People pay to see weather forecasts with cute cartoons (carrot weather). Frankly that’s a far more incomprehensible waste of money, especially considering you can still tweet even without paying, you just lose the badge.
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Twitter Blue Relaunching on Monday With Higher Price on iPhone and Account Review Process
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I used Tweetbot quite a bit. Not having ads was nice, but there were downsides, mostly due to Twitter API limitations. For example, polls aren't supported. If I was looking at older tweets, replies were missing.
It used to be the case. But apple was forced to change this clause because it was anticompetitive. Another example of apple being arrogant and being punished with it, more or less the same thing that will happen with side loading.
That’s not necessarily the case. Many people might prefer to subscribe through Twitter to save money, so although apple charge 15-30% of a higher fee it does on a smaller number of people than it would have been otherwise. If this results in more or less profits it’s hard to judge, but if I were to subscribe to Twitter apple would get zero profits from me as I’d do it form where it’s cheaper.
Absolutely. No account means no ads
why would anybody decide to go another way ?
You will find that the law is above the policies of a store. Apple used to have in their store policies that you couldn’t charge less for the same subscription on your website, and it was forced to remove that clause. This could happen with any other part of their policies. It doesn’t matter it’s their store, they still have to respect the law.
That’s a ridiculous perspective. You can be successful even if you didn’t invent a product but just managed to make it successful. Or are you suggesting that Steve jobs wasn’t successful because he didn’t invent computer or smartphones, as they already existed well before he put one on the market?
There is no law that says Apple can’t charge a commission. There is unlikely to ever be a law that prevents it as that effectively nationalises the App Store, which is clearly absurd. You can’t force a company to sell a product, service or license for nothing.
Like every social thing, it depends on the people you follow.
I have no followers, I don't tweet, I am just following 120 people, mostly publishers, journals, academic writers who post inside studies in my scientific and work field.
Can't find any other social network which has this kind of academic public.
That said, I would never pay for this verification thing, like the majority of users who use twitter as a feed.
I have no followers, I don't tweet, I am just following 120 people, mostly publishers, journals, academic writers who post inside studies in my scientific and work field.
Can't find any other social network which has this kind of academic public.
That said, I would never pay for this verification thing, like the majority of users who use twitter as a feed.
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When Musk has a paypal (one assumes this includes venmo btw)/prime/amazon’s shipping and warehousing infrastructure to make prime work/amazon’s compute platform to make prime work/etc mega corp backing that twitter blue membership let’s talk, but that costs a helluva lot more than $44B. Until then this is just kermit flailing.
CEO Qelon is going nuts on his own account as we speak and there will be no moderation for him. I don’t know how any civilised culture can tolerate billionaires abusing their wealth like this to deliberately harm society and threaten individuals.
that price can even gets lower if we remove government taxes.
False. Prices never fall with tax cuts or commission cuts. Service and subscription companies will always keep pricing the same and inevitably increase them.
I think the number 1 feature missing from Twitter, is the ability to mute accounts for specific periods (like Tweetbot). Currently you can only mute accounts forever or not mute them at all.
Twitter is an excellent "town square" but it is highly infected with Bot accounts that just stir dissent. Would you rather "debate" with a real person or a bot? The bots are what have made the platform so toxic. They are easy to spot because they follow hundreds of people but typically only have 5-7 followers. I left Twitter years ago with over 1000 followers (which is a drop in the bucket), and that's what gives your account some level of legitimacy that the owner is a real person. Personally, I love debate and enjoy twitter, so paying $8 to know the accounts I'm talking to are real people and be included in the conversation because I've been verified.... that seems worth it to me. Up until now you had to be a celebrity or public figure (an elite) to get "verified".... now we're all on equal footing.