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Twitter May Be Planning to Add More Premium Tiers

yustas said:
Space X
Tesla
Solar
Boring
Neuralink
Open AI

When it comes to business, he knows what he's doing, it seems.
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I agree with you on Space X and Tesla. But Solar, as in SolarCity? They've missed the mark and are way behind on their stated goals. In 2019, Tesla said they'd be producing and installing 1,000 per week in 2020. They've only installed a total of 3,000 at last count, or about 21 to 23 per week.

The Boring Company... Where are all these tunnels with magnetically levitating trains that are traveling at hundreds of MPH? Where's the tunnel that's suppose to get people from Washington, DC to New York City in 29 minutes?

Neuralink... I haven't been keeping up. Have they made any progress yet on helping blind people see, paralyzed people walk again, or people control a smartphone with their mind? Too early to make a call on this company.

OpenAI... Musk hasn't had anything to do with them since he left the company in 2018. And there were a bunch of people involved in starting up the company. How can you attribute OpenAI's recent success to Musk?
 
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mjs916 said:
I think X has potential to be a cool app if it pivots away from Twitter.

What I mean is, Twitter should be to X what Instagram is to Facebook. Separate but related.

X should be more though - real name or phone number verified only, integrate payments, shopping, games and services.

Elon said he wanted an “everything app”. X in its current state is simply the charred remains of Twitter with a minuscule amount of greenery poking through. Possibly weeds lol.
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I'm sorry, but this is a hard disagree from me.

Rebranding Twitter as X isn't going to make it the "everything" app Elon desires - and if he wanted to make a separate app... well, he didn't need to buy Twitter to do it.
 
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coolfactor said:
I can see contributing to content creators on YouTube. There's a lot of great content, and the creators deserve to be rewarded for their efforts. I've recently started following food prep videos, and I'm learning so much. That has value.
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I pay for YouTube too - and in periods for different subscriptions and channels as well. YT has a huge variety of contents.
For me, it was initially and still mostly is for the large meditation content it offers, from various channels.
But I keep finding more and more excellent stuff on YT. I like it more and more.
YouTube Music, that are included in YT-subscriptions, also replaced Apple Music as well.

Wouldn’t pay a thing for Twitter. Not today at least. I only use it for searches at times. That’s it.
Personally it’s gone for me, but I can see a business reason for having it.
 
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There is a lesson to be learnt here.

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GMShadow said:
Apple was doomed too, since we’re apparently throwing around irrelevant examples.
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Irrelevent examples? If you're going to make simple statements based on an anecdotal view, it's worth reminding people that the basis for views sometimes sit beside solid analysis.

Was Apple said to be doomed? Maybe. But what did Apple do - brought back the person that held the original vision to steer the ship. It was a gamble that probably shouldn't have paid off but did.

What did Yahoo do? In the face of competing structures they threw themselves towards hundreds of unfocused and pet projects.

There's far more in common with Twitter to Yahoo, Myspace, AOL, Ask Jeeves, Last Minute, Broadcast.com, heck even FTX, than there ever was with Apple.

Apple had more than just IP and established user-base on a product. They had assets and unique IP. IBM's present state is closer to the realities of Apple in the way that Twitter sits with Yahoo.

Twitter was already a dying business by the time yet another white crusader jumped in to save it from.... (checks notes) no freedom of speech? Then.... "X" was going to be an "everything" App, 'stick with us', there's more here than yours ability to be racist and spread Russian DIP without thinking comfortably... This from the guy that almost turned his most successful venture into an asset base that gave tangibility to crypto currency, with absolutely no benefit to that company.

So sure, throw around the irrelevant examples statement with no qualification. Knock yourself out.
 
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I might have a paid a couple of bucks for Twitter as it was. I wouldn’t pay a penny for the **** show it is now.
 
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Instead of paying Elon to put something on the cloud, you could just have dinner with someone and pay the bill and gain interpersonal skills at the same time!
 
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