Wish to absolutely do away with adverts on X? Now, there is a method (kind of), however it’ll price you.
The corporate’s official account simply introduced that its Premium+ subscription tier is now “fully ad-free.”
Premium+ prices $20 per thirty days or $210 per 12 months, and it comes with quite a few perks, together with the power to write down rich-text articles on X, in addition to the most important reply enhance, which implies you get the most important potential enhance on your replies. It additionally consists of all the things you get within the cheaper, Primary and Premium tiers, together with stuff like checkmark and early entry to X’s AI assistant Grok.
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When the corporate launched the Premium+ tier in October 2023, it (maddeningly) didn’t include the power to completely do away with adverts, which have been solely gone from the For You and Following timelines. Now, adverts ought to be fully gone, although it as soon as once more comes with a small caveat: In line with X, customers will nonetheless see “occasional branded content in less common areas.”
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Occasional branded content material apart, that is now the tier to get for those who love X, hate adverts, and are prepared to pay the worth for Premium+.
For these customers who don’t love adverts however do not hate all of them that a lot, there’s nonetheless the common, $10 per thirty days Premium subscription tier, which is able to scale back the quantity of adverts you see within the For You and Following timelines by half.
Elon Musk as soon as famously tweeted that he hates promoting, so it is good to see that those that share his disdain for adverts can have an (nearly) ad-free expertise on Twitter. However Musk’s relationship with promoting is a sophisticated one. Earlier this week, X sued advertisers claiming that they conspired to withhold billions of {dollars} in promoting income after Musk took over X (then Twitter) in 2022.