Elon Musk already introduced that AI chatbot Grok can be accessible for Premium in addition to Premium+ members later this week, and now he is making extra tweaks to X’s paid tiers.

Or, extra particularly, he is permitting some X customers the identical advantages as these which might be paying.

“Going ahead, all X accounts with over 2500 verified subscriber followers will get Premium options without spending a dime and accounts with over 5000 will get Premium+ without spending a dime,” posted Musk on Wednesday.

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Musk seems to be speaking about accounts who’ve a sure variety of paid subscribers, which is a characteristic that permits customers to entry “bonus content material” from creators they observe on X. Subscriptions value a set quantity every month (subscribing to Musk’s account will set you again $3.96 per 30 days, for example), with the creators choosing the worth level. It is mainly X’s try and compete with Patreon.

The issue? Even X’s largest accounts do not actually have that many subscriptions. Musk himself, who has virtually 179 million followers, solely has a measly 149 subscribers on the time of writing.

It is doable, after all, that Musk is not truly referring to subscriptions, and easily means verified followers. Mashable reached out to X however acquired the same old “busy now, please verify again later” automated response.