Does X Premium fee cover all my accounts?

September 20, 2023 1:05 PM

You're allowed multiple accounts on X. I did a Premium subscription on my main one, but it looks like they were gonna let me sign up for another $84 (same ph#, etc.) if I clicked the final Subscribe button on my second account. I wanted them to say, "Hey, we see you've already paid for Premium." Maybe they would... Do you have to pay PER ACCOUNT?
posted by noelpratt2nd to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

As far as I can tell, everything is per-account, with no affordances for multiple accounts.

How would they know the two separate accounts belong to the same person?
posted by june_dodecahedron at 2:00 PM on September 20, 2023

It definitely *used* to be a per account thing, many months ago. As fast as Musk likes to break things in the name of changing them, that could have changed. But it seems unlikely he changed it in a way that makes *less* money for him.
posted by Stacey at 2:05 PM on September 20, 2023

A lot of websites don't communicate with themselves in the way you'd think they would so something like a shared phone number wouldn't even register. If they advertised the subscription as paying for multiple accounts of one person, it's worth sending them an email to link your accounts in their system. If they didn't advertise it as a multiple account subscription, chances are good that it's not. I do a lot of subscription purchasing for my job and almost all subscriptions are per account or pay extra for additional licenses.
posted by Eyelash at 2:05 PM on September 20, 2023

I think part of the motivation of making the accounts paid (aside from the obvious profit motivation) is to reduce spam/bot accounts. From this perspective, it wouldn't make sense to allow you to pay only once to have multiple accounts -- spammers would clearly abuse this.
posted by number9dream at 4:03 PM on September 20, 2023

Afaik, accounts are entirely separate and have no connections to each other. You can sign in to multiple accounts at once, but that doesn't mean they're connected. If I gave you my account's username and password you could sign into it in your X app/website alongside all of your own accounts.

So unless they've added something extra that lets you link multiple accounts under one payment account – which sounds like the kind of complicated reengineering that Musk's X would rather not do – I'd bet you can only pay per account.
posted by fabius at 5:50 AM on September 21, 2023

Musk's Twitter does have a way to have many accounts under one subscription. It costs $1000 for the organization and then $50 for each account. It gives you gold checkmarks.

Before Musk took over verified checkmarks were free, a service provided to protect Twitter itself from impersonation lawsuits and to aid the public discourse. The current system has no meaningful identity verification and instead is an upsell for what they call "premium" service.
posted by Nelson at 8:10 AM on September 22, 2023