Billionaire businessman Elon Musk held an event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night. The main purpose of the live broadcast, which was broadcast to the whole world through various channels, was to benefit from the opportunities of artificial intelligence while protecting against the potential risks that technology may cause. However, talk turned to X (Twitter), which Elon Musk bought for 44 billion dollars. Unfortunately, Elon Musk’s statements caused a stir.
The world’s biggest news sources, such as BBC, Bloomberg and CNBC, presented the statement made by Elon Musk with an approach such as “Twitter will be paid for everyone.” As such, these statements became a hot topic. However, Elon Musk did not actually say that the platform would be paid for everyone. What Musk was really talking about was how to fight Twitter bots…
Here are the shares made by popular news sources:
When we look at the news sources, we see that it is generally mentioned that X may become paid. But the truth is not quite like that. Elon Musk does not say anything at the meeting in question about whether they will take money from everyone who uses X or that they plan to take money. According to Musk, taking even one-tenth of a penny from a user can prevent huge bot armies. In other words, Musk does not say that they plan to take money, but that they can block bots more successfully if they receive money.
Elon Musk’s statement is as follows:
As you can clearly see in the statement above, what Musk really means is that even small amounts such as 1.2 cents can be used as a cost-increasing measure for bots that number in the millions. Additionally, requiring a separate credit card for each bot account is seen as a method that will reduce the number of bots and make them easier to detect.
In summary; Even if Elon Musk implements the method explained above, we may encounter pricing such as 1 cent, 10 cents, etc., which will not bother any of us. Of course, this application brings to mind another question: How will Twitter, which is subject to cyber attacks every minute, securely store the credit card information of hundreds of millions of users?
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