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2y ago

Elon Musk is considering charging everyone to use Twitter

Couldn't have picked a better time to come up with an outrageously greedy change to an existing service huh

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he just told Benjamin Netanyahu
lmao wtf
it's wild too because bot account owners are more likely to pay a small fee than real users. hope he does it that would be the death knell
the last 83 changes musk made to the website have only ever made it worse but this clearly bad 84th idea is going to completely change the platform for the better, trust me guys
- During discussing twitter in a pub a person was quite angry that I didn't refer to the bird site with the name
  likes so much. The same person sometimes argues that dead naming is not a problem, till the new name is accepted by the state in official registries and the person got an ID with that.
- Flip side of the same coin.
  The last 83 changes were supposed to kill Twitter but I keep hearing from people on Twitter about how nobody should be using Twitter at this point. Surely this 84th nail will be the final one in the coffin.
  He could easily get a few million chuds to pay him money for the dopamine hit of seeing their last tweet got 84 trillion views and likes on a website that used to be dominated by libs.
DO IT YOU COWARD!
- He won't do it solely because he is a coward.
Critical support to Comrade Musk in his one man campaign to destroy Twitter.
- Great Man Theory is real
- Trust the plan
DO IT
What if we take the free thing and charge people for it?
sports stadium airhorn blows as I win capitalism
- I mean, it's working for Nestle with water
  
  I was going to say that people need water more than twitter, but the way some people use it... :yea:
Whatever is necessary to make it die.
Elon musk saw how fast the ceo of unity was destroying faster than he could destroy twitter
- Shit, what is going on with unity now?
  
  https://unity.com/runtime-fee
Bluesky really fucked up with the invite only thing.
- Looks like they'll get another shot
  
  Threads has the advantage of not being invite only, but Bluesky has the vibe down of pre Musk Twitter
- ~~I have a bunch of invite codes~~
  Edit: ~~I have one code left~~ all gone
  
  Just use Mastodon ffs. Shame to see communists lining themselves up to sign up for yet another capitalist spyware program.
  
  Feel like PMing one my way?
  
  I want one please
  
  Helo comrade could u spare a code
  
  Requesting as well if you have one, no rush
  
  Do you have another one?
looking forward to x/twitter going the way of Unity game engine
If everyone quits twitter the bots will leave too.
Musk is 4 parallel universes ahead
I hope this kills twitter, nothing would be lost
Please God let Melon kill Twitter
- If it's not dead already I don't see how it ever dies.
  It should have been a ghost town 2 weeks after musk took over but people are so addicted to it everybody keeps talking about how Twitter is done for on Twitter.
  Not really sure why there's anybody left at the nazi bar other than nazis at this point.
  I also never had an account but that's just a layman's outside perspective.
  
  Elon taking over had a relatively small effect on the material conditions of the average user. Charging everybody to use twitter would be a huge change.
I bet this isn't even about increasing revenue. He just wants to make sure twitter is exclusively filled with his dick riders
- 44 billion for a personal ego boost service, billionaires are so smart with money that we should give them more of it
I think it is a splendid idea and I hope he goes through with it
That dumb bimbo had better do it. Take this shit out. End my misery
- I am shit faced enough to possess every 9deology and no ideology at the same time. contradictions are a infant's problem to me. alcoholism legend
Inshallah
It'll be so funny!🤞
100% uncritical support to
in his protracted war against Twitter users
When one lowtax dies, the universe creates another to restore the balance
- Looking back, that guy's name signalled his politics pretty hard
Do they still ban you for linking to your mastodon on that site?
We make fun of him for every decision he makes with Birdsite but he doesn't stop. Does that means he's winning? (serious question)
- I mean he's how many billions of dollars in the hole? That doesn't feel like winning to me
- He's one of the world's richest people, ridiculously powerful, controls absurd amounts of high tech real capital assets, and has thousands of followers
  He's always been winning
- Winning is silly in this context, but Twitter is not dead or dying anytime soon, I no longer believe this for some time now. It will eventualy die, I recommend reading about "enshittification" starting here The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok it is an amazing article realy and yes the length is worth it.
  IMO the internet is now the same like 3-4 websites and to break this would require a convenient alternative that people can jump to. That Meta clone could have been it but it was "enshittified" by default lol.
  Nobody goes from Twitter to Reddit or from there to Facebook etc because these platforms are so old the only new users are people "new" to the market e.g the global south getting first access to internet/social media or literal teenagers.
  The point then is IMO Twitter wont die easily because people simply wont move away because there is no alternative.
  So TL;DR he is not winning lol but Twitter is not dying anytime soon either despite what we all believed at first.
  
  I think Twitter will die on financial terms, if nothing else. They were already mostly making a loss before taking on a loan with huge repayments (and I mean huge). Moves like this aren't just performative, Twitter is bleeding huge amounts of money, and needs to up its revenue enormously, quickly.
what does he have to do to kill twitter
- Stop talking so libs will stop talking about how he's killing Twitter on Twitter keeping it in the headlines 24/7.
How do we not have an emoji of Palpatine saying "do it" yet?
- Pretty sure they'd both sell your data and make you pay, but who knows
  
  Yeah, plus payment info is also pretty significant in terms of identifying information, unless they were willing to provide gift cards in physical stores or something. There would need to be a huge legislative push to get them to give up data collection at the same time for any net benefit.
  What scares me more than Twitter pulling these stunts is YouTube. Like, Twitter going down would hurt a lot of artists and creatives and break apart a lot of connections, and it'd be pretty harsh on a lot of people. YouTube going down would be a calamity across government, education, technology, entertainment, and more as billions of tutorials, educational clips, public announcements, etc are wiped off the face of the planet. And the fact that it needs ads and data harvesting to continue existing has possibly been one of the biggest drivers for Google to continue pushing features that lock down the web browser. There is nothing that can stop it except some massive government mobilization (which we can't exactly trust the US government to do alone).
- It's a false dichotomy though since the internet used to largely be neither full of trackers nor pay-for, without being a public utility
i dont get the comments about killing twitter, its literally been incredibly important for organizing and would be a big loss for many organizations unfortunately
- Yeah no thats actually true it was also incredibly important for getting the truth out during the first wave of BLM.
Yeah and the majority are going to stay. Twitter is slowly dying, but it's not going to see an immediate plunge that makes it irrelevant overnight.
That's not a nitter link >:(
- Oh, I didn't even notice that I forgot to convert it. Fixed it now.

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