X Moves X Pro Behind $40/Month Premium+ Paywall With No Notice to Users - MacRumors
Skip to Content

X Moves X Pro Behind $40/Month Premium+ Paywall With No Notice to Users

Social network X is now limiting X Pro access to customers who subscribe to the X Premium+ plan, which is priced at $40 per month (or $33/month when paid annually). X Pro is a multi-column web interface for managing multiple feeds and lists.

x pro premium plus
X Pro was known as TweetDeck before Elon Musk bought Twitter, and it was free to use. Before March 26, X subscribers with the standard $8/month Premium plan were able to use X Pro, and now X is requiring a plan that's 5x more expensive.

No notice was provided to X Pro users about the change and access was suddenly cut off, leading to multiple complaints on the social network. On its website, X says features included in Premium "are subject to change at any time as we continue to improve the service." The X Help center clearly states that access to X Pro is now limited to the Premium+ tier.

X has three subscription tiers: Basic for $3/month or $32/year, Premium for $8/month or $84/year, and Premium+ for $40/month or $395/year. Basic still includes ads, Premium has half the number of ads, and Premium+ has no ads except for sponsored content. Paid plans provide vanity blue checkmarks that used to serve as an actual account verification method prior to Musk's takeover.

Other premium features include expanded post reach, post editing, longer post length, and longer video uploads.

Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.

Popular Stories

iphone 16e usb c feature

Apple Begins Selling a $419 iPhone

Monday July 6, 2026 6:29 am PDT by
Apple recently added the iPhone 16e to its refurbished store, with U.S. pricing starting as low as $419 for a model with 128GB of storage. Originally released in February 2025, the iPhone 16e is a lower-end device with a 6.1-inch OLED display, an A18 chip with 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence support, a single 48-megapixel rear camera, a 12-megapixel front camera, a USB-C port, an Action...
iphone 17 ceramic shield

iPhone 18 With 9GB RAM Still Won't Support Two New iOS 27 Features

Friday July 3, 2026 12:10 pm PDT by
The lower-end iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will be equipped with 9GB of RAM, up from 8GB in the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17e, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a social media post, Kuo said the 1GB increase in RAM will ensure that Apple Intelligence features continue to run smoothly on the pair of devices. The higher-end iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and foldable "iPhone Ultra...
iPhone X 2022 Upload

'iPhone Ultra' Likely to 'Repeat the iPhone X Story' With Delayed Launch

Sunday July 5, 2026 10:28 am PDT by
Apple will likely "repeat the iPhone X story" by unveiling its foldable iPhone at the same time as the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, but starting foldable iPhone pre-orders at a later date, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo today said manufacturing challenges have limited early production of the foldable iPhone, which will reportedly be named iPhone Ultra. As a result, he...

Top Rated Comments

15 weeks ago
Amazing how stubborn the general population is. Bluesky is basically twitter from 8-10 years ago and barely anyone uses it. People actually pay for X which is laughable.
Score: 40 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Xenomorph Avatar
15 weeks ago
I started using Twitter in 2008 and would never pay for the garbage the platform has become.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
15 weeks ago
Stop calling it X and call it twitter. It drives Felon nuts.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Starfia Avatar
15 weeks ago

Paid plans provide vanity blue checkmarks that used to serve as an actual account verification method prior to Musk's takeover.
(A nod to Juli for the clear phrasing.)
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
breather Avatar
15 weeks ago

Amazing how stubborn the general population is. Bluesky is basically twitter from 8-10 years ago and barely anyone uses it. People actually pay for X which is laughable.
43m users on BS
Around 600m on X, but that number fluctuates and is probably not very trustworthy.

paying for x…. 🤣
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarlJ Avatar
15 weeks ago

Around 600m on X, but that number fluctuates and is probably not very trustworthy.
600m accounts on X, likely a noticeable portion are not exactly active (I still have one, have not tweeted/favorited/etc. in many years, look at it once in a blue moon to search for something - they make looking at another account's chronological post history difficult without being logged in), and a much larger portion of that total is bots and "definitely your super patriotic US neighbors" who oddly seem to be posting from Russia or China or similar IP addresses. I'd be a bit surprised if the active, engaged population on Twitter (who weren't just reading swill from those misinformation accounts) was even a tenth of that 600 million.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)