Elon Musk has announced he will likely soon charge people to use the social media platform Twitter, officially known as X. 

The billionaire bought Twitter for $44 billion last year and introduced a number of sweeping changes. 

The blue tick system to verify prominent users was binned and replaced with a premium subscription service where people pay €9.84 a month for an account that includes the marker. 

In a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Musk talked about his desire to crack down on fake accounts. 

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"We're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system," he said.

He added it would be the platform’s “only defence against vast armies of bots.”

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