Elon is either the dumbest person on the planet or he is being blackmailed to destroy Twitter. Nothing about this is rational.
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Elon buying twitter is not catastrophic. Calm down and go back to complaining about Apple.
This is 100% accurate
I am just waiting for him to shut down the API for 3rd party apps all together. Once I can’t use Tweetbot anymore, I am out!
I need to rejoin Twitter so I can rage quit in a week or two.
Everyone already thinks that about blue checks. There’s a reason the term is used pejoratively.
He's running on adrenaline, he is enjoying being in control currently.
Do you not believe that some people are more important/trustworthy than others when it comes to disseminating factual information? Literally any troll can now spoof someone for $8/mo
If the checkmark was only going to those who deserved it, it'd be one thing. But it went to a lot of no-names as well due to Twitter's secret system for handing them out. It was pointless/worthless before and will be even more so now.
I wonder if Apple will pay $8 a month to keep their checkmark.
Or will paying the money now make you considered an Elon supporter and therefore evil?
The first thing that Twitter should’ve done is to have checkmarks for elected officials and checkmarks for official government accounts of different colors. There’s a difference of expectations between what I expect to read from my municipality’s account and what I expect to read from Stephen King.
I have to agree.
Years ago when I was a late teen (it was the beginning of the social media explosion) it was so cool having all this tech for free...
But hafter having seen the amount of aggressive data collection companies indulge in, I'd now rather pay for a service if it means having slightly more privacy.
Then there are companies like Adobe that charge you a pretty penny and still harvest loads of data.
This is really sending some people off their rockers. It's entertaining how easy it is for Elon to troll those outraged; AOC's overpriced sweatshirt and how it's the price of a $8 starbucks.
Well, he was forced to follow through on the deal, so at some point he realized how dumb it was to purchase an unprofitable social media site for $44 billion. Maybe he thought from the start that he could just screw Twitter investors because he's used to getting away with screwing randos.
This is a great idea. It'd be nice if that was done now. Maybe Elon can waive the fee for government officials and give them their own special color. Make the celebs pay for it though.
This guy should be a makeup artist considering how he is trying to put lipstick on a pig.
Yeah sure he is. Can call him a lot of a lot of things, but dumb isn't one of them.
All is fair in love and war. Twitter needs to be profitable, let's be honest. I rather an upfront cost of $8 per month than the entire platform become ad-infested like YouTube has become. It an honest exchange—you pay this, you get this. He has also said this will help raise funds to pay Twitter content creators—something Twitter has never done. Besides, he's offering additional perks for paying subscribers such as long form video and pushes in the algorithm—this will help deal with many of the bots (not all), of which Twitter has a lot (off topic junk, spam and crypto scams). I won't be paying because Twitter is not important enough to me regarding what I tweet. I mostly read the tweets of those I follow. But I can understand needing to charge this kind of fee if this short-form messaging platform is to survive and not grow into an ad-ridden behemoth. Something that would ruin the Twitter experience. Elon is smart and will pivot as needed.
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Disagree. If you don’t want people to read something don’t post it in the first place. But government/politicians certainly shouldn’t be allowed to delete anything.