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Elon Musk has indicated that X, formerly known as Twitter, is preparing to charge all users for accessing the platform.
The X owner said erecting a paywall around the business would ward off the bots, or automated accounts, that have become a bugbear for Musk.
Speaking in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, the Tesla CEO and world’s richest person suggested that X was going to charge its user base. Currently, Twitter only charges users for its subscription service X Premium, which offers perks such as a verified account checkmark and costs $11 a month in the US for iPhones and £11 in the UK.
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Haha, no one is gonna pay to use social media. I don’t use Twitter but you would never get me to pay for absolute garbage brain rot. I’m already on lemmy for that and it’s free.
They want me to pay to be advertised at.
Lol.
to be advertised at & have nazi propaganda pushed on you.
Cable TV…
Its all going back that way isn’t it.
Don’t some people already pay a subscription fee to Twitter?
Yes, they are called idiots. It’s another idiot tax, like gambling.
The lottery is either a tax on stupidity or a tax on hope.
I don’t know which is more depressing.
Hope.
Hope because the people who really buy lottery tickets on a regular basis want that financial security, winning a lottery would provide.
I’m convinced he’s ruining Twitter on purpose. He’s still pissed he was forced into buying it.
I like the theory that he’s killing it to prevent us peons from organizing politically.
I think you’re right but I don’t like it.
It’s impractical. Pandoras Box of social media has been opened. Killing a few big sites isn’t going to stop it
He did the whole hyperloop nonsense to sell more Teslas, so there is precedent for it at least.
People are finding out teslas are pieces of shit so idk how much longer he’ll want to advertise them. Kidding but teslas really are shit.
He did the hyper loop to stop the mass transit systems. Not really to sell more Teslas.
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It’ll only work if you kill Facebook, c’mon Elon I don’t think you have the balls
Let me guess. Paying a subscription will not mean the end of ads.
I have been wondering for a while what he would have to do to finally crash twitter, I think this may be it.
No, but it will be the end of his advertising revenue. Does that count?
I think it’s one of his best ideas he’s ever had. I fully support this move and everyone else should as well.
What a wonderful, genius, innovative idea. Such brilliance. I think he should also keep ads on there as well.
The X owner said erecting a paywall around the business would ward off the bots, or automated accounts, that have become a bugbear for Musk.
Idiot manchild proudly breaks something he knows nothing about, complains when it doesn’t work as expected, news at eleven.
what is this clickbait bullshit??? I’ve seen multiple articles yet the wording is always ‘floated the idea’, but from the headline you could infer it’s an official announcement.
fuck modern ‘journalism’
It’s an interesting thought, but he misses the #1 problem with online subscriptions- sign-up friction.
If you could just push a button and instantly be charged something, an awful lot of people would do it.
But when you go from $0 to $0.01, you will lose 99% of people, because most people can’t be bothered to fill out a form, put in their credit card number, etc. Even if the amount of money involved is absurdly small, it’s not the price, it’s the friction.Now if he integrates the app with Apple Pay or Google Wallet that will help, a little. But only a little.
PayPal? Venmo? Just as ubiquitous and already part of his vertical integration.
Assuming the cost is stupid low like a $1/year, low enough that almost nobody will think ‘is this really worth it?’-- every required click or tap after hitting ‘subscribe now’ costs you 25-50% of the people who are still there.
Make it 1 penny for a lifetime subscription. Just having to thumbprint for Google Pay will still cost you 25-50% of the people who hit subscribe. Make it a credit card form with card/exp/cvv/address/tel# and your purchase rate is down to maybe 1% of the people who hit subscribe.
Over on Mastodon: brace for impact!
I’ll stick with lemmy and kbin. Mastodon sucks.
I have to say it didn’t work for me, Calckey is much better but I may just not be a microblogging person as I prefer it over here.
Looking up Calckey now.
But I like Kbin because it combines a reddit clone with a Twitter clone for each sub.
Calckey recently rebranded to firefish.social
I migrated my mastodon account - it’s much better in every way. (no offense intended to Mastodon)
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https://firefish.social/ is what I use.
But (no snark intended) you are using it wrong if you are relying on your specific instance being populated. It federates with Mastodon, so just follow all the folks you’d follow on Mastodon. If you have a Mastodon account, you can automatically suck them over, and those who follow you also.
Yes, I haven’t tried kbin as I’ve been happy on Lemmy. It would not surprise me if Lemmy introduced a feature to follow people that would open it up more to the Fediverse.
@sentient_loom #kbin for the win!
Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
It’s really working against him at this point. A lot more people that were looking to buy his products and services aren’t anymore.
I think it’s bigger news that that fuck is meeting with that other fuck Netanyahu. What the fuck business do those two fascist scum have with each other?
Asking the real questions here.
Good fucking question.
It’s surprising that in all these years, nobody came up with this innovation to make Twitter more profitable but in just a short time period, Musk was able to figure it out. Goes to show why he’s the richest man in the world!
Looks like Elon Musk and John Riccitiello are trying to see who can run their company into the ground the quickest.
Yep, this is the final nail in the coffin. Most people will just stop. Good job boosting the Mastodon community, Moron Musk.
Honestly, my hot take is that Mastodon is already better than X. Less toxic, more feature rich, more flexible, and built to be decentralized.
Oh hell yeah
ngl I totally support this decision
Mastodon.World stock is increasing
Sadly people want their corporate daddy and Bluesky will get most of them
