Twitter Blue Relaunching on Monday With Higher Price on iPhone and Account Review Process

[Shirasaki]

Oh they charge more on iOS To cover that fee?
Why don’t everyone else also doing that? Charge higher fee on iOS instead of on PC or Mac.
I always say this: user should pay the markup, not the business.
Or Apple will start yelling “eat losses yourself or I’ll kick ur a**”?

 

[insoft.uk]

Apple has no legal right to take a 15% to 30% cut as one can simply use Safari on iOS to pay $8 yet if an app displays that same webpage inside of their app to make it simpler for the user not having to goto safari and back into the app Apple demands a cut that's down right criminal, even if the app takes you out and into the website in safari Apple demands a cut or they ban the app, even tho doing it manually is fine.

 

[1557750]

Save that $11 and get some Taco Bell.

You get diarrhea from both, so why not have it taste good first...

👊😎👍 🌮

 

[neliason]

I'm a proud subscriber. I don't care about ANY of the benefits. I support the platform because I believe in what they are doing.

I subscribed for the same reasons. I’ve wasted more than $8 on completely meaningless things before. The Internet was great at first but censorship has really made it far less interesting.

 

[ghanwani]

Why not just use the web version?

 

[fishkorp]

Apple has no legal right to take a 15% to 30% cut as one can simply use Safari on iOS to pay $8 yet if an app displays that same webpage inside of their app to make it simpler for the user not having to goto safari and back into the app Apple demands a cut that's down right criminal, even if the app takes you out and into the website in safari Apple demands a cut or they ban the app, even tho doing it manually is fine.

No legal right? lol. It’s their store, they can charge what they want. A developer knows the rules and policies. If they want an app in the App Store, they need to follow the rules. It’s like signing a document when you get a job that says you agree to not use the company computer for anything other than work and be shocked when you get fired for watching YouTube all day.

30% is also industry standard. Google, Sony, Microsoft, Steam they all charge it. I don’t see anyone complaining about them.

 

[Abstract]

Wow, free speech is getting expensive!

 

[Kazgarth]

I won't give them even a single cent.

 

[scrapesleon]

Why would anyone pay to tweet? I just don’t get it.

You must not know social media addiction and the feeling to be some upper part of society

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Is there a Twitter option block anyone that has a blue checkmark? Then I could filter out the idiots.

Just kidding. I don't have an account on that garbage site; deleted it three or four years ago.

 

[Johnny907]

So sign up on the website instead of through the app.

For more solutions to non-issues like this, Like, Follow and Subscribe!

 

[Johnny907]

Is there a Twitter option block anyone that has a blue checkmark? Then I could filter out the idiots.

Just kidding. I don't have an account on that garbage site; deleted it three or four years ago.

And yet here it is, living rent free in your head.

 

[hagjohn]

If you are famous or if you have a business, I can see paying this but for normal folk, no, not at all. It would be a total waste of money.

 

[Lioness~]

Wow, free speech is getting expensive!

$8/month speech - it's cheap speech.

 

[Apple$]

Save that $11 and get some Taco Bell.

And it has gut benefits! /s

 

[sir1963nz]

Love this atitude from Musk. More people need to act in this way instead of conforming and accepting things as they are. Apple wants a 30% fee? Well it can take it from its users, not from me

Lets hope he has the same attitude to all those extra features in Tesla cars....

 

[subi257]

So, can we call that a Twitter Tax?

 

[svish]

Too high pricing. Should have been much lower.

 

[subi257]

More so the paid consumers are paying the $44 billion dollar loan back Elon Musk took.

They just want to help him and they would not be seen in a plug-in electric car so they won‘t buy a Tesla.

 

[usmaak]

I am not a fan of Musk, but I do have to agree that the 15% - 30% fee is too high. Apple charges developers > $100 per year (can’t remember how much because I quit development on the App Store a while ago) and then more for subscriptions. Google has a one time fee of like $30 to develop on that platform. I never had any apps with subscriptions on that platform so I don’t know how much they charge over there. Apple makes so much money off the backs of those developing on their platform.

 

[subi257]

You don’t need to pay to tweet. You pay if you want to be “verified”.

Except all verifiers (employees) have been fired

 

[subi257]

Apple has no legal right to take a 15% to 30% cut as one can simply use Safari on iOS to pay $8 yet if an app displays that same webpage inside of their app to make it simpler for the user not having to goto safari and back into the app Apple demands a cut that's down right criminal, even if the app takes you out and into the website in safari Apple demands a cut or they ban the app, even tho doing it manually is fine.

Apple has every right to charge anything they want…..it’s their system. Do you go into a supermarket and say you have no right to charge this price for milk ?

 

[Solomani]

So, can we call that a Twitter Tax?

It's an Elon Tax.

 

[DocMultimedia]

For people that don't like ads in the Twitter app just use Tweetbot (costs a few bucks). Zero ads. There are a few others. The big question of course is will Elon kill third party apps.

I really don't see how anyone could use the Twitter app. I deleted it ages ago.

 

[Krizoitz]

Like him or dislike him, only a fool would bet against one of the most successful businessmen of all time. Hate to disappoint, but Twitter ain't going anywhere.

Only a fool would pay $44 billion for a money losing company and proceed to alienate the prime/only source of revenue (advertisers) so it loses even more money.

Only a bigger fool would praise the first fool for it.