Musk Suggests ‘Slight Cost’ for Twitter Commercial Users

Twitter will always remain free for “casual users” but government and commercial users may see a “slight cost” to stay on the social media platform, the company’s would-be owner Elon Musk said in a tweet Tuesday.

Musk, whose bid to purchase Twitter Inc. for $44 billion and take the company private was accepted by Twitter’s board last week, pitched bankers on the idea of new business models for the service during conversations last month to line up financing for the deal. The social network currently makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising.