Elon Musk would very, very much like you to pay for X Premium. After all, he’s only the richest man in the world, how’s he supposed to keep the lights on and the servers running if you’re not throwing $84 a year his way?
Advertising revenue? C’mon buddy, you know that all the major advertisers turned tail and ran after Musk opened the Nazi incel floodgates. X ads are now a mixture of AI and crypto scams – and they don’t pay the bills!
Now Musk’s latest nudge towards getting users to pay for X Premium has appeared. And, frankly, it’s less a nudge and more of a firm shove while surreptitiously picking your pocket. Yup, without telling anyone, unverified users on X must live under a set of strict new rules restricting how much you can post:
X/Twitter free users now have a daily limit of 50 posts, including tweets, reposts, and quote posts, plus 200 replies pic.twitter.com/1FCIBE0Ivt
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) May 17, 2026
As confirmed by @DailyLoud, this means you have a daily limit of 50 posts (which includes posts, reposts and quote posts) and 200 replies. Any seasoned X users will know that you can burn through those in a couple of hours, and people aren’t happy, with one succinctly pointing out that “The ‘Everything App’ slowly becoming the ‘Nothing App’.”
Free speech? Not on Musk’s watch
This also seems to make Musk’s “free speech” stance somewhat hypocritical, as it’s literally not “free” speech if you have to pay to post: “Free speech isn’t free anymore. Elon musk scammed the world now he is offering limited free speech.“
Others theorize that this is going to result in yet another X exodus, presumably to competitors like Threads and Bluesky:
That’s more than dumb. That’s absolutely straight up retarded like he do realize Bluesky is a thing
— $ (@ace23324) May 18, 2026
These days, using X is generally a miserable and soul-crushing experience. If you see something vaguely interesting, you’ll have to scroll through endless bot replies before you get to a human being. Even then, said human being is almost guaranteed to be one of the worst people you could ever possibly meet.
Beyond that, it’s a cesspool of open racism, literal unashamed Nazism and Hitler worship, zero-effort engagement ragebait trolling, and AI-generated memes. And yet – incredibly – it’s still somehow preferable to the humorless Bluesky, which is terminally infested with deeply cringe millennials.
And Threads? They may as well put a sign up on the login page: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
But, frankly, Elon Musk could be holding me at literal gunpoint, and I still wouldn’t give him a cent. Restrict unverified users all you want, I’ll be in the cold, cold ground before I ever get the blue checkmark of shame!
Published: May 18, 2026 05:05 am