Just fucking do it.
Maybe then other media will finally stop reporting shit like
“Person Z said Y on X (formerly Twitter).”It’s annoying enough when they report what someone famous said on Twitter but the articles about what a bunch of random unknown people posted on Twitter (often phrased as if they represent a community) are even worse.
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“Twitter went wild about this!”
Source: 5 random tweets from people with 22 followers each, most of whom are crypto spammers
In my language we also have this “X (formerly Twitter)” shit, it’s like these fucking stringers got it shoved down their throat by the marketing/lawyer team
Yeah, it’s crazy how much influence Twitter still has on the media conversation. Nothing that happens on Mastodon ever makes the news because journalists haven’t been able to figure it out.
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Please kill it harder
Yes please. Do it.
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Who in their right mind would pay for a dying social media platform? This reeks of desperation from a man trying to convince himself of his own supposed public image.
The requirement to create an account to view replies/threads is a show stopper for me and it has somehow made Twitter even more useless. It barely had value when it was freely legible but it’s not worth sharing data with them to get festering garbage in return.
Yet he thinks people are going to pay for it?
We live in a world where social media and communication are commoditized as fuck and people refuse to pay premiums for shit they can do for free elsewhere. How is Twitter going to compete with Instagram, Threads, Mastodon, Reddit, and Facebook when it’s arguably the worst choice, objectively the least feature rich, yet the only one that costs money?
Yet he thinks people are going to pay for it?
The people who produce the garbage will pay for it and maybe a few journalists who want to report on the newest pile of garbage, trying to create enough outrage to generate a few clicks on their shitty “news” site.
Those people are already paying though
He’s seemed oddly desperate for money not only about twitter, but also how he’s the 1 or 2 wealthiest person in the world yet feels the need to run crypto pump-and-dump scams and game the stock market.
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the whole plan stinks of a man that doesn’t understand the value of money to 99% of humans
no, it’s not JUST $13; it’s a streaming subscription, it’s a nice dessert, it’s a couple of drinks at a bar
Not only the value of money (he really thought people would pay $20 a month for Blue?!); he doesn’t understand Twitter. He’s never been on the side of Twitter that used to joke “Twitter is free!” whenever funny stuff happened on the site. There are whole parts of Twitter he’s never seen, and he thinks his very narrow use case of Twitter is THE way Twitter is used.
When the running joke used to be “Twitter is free,” no one is going to want to pay for it.
He surely doesn’t understand the value of $20, like how Bill Gates guessed that a banana was probably $10.
He fundamentally doesn’t understand what Twitter is/was or does. That’s why this is like watching someone enter a race but keep tripping on their own shoelaces.
Nope. Like, he thinks there’s a huge bot problem on Twitter because he has to deal with bots because he’s famous and talks about crypto. Most Twitter users never deal much with bots so it’s not the big concern. But he does, so he thinks blaming bots for all Twitter’s problems is effective.
I bet he was shocked there was pushback for his API changes when it impacted accounts like the NY subway system, who used it to announce schedule delays. I bet I t never occurred to him people actually used Twitter for something other than shitposting.
Dude thinks he’s a genius (he’s not). This is the problem when you only look at the outcome of something without factoring what caused it (lots of luck including birth lottery and the effort and talent of people around him in this case).
I think the biggest problem at this point is how much Twitter has replaced a core part of how journalism used to function. Back in the day, if a company/organization/famous person/etc was doing something of note, they would write a press release and send it to news organizations, who would then decide how to cover (or not cover) the story.
Now, shit just gets tweeted out and a good chunk of journalism is just putting a few words around that tweet and calling it news. If Twitter disappeared tomorrow and no clone immediately popped up in its place, modern journalism would collapse.
I’m not saying that’s a bad thing.
You could ask the same about paying for verification. But a very surprising number of people did that.
I agree with your core point in general, but the reality possibly is “lots of people”. The vast, vast majority of people appear to have stuck with TwitX because that’s where the people are. People aren’t moving to other places because the people aren’t there. A jillion organizations, “influencers”, wanna-be “influencers”, etc are still there because of inertia that surprisingly hasn’t run out.
And a whole bunch of idiots have paid for the blue checkmark because they are desperate for attention and think they’ll get more views that way. In many cases they’re right.
This move, I think, would be more likely to motivate people to move or avoid the platform, but it’s ridiculous to me how many people are left after all the other bullshit (including requiring logins, dropping blocking, all the right-wing propaganda and terrible recommendations in general, Musk’s behavior, at least a handful of people dropping the platform, etc).
He may be losing money and advertisers but holy shit are a bunch of people still there.
Shitfluencers, bots and corporate profiles
I would imagine people with huge followings and money to burn. Once the paywall is up, those huge followings are going to shrink fast.
Do it.
You won’t.
No balls.
Great idea. I definitely support this decision.
He said creating such a system is “the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots
Lol the fucking “bots” again.
The thing is that the bots aren’t going to lower by much when he does that, since the majority of bots on there are his own.
It does seem like it, considering how many inactive accounts follow him
So he’s really keeping that font as his logo?
Looks like it, no indication of going back. Over a decade of brand recognition into the trash.
He’s still raging because the “bots” were supposed to get him out of having to purchase the company on wildly unfavorable terms. He’ll ride this excuse along with the whole business straight into the ground.
Please DO
Yes, do it then everyone will move to mastodon and we can finally forget about twitter (x) existence
You know deep down that most people would move to Threads.
Dew it!
Oh thank God, then we can all finally move on and stop talking about it.
I don’t hate what Twitter used to be. I never engaged with it much myself, but it was a fantastic tool for progressive organizations to network and mobilize, and the loss of that will genuinely hurt us all.
But at this point, that tool is already on life support. Better for it to die outright so that people find a new way to do those things x rather than this endless half life it’s now trapped in.
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.
I just like watching the service formally known as twitter burn.
Nothing like a daily dose of schadenfreude to make everything else seem brighter and nicer…
While I certainly agree, Twitter is where the #MeToo movement was born. Twitter was probably the only media not controlled by billionaires until now. A movement similar to metoo but shaming billionaires is Americans only hope
not controlled by billionaires
Uhhh… Jack Dorsey?
He resigned a few years back
So? He’d still be one of the largest shareholders.
CEOs are subservient to the Board of Directors. And the Board of Directors are subservient to the shareholders. That’s corporate structure in America.
Actually he doesn’t, he’s into into Square, something else. Get off my dick if you have nothing of value to contribute. This isn’t Reddit, you don’t need to make contrary remarks for no reason
Literally every single day we have idiots telling us that we aren’t allowed to enjoy news articles.
Downvote “Downvote Musk spam” spam. The lemmy user doesn’t need your help ensuring their comments stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
Uh oh, sounds like a musk fanboy got upset by spam. I’m glad I could help you understand how everyone else feels.
Don’t get me wrong lmao I despise Elionnaire Husk. I just want to know exactly why, so if someone asks me, I have a good answer.
God I hope his checkmark followers gaslight him into doing this
