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This. If I’m paying $8 a month I don’t want to see any ads at all. Twitter can shove it. Same goes for any service I’m paying for.
What are you rambling on about.
+ before these changes only certain “people” had this legitimate stature. This was unfair. As simple as that. It isn’t really hard to understand. Now anyone can be verified as a real human being. Just paying money won’t get you verified. More verified people on ANY platform is a good thing.
+ Paying 8 bucks will get your MORE features. It isn’t any different to paying for any service online. You don’t just pay to get an icon next to your name. So please stop repeating this non sense about icons.
+ why would one want to PAY to post online? I don’t know man. Why would you subscribe and pay monthly to Tweetbot? Tweetbot does exactly this. Twitter like any piece of software, isn’t a charity. You can pay to do certain things and use it for free to do others.
+ the fact that you use the word “branded people” means you don’t use Twitter and don’t really get why these changes are happening.
I have nothing for or against Twitter, but I’ll be glad if it goes into the background and out of the news cycle. Social Media and the internet are incredible tools, but we are definitely the lab rats. This level of engagement and stimuli is brand new and accelerating at an incredible pace. The human mind wasn’t meant for this level of instant gratification and options. It’s like the opposite of being in solitary confinement.
Anyways, it’s hard for me to tell how brilliant or not Musk is, and whether this is a legitimate feeling-out process for him, is it all show, some combo of both…
He’s a billionaire and I’m not, so maybe this is some brilliant strategy. Or maybe he doesn’t care at all. Who the hell knows.
Anyways, it’s hard for me to tell how brilliant or not Musk is, and whether this is a legitimate feeling-out process for him, is it all show, some combo of both…
He’s a billionaire and I’m not, so maybe this is some brilliant strategy. Or maybe he doesn’t care at all. Who the hell knows.
LOL Spotify oh sure the company that doesn't like Japanese users. and still, spam us with ads with only 15 hours of ads-filled free service. they are the worse.
well at the least,......... after some people comment on Twitter you still need a shower after reading the crap feast people post.
People whose jobs reply on Twitter will pay as a business expense no problem, I just don’t think there are enough of them for Elon’s investors to get their money back.
Has anyone seen this proposed twitter replacement from the waze guy?
Edit… Post.news
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Edit… Post.news
Ex-Waze CEO trying to replicate early Twitter and social media vibes with 'Post'
Mastodon has emerged as the most recognizable Twitter alternative as of late. Former Waze CEO Noam Bardin is now trying with Post to...
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With the personal attacks and lies Qelon is doing every day the whole thing is going to fall apart and become an international laughing stock.
So here is your subscription fee Qelon
So here is your subscription fee Qelon
Odd, twitter clearly was hard right, hard hard right……
it is clear as day now, the emails have been shown the light of day on all this.
they were not the truth, in any way shape or form, it was hard right propaganda, and limited free speech, based on hard right thought.
the right are now anti free speech.
man you can not make this stuff up.
I personally could care less. Do not use Twitter, never will, but it is constantly in the news. And part of life.
the hard right lost a tool used to manipulate the masses. Many posts above, show that clearly.
musk is not hard right nor left. But because he does not just blindly follow the right, gets him All the
typical comments like the ones above.
I think people really need to grow up, learn to have discourse, and remain civil.
as most independents do. The childish hard left or right is not the way forward.
it is a way of division, and only shows a person with a clear lack of self control, and critical thinking skills.
just saying
it is clear as day now, the emails have been shown the light of day on all this.
they were not the truth, in any way shape or form, it was hard right propaganda, and limited free speech, based on hard right thought.
the right are now anti free speech.
man you can not make this stuff up.
I personally could care less. Do not use Twitter, never will, but it is constantly in the news. And part of life.
the hard right lost a tool used to manipulate the masses. Many posts above, show that clearly.
musk is not hard right nor left. But because he does not just blindly follow the right, gets him All the
typical comments like the ones above.
I think people really need to grow up, learn to have discourse, and remain civil.
as most independents do. The childish hard left or right is not the way forward.
it is a way of division, and only shows a person with a clear lack of self control, and critical thinking skills.
just saying
Pretty much every gas station does this with cash/credit, this isnt a new concept, and there’s a reason it’s not common in a lot of industries: it can sometimes backfire spectaculaly when people decide they like their marketplace over your product at the new price. People are unlikely to shift to android, or even yell at Apple, for a price increase on paying twitter to give you a checkmark.
Well they fired everyone who knew how to do it.
Twitter is in the ad business. The $8 is not to turn a profit, it's to get people to verify their accounts and attach a credit card for other potential payments down the road. So in the future Twitter will have PayPal-like and Amazon-like features built in and people will be able to buy with one click from trusted brands directly in Twitter, as Musk has stated.
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Remember Apple only allows prices that end in .99, so $11 is probably actually $10.99.
Well like I said... good luck to Elon.
Twitter hasn't exactly had the greatest reputation (and it's even worse now)
I can't imagine there are gonna be enough people paying a monthly fee and buying stuff for turn Twitter around.
It'll be fun to watch, that's for sure!
I actually preferred using a web browser (before I stopped Twittering sometime ago). The (official) Mac Twitter client is barf. It actually wasted a ton of space. Also I hated how when you clicked ANY video or image, the Twit client would forcibly open an image/video popup. That was stupid.
I never tried 3rd-party clients tho.
Using Safari was a sufficiently acceptable GUI / user interface.
Elmo is going to force ads on all Twitterers, free or paid. That's the only way Elmo can repay $26 billion of borrowed capital to three of the world's largest banks and the Saudi royal family.
If the Saudi Crown Prince can't get his investment money back, he might just Kashoggi Elmo. 🔪🔪🔪
This is fairly common - Spotify has done this for years, for example.
The only odd thing here, if any, is that Spotify does this because they have real fixed costs they have to cover in terms of media licensing. The $8 per month fee was almost certainly chosen because they didn't think people would be willing to pay more than $100/year. Yet on iOS they will be advertising $130+/year for Blue.
Slight of hand businesses? Only Pay Pal was truly successful. The rest are a conglomeration of already existing ideas, some dating back decades, but repackaged as Musk originals. Its an embarrassment to use the name of Tesla, a great inventor. Hypertube = Vactrain (1799). EVs = 1832 (Robert Anderson). Even the battery systems are not Musk's they are Panasonic's. Where Elon has been successful is creaming idiot politicians into forcing other real manufacturers to pay Musk, and gaining billions of dollars in grants/subsidies, then going off to China to cream the same thing there. So Bernie Madoff must have been a successful businessman too?
First off, you need a new phrase; that one is getting a bit tired.
Second, I think about Twitter exactly none outside of it coming through my news feed.
Not quite; it was a heavily leveraged buyout. In addition to 8 billion he got from other investors and 4 billion he already owned, twitter took on 13 billion in debt. My guess is the margin loan is a lot closer to $20 billion.
Twitter needs $1 bil/year just to pay off the interest on all that debt. That is 10 million people (~2% of the total active user base, including bots) upgrading to $100/year paid accounts. I don't see it happening - people are too cheap even if they do figure out some sort of major positive benefit, and people will leave if the screws are tightened such that they have to pay to play.
It is really weird, because the people who get the most value are brands, and he seems to be actively discouraging them from advertising or even keeping their twitter accounts active through verified account shenanigans, inviting back previously banned accounts, and generally not responding to (legally mandated) content moderation requirements. These brands (like Apple) are most certainly the ones he SHOULD be selling to for the best odds of getting his money back out - and I don't just mean trying to get them to pay for promoted ad placement.