{"id":582708,"date":"2022-05-04T06:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=582708"},"modified":"2022-05-04T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T05:04:15","slug":"musk-suggests-slight-cost-for-twitter-commercial-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/582708\/musk-suggests-slight-cost-for-twitter-commercial-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk suggests \u2018slight cost\u2019 for Twitter commercial users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will always remain free for \u201ccasual users\u201d but government and commercial users may see a \u201cslight cost\u201d to stay on the social media platform, the company\u2019s would-be owner Elon Musk said in a tweet Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, whose bid to purchase Twitter Inc. for $44 billion and take the company private was accepted by Twitter\u2019s board last week, pitched bankers on the idea of new business models for the service during conversations last month to line up financing for the deal. The social network currently makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial\/government users<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1521630589710872576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company recently tried to expand into other areas, including subscriptions, though that business line is still very small. Twitter executives had discussed various subscription products for years before the company last summer unveiled its $2.99 monthly subscription service, called Twitter Blue.<\/p>\n<p>But Twitter Blue is targeted toward the service\u2019s most dedicated users and not business or government accounts, though some aspects of the Twitter Blue service &#8211; like the ability to post longer videos &#8211; might appeal primarily to commercial accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter already sells other products targeted at commercial users, including access to the Twitter API for businesses interested in marketing or brand analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has told potential investors that he could return Twitter to the public markets as soon as three years after buying it, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/582166\/buffett-says-he-wouldnt-buy-all-the-bitcoin-in-the-world-for-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffett says he wouldn\u2019t buy \u2018all the bitcoin in the world\u2019 for $25<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will always remain free for \u201ccasual users\u201d but government and commercial users may see a \u201cslight cost\u201d to stay on the social media platform, the company\u2019s would-be owner Elon Musk said in a tweet Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":279227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,93],"class_list":["post-582708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582714,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582708\/revisions\/582714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}