[mrweasel]

It would actually be completely fair to say that X now costs $1 per month to use. You'd have to drop the ads as well, which given their fall out with larger advertisers again would make sense. In some weird sense it would fit with my overall view of Musk, if the advertisers don't like what he's doing, he'll block their access to his platform.

Journalists, consultants and influencers could just expense the cost and get a tax deduction or have their employer pay. Given the value most people claim to get from X/Twitter I don't see why $12 - $20 isn't a reasonable cost.

I'm also not sure if a dollar per month would be enough to keep bots at bay, it's also a little unreasonable to simply outsource your vetting of users to the credit card companies and banks in this manor and I doubt that neither VISA nor MasterCard finds the idea amusing.