Twitter To Charge by the Character
SAN FRANCISCO—It appears as though the lack of exposure in the For you feed and the inability to participate in Twitter polls aren't the only unpleasant surprises in store for those Twitter users who have rejected the Twitter Blue subscription model. Starting April 15th, all Twitter users who are not currently Twitter Blue subscribers will have to pay for each tweet. "The pricing plan is quite reasonable," Elon Musk said in a recent press conference, "starting at two cents". The tech mogul and owner of Twitter went on to explain that the first character in a tweet will be billed at two cents, the second character four cents, the third character eight cents, and so on, with each character costing twice the price of the previous character. After a minute of pounding furiously on her iPhone calculator app, a reporter for Reuters pointed out that a 280-character tweet, the current limit for those who are not Twitter Blue subscribers, would be billed a price that