I’ve managed to stay away from Twitter while it was free.
Pretty sure I’ll manage when it’s blocked behind the paper curtain.
In fact, they’d have to pay me to join. And with all the new paying subscriptions they’ll have, maybe they’ll have enough.
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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Long live mastodon. And bluesky too, when they finally open up and stop with the invite codes.
We all know he's too big of a pussy to actually do this. Stupid claim just to stay in the media
Yeah, this claim falls under "I'll believe it when I see it." I've never used Twitter in my life, couldn't care less if it dies, but this would truly just be suiciding the site. Musk is a megalomaniac, I can't see him just straight giving up his platform.
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I hope that this really starts to be the downfall of Twitter/X.
But knowing how loyal Musk’s fanbase can be, I have a feeling many will be happy to pay.
That's a great idea! Can't wait for the end of biweekly news about how Twitter is changing, since it will die immediately.
I never thought there was any point to using Twitter in the first place, but now really, why would anyone stay on there?
Legacy audiences for entertainers?
Who gives a shit
I knew he was going to run Twitter into the ground, but I'm impressed at the speed and efficiency of it.
He needs revenue and this is a high risk, medium reward way to get it if he sees no end in sight on the advertising front.
And it's not like there's no way to make a subscription model work online, the NYT is doing it well. Lots of substacks and patreons are doing it.
But it's essentially launching a new company, with all the risk that entails. Subscription model flatly does not work with the network effects necessary for Twitter.
A Twitter where everyone has to pay, will not be worth paying for.
Fine by me. Accelerates the process of putting that dumpster fire out of its misery.
Right up front here, Musk is an absolute idiot, and wrong about almost everything. I am not defending him as a person, and I am not defending his specific plan here to have people pay monthly for their account.
However -- charging a small one-time fee for an actual account with the ability to post is a legitimate avenue to reduce bots. SomethingAwful forums have done this for a long time: an SA account is $10. Doing something like that (maybe not as high as $10), and grandfathering in existing accounts - that could work, because the main thrust would be using the fee as a bot-blocker.
Musk, however, just wants the money, and he's hiding that behind the idea of preventing bots with it.
you dont charge your product to exist. its clear elon doesnt understand what he purchased
I’d pay for social media. But not from any of the current giants.
These websites cost a lot to run. They make that money via ads and selling your info. If a new social media came along with a month subscription, no ads, and protected my data then I’d be fine with it. I don’t trust Twitter to do that though. I’d see them collecting the monthly fee, still giving me ads and still selling my data.
It doesn’t work at scale.
$1, $10, or even $100 is nothing to me or possibly you, but to someone else that is grocery money, and most of us won’t pay a dime just out of principle.
I pay around $50/mo to my favorite sites for content. I wouldn’t give Twitter a dime. If this gets the few stragglers off Twitter and onto mastodon I am all for it.