I agree, I would like customized tl as well. I largely stopped using it when Twitter decided what order I consumed tweets in.
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Twitter's 'Blue' Subscription Service May Cost $2.99, Will Offer Undo Tweet Option
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I do miss Twitter pre-algorithm, could actually see breaking news climbing the trends list as it was happening without being filtered through news outlets and trend curation. Still remember being on Twitter when the Boston marathon bombing happened and seeing it immediately, long before television channels had cut to the “breaking story.”
wouldn't that acknowledge that Twitter is a publisher? Wonder what DJT would think of this development.
Twitter has been working on some kind of subscription service since last summer, and Jane Manchun Wong, who often digs into new features coming in apps, has shared details on just what Twitter is exploring.
Twitter's subscription service could be called Twitter Blue, and at the current time, it's priced at $2.99 per month. There will be a "Collections" section that allows users to save and organize their favorite tweets to make them easier to find at a later date.
It will also include an "Undo Tweets" feature, which will give customers a short time to "Undo" a tweet that has a mistake before it's actually posted on the social network. The Tweet Undo period looks to be customizable, so users can set their preferred interval.
Users will also be able to select where the Undo Tweet feature will be applied, with options that include original tweets, replies, tweetstorms, and quote tweets.
Wong says that Twitter is working on a tiered subscription pricing model, so one tier could have more paid features than another.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said last July that Twitter would set a "really high bar" for when Twitter would ask customers to "pay for aspects of Twitter."
There is no word on when Twitter's subscription functionality could roll out, nor what it will cost when it launches. Pricing and feature set could change because the subscription option is still in testing.
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I pay it too, but honestly it’s worth the price if you watch it or listen to it. I use it for white noise, music for the gym, motivational videos, lectures etc so paying for not being forced to worth crappy ads has its value.
Twitter today is a COMPLETELY different animal than it was pre-2016.
If no ads meant that much to me, I'd switch to Android and use an adblocker. I haven't seen a single YouTube ad on desktop in years.
If your twitter account was opted out of advertisements and tracking I could see this being worth paying money for without having to sacrifice all your privacy to advertising companies.
There's an undo tweet, but is there an edit tweet? I feel like a lot of people would pay money to edit their tweets. Or maybe just charge a small micro transaction each time you edit a tweet? IDK.
For about twenty years, itunes included “internet radio”, which was a directory just like songs or movies, of thousands of existing radio stations, from local to college, to endless DIY stations dedicated to one kind of content or another, to public radio & international stations, all streaming their broadcasts over the web you could listen to completely for free. Apparently no one used “internet radio”, and millions of people preferred to pay Spotify and Apple Music each month instead.
