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Elon Musk confirms X accounts with certain subscriber levels will get Premium bonuses

It might not be as great as it sounds, though.
By Matthews Martins on 
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Elon Musk already announced that AI chatbot Grok would be available for Premium as well as Premium+ members later this week, and now he's making more tweaks to X's paid tiers.

Or, more specifically, he's allowing some X users the same benefits as those that are paying.

"Going forward, all X accounts with over 2500 verified subscriber followers will get Premium features for free and accounts with over 5000 will get Premium+ for free," posted Musk on Wednesday.

Musk appears to be talking about accounts who have a certain number of paid subscribers, which is a feature that enables users to access "bonus content" from creators they follow on X. Subscriptions cost a set amount each month (subscribing to Musk's account will set you back $3.96 per month, for instance), with the creators picking the price point. It's basically X's attempt to compete with Patreon.

The problem? Even X's biggest accounts don't really have that many subscriptions. Musk himself, who has almost 179 million followers, only has a measly 149 subscribers at the time of writing.

It's possible, of course, that Musk isn't actually referring to subscriptions, and simply means verified followers. Mashable reached out to X but received the usual "busy now, please check back later" automated response.

Topics  Twitter

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  1. Replies
    1. Hello fans, I'm Elon musk. If you're truly a big fan of mine can I get a Yes and be careful of the imposters here using my profile as you all can see, I created this account to investigate all the fake profiles here. I got a lot of report from different fans which I'm
      working on, I'm with my lawyer and I have communicated with Mark express your true feeling for me by sending me a direct massage on telegram application through the link below you might be lucky to get a response back from me immediately šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡

      https://t.me/Elonmusk463

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    2. click the link to send a direct message

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  2. A lot of news of decreasing user numbers. This will be a huge incentive for people to make tons of fake accounts

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  3. its hard to get a premium bj i heardjts wife give great bjs

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    1. Hello fans, I'm Elon musk. If you're truly a big fan of mine can I get a Yes and be careful of the imposters here using my profile as you all can see, I created this account to investigate all the fake profiles here. I got a lot of report from different fans which I'm
      working on, I'm with my lawyer and I have communicated with Mark express your true feeling for me by sending me a direct massage on telegram application through the link below you might be lucky to get a response back from me immediately šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡

      https://t.me/Elonmusk463

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  4. In the eyes of his fans, Elon Musk will always be a social media genius šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚

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  5. He means snake oil and snake oil plus for free

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    1. Iā€™m here because I need to call on the attention of all ELON MUSK fans to be careful of these imposters claiming to be him.
      Elon Musk just created a new page where he replies all heā€™s fans on Facebook why donā€™t you click the link and message him over there

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  6. Someone did the math and found out this did was actually available for the total of 8 people. 8 whole people have +2500 verified accounts following them and can now save $20.

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    1. Iā€™m here because I need to call on the attention of all ELON MUSK fans to be careful of these imposters claiming to be him.
      Elon Musk just created a new page where he replies all heā€™s fans on Facebook why donā€™t you click the link and message him over there

      šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡
      󱢏http://t.me/ElonMusk_Privacy0

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    2. šŸ™„šŸ¤” Do you swallow for him too šŸ¤·

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  7. Is this verified followers or subscribers (as in subscriptions)?

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  8. This is amazing! šŸ¤©

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  9. Another great move by XšŸ‘šŸ»šŸ‘šŸ»

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  10. Does this mean we can get our Dev API back so we can keep pushing independent developers?

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    1. ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø

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    2. Oh gosh please, it's horrible for devs now. All visibility is dead

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  11. Smart move! premium + is absolutely worth it

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  12. Pretty sure he means verified paying followers. Not paying subscribers.

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  13. Iā€™m hoping that the subscriber allowance system is getting fixed? Iā€™ve been waiting for over a year and do contribute heavily to X platform

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  14. Wow, thatā€™s really awesome! I hope it encourages people to use X as the town square and produce quality content.

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  15. Nice. Will we able to pull the data to see if we qualify or how close we are?

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  16. What does ā€œverified subscriber followersā€ mean?

    And does this have to do with the subscriptions feature i applied for over a year ago but am still pending approval for?

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    1. Half of the blue checks are AI now. Shame.

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  17. Bro I literally just paid my annual fee šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€

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  18. Awesome but šŸ¤”

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  19. I need more subscribers but this is cool none the less!

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  20. Except for Ken Griffin's

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    1. This man is playing with some very hot fire šŸ”„

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  21. Wow, this is a huge move!

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  22. amazing šŸ‘šŸ»

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  23. This requires a bit of clarification. What exactly is a "verified subscriber"? Is that just someone with a Blue Checkmark?

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    1. I believe it only counts if the verified follower is subscribed to X.

      Note: Doesnā€™t have to have visible blue check as that is an open to be shown or not

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  24. Ok, work on that šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ˜‚

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  25. Thatā€™s kind of hard for smaller, shadow banned accounts.

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  26. There goes the neighborhood.

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  27. Ok. So is this subscribers or followers?

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    1. Do you have that many? Personally I'd think it'd be a nightmare to have that many followers. I don't even know how many I have but I doubt it's more than a couple of dozen, if that. I've never cared about followers. I'm glad I don't because I doubt I have any. Lol

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  28. Ah, more free stuff for people who don't really need free stuff...

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  29. Iā€™ll read through to understand what this means better as Iā€™m a little confused in regards to the different levels. And what if you are already paying for a yearā€™s subscription at a time? Stuff like that.

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  30. I'm gonna need all the verified people to follow Me. Thanks.

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  31. Cool can i have a million dollars for free?

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  32. Next level growth and retention strategy šŸ‘šŸ¼

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  33. Oh well.....probably not going to make it

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  34. Damn but I paid for the year already? Will I get refunded?

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  35. That is awesome. I almost leave x. Now I feel like coming back

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  36. Subscriber followers? What is that

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  37. Must be an impossibility.

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