users in a series of tweets, the billionaire entrepreneur said free services led to the downfall of great businesses.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cTwitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial\/government users.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier tweet, Musk said, \u201cUltimately, the downfall of the Freemasons was giving away their stonecutting services for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial\/government users<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk Billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk, on Wednesday, said Twitter commercial and government users may have to pay to use the micro-blogging platform. Twitter on Monday, April 25, confirmed the selling of the platform to Musk in a deal valued at $44 billion. The sale was a dramatic shift for the board, which had originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[558,6004,225,6007,1367,136,2141],"class_list":["post-1075933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-commercial","tag-elon","tag-govt","tag-musk","tag-pay","tag-twitter","tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}