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Twitter May Be Planning to Add More Premium Tiers
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I hope that it’s the same number of ads in the feed but they’re all just cropped so you can’t read most of the post.
Elon: Cut their feeds into pieces, this is our last resort.
X, formerly known as XXX, has become a pile of sludge. Never waste time on any posts about this dead bird.
Social network X, previously known as Twitter, may soon offer more than one subscription tier. Code in the app suggests that the Premium offering could be split into three, including Premium Basic, Premium Standard, and Premium Plus.
Premium basic lists "full ads" in the For You feed, while Premium Standard says it has "half ads" in For You. Premium Plus says there will be no ads in For You. Given the specific mention of the For You feed, it sounds like all of the tiers will continue to have ads in replies. Revenue from reply ads is used for paying content creators on the social network.
At the current time, a Premium subscription is priced at $8 per month or $84 per year, and there is no word yet on what the new tiers might be priced at. There are also no other details on the differences between the plans or launch information.
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I would like to take a moment to give due credit to Tim Cook for his courage and leadership — in the face of some pretty powerful social headwinds — in making the less-popular, probably more difficult decision to keep Apple on as an advertiser on “X” (with the conspicuous caveat that he wants Apple CarPlay in Teslas!).
The popular, easier, more “socially acceptable” thing would have been to make (some sort of) political statement by joining companies that stopped advertising on “X/Twitter” all because Elon Musk bought it, fired a lot of useless employees, uncensored a lot of people and unbanned a lot of banned accounts — erring on the side of More speech/Free speech as the remedy for offensive speech, incorrect information and “disfavored opinions.”
(How would MacRumors fare if they were officially penalized for being wrong?)
People had their Tweets taken down and were put in Twitter “time out” if they simply Tweeted about how they suffered body aches after receiving their CoViD-19 vaccine shot.
Harvard and Stanford MDs and PhDs had their Tweets removed — and in some cases, their accounts banned — if they wrote true information about the pandemic or the vaccines (and on facebook, Mark Zuckerberg felt pressured to do the same and now admits he feels regret for a lot of the censorship of true information he and facebook engaged in).
It’s a thorny issue. “Misinformation” seems to be the newest watchword to justify arbitrary censorship.
But for many years, I’ve seen no restraint placed on people who express online their beliefs that the earth is flat (not a globe like some crazy people think it is [j/k] 😆), that the moon-landing(s) were fake, that 9/11 was an inside job, that Hitler is still alive at age 134, living in Argentina with Elvis.
Should the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News be shut down in the name of “misinformation”?
There was a time when I felt Tim Cook was using Apple to wade into every political issue to come up.
Steve Jobs had acutely strong political views, but he always kept them out of Apple’s business.
But I guess if you make products in the repressive China and sell products in the repressive China, you have very little ground on which to take a stand as a company, on an issue like the public bathroom policy in a particular State or jurisdiction in the U.S.
Apple’s number one business is business, not politics.
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First principles. A billion dollars on an island has zero value. It seems X makes him happy. What is the price of happiness for someone who's worth over 200 billion dollars and has one, small shed on a rocket base?
I even installed a browser extension that keeps the "Twitter" name and the bird logo.
I really hope that people still can see the difference between a forum and a social media platform.
Forums are usually way more moderated is the first major difference. A racial slur here would not last many minutes, and the user would be banned shortly.
Every large and reputable forum are run like this, with some exceptions, which usually are just the forums a serious person don’t want to participate in. Thing is, most know this, and can choose forum accordingly.
Forums are pretty awesome, and self regulated to a large extent. They live and die by their users and not by huge corporations that needs growth and profits.
Just my simple thoughts.
You have the 1/4 and 3/4 in the wrong spots. They should be swapped.
Full
3/4
Half
1/4
Zero
Ditching Tw@tter (or whatever it's called these days!) and other social media platforms was the best thing for my mental health
What's wrong with charging to remove ads. It's a pretty normal thing to do -- even this macrumors forum does that. Netflix are in the news talking about ad free tiers. Wasn't there something about Disney doing it too?
Musk could give away free sweets and he'd have loads of people complaining about it
Musk could give away free sweets and he'd have loads of people complaining about it
Misinformation is nothing new, it's just that there are more ways to spread it these days.
nah it’s a forum, not a platform.
Not really. You get to talk about the subject in hand here. It's actively moderated and going off on big tangents will get you suspended or kicked out. X has become 4chan for misinformation and rants about everything and anything now and, full of bots ( are there any here ? ) and fake accounts. It's just not worth visiting anymore. Even local information has gone down the pan.
And my newsfeed is some right wing political rant or other All about America. I am in the UK and barely care about my own government.
I am still on it for one specific person but they've had enough too now and are going back to blogs!
I think the addition of half ads is some kind of crazy scheme to nickel-and-dime more money out of those people left in it. But as an information source — which is the only reason I still have an account — it’s become quite polluted with all sorts of junk. I spend very little time there anymore…
