people are going to be allowed back on the platform, and whoever fit some faggot architect's idea of who should be a beacon of information (aka a blue check) is being replaced by anyone who cares to invest a tiny amount of resources. blue checks only mattered before anyways for people who valued a blue check before, aka someone who fit the political paradigm they put in place
If people are going to pay a fee for verification, then it has to have strict enforcement. If not then the emotionally immature will ruin the platform.
There is value in a platform that you can just sign up for and immediately start posting on, what we see here is him trying to further corporatize the medium and it's weird to see people sucking Elon's dick as he sells it out further.
Twitter remains free for the majority, including yourself.
But not as accessible, much like a Pay2Win game model being applied to a once freer game.
My point is that the guy is offended that people won't pay him money for an even worse experience, and that there isn't enough reason to pay the fee even if willing to.
The same people crying about the $8 checkmark, are the same people who applaud companies for pulling ads.
You can still make money quite easily without prodding it directly out of the userbase's pockets. Even something as simple as rewarding badges for doing surveys for affiliates or choosing to watch advertisements would incentivize people to do so like we've seen with the mobile app market, the key is to find ways of incentivizing the public into doing actions that feel worth it to them, even if that means Farmville-esque minigames to pass ads through.
Even just incorporating ads gently into the background, like we've seen in Neversoft games, Steven Spielberg movies, and even websites decades back like Neopets is enough to collect corporate dollars without interrupting the user experience.
At the moment Twitter is losing $4,000,000 a day.
Any ass can afford $8 a month, and those who are verified are rich.
Elon is trying to advertise the $8 paywall as something everyone should pay, hence his jokes about Lattes. It's not meant for just the rich, and if it were that defeats the purpose of platforming it under the guise of free speech. This even adds complications for the teen market who may not have as much room to throw money at the platform, which means they, a rather large and booming market, will feel the need to migrate elsewhere.
He's hypocritical to the point of irony at this point, and would be better off reverting it to the pre-$8 plan and going back to the drawing board. These are the same decisions I've seen made over other platforms that in time strangled all the life out of it for a quick buck, it's a bad plan.
The fact that it was built around being free is a lot of it's initial draw, and it should be Twitter's responsibility to find how to thrive off of a free userbase like many, many other companies have successfully done.
Well damn. I never gave any money to Twitter and nothing is going to change. It's still free to use
So is Fall Guys, yet you see massive droves of people leaving over changing how earning their e-currency to buy costume pieces works. The game's getting new maps and modes and is free to start playing, yet everyone is leaving over changing how their game economy works.
You do not have a verified twitter handle, you can still use it for free, you're literally being a tool.
Where's your brain ?
I'm surprised someone like you who pays attention to pay trends and stock movement wouldn't otherwise see the problem with Elon's plan. This is him effectively trying to remodel Twitter as Bitchute by having money go straight to the company rather than purely through corporate appeasement, but rather than branding it as a Safe Space he's advertising it as Free Speech with a Paywall.
If he makes Twitter worse, people will move to a newer platform that conforms towards their older expectations. Even without a brain this should be obvious to you when we have other models to compare it from.
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people are going to be allowed back on the platform, and whoever fit some faggot architect's idea of who should be a beacon of information (aka a blue check) is being replaced by anyone who cares to invest a tiny amount of resources. blue checks only mattered before anyways for people who valued a blue check before, aka someone who fit the political paradigm they put in place
They're converting the site into a Bitchute, but without having it go through e-coin. The point is moreover how they are changing what the blue checkmark is for and what it's governing for this price tag, and those who were deplatformed will maintain roughly the same voice they had before with or without Twitter ala Alex Jones if Twitter is just perceived as said Bitchute-lite.
He would have been better off making a new website entirely, but I guess he saw the Twitter crowd as an untapped resource. Much like Fracking however he's going to see the infrastructure fall apart or at least change into something different from not caring about the ecology.
not even political at that point necessarily, it was like anyone who worked a job that had social prestige and didn't say anything off-kilter
It's corporate while trying to shill towards politics, which will just make them Bitchute lite.
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Boo hoo.
Twitter still remains free for you.
The experience is worse though, and it's liable to make people leave.
We also don't yet know what Elon will do once he sees he's not making enough money from this plan, the guy already is doing half-ads rather than none from the monthly fee experience so he must be pretty desperate.
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Boo hoo.
Twitter still remains free for you.
The experience is worse though, and it's liable to make people leave.
Keep telling yourself that, when really you're participating in a political mob mentality.
The experience is exactly the same.
We also don't yet know what Elon will do once he sees he's not making enough money from this plan, the guy already is doing half-ads rather than none from the monthly fee experience so he must be pretty desperate.
Lol. Well he better not charge the rich $8 a month.
The only thing that changed, was how the rule is enforced. Before it would issue warnings.
If people are going to pay a fee for verification, then it has to have strict enforcement. If not then the emotionally immature will ruin the platform.
As usual, when purging demons, there's going to be kicking and screaming and vulgar behavior. Some people are ugly on the inside. It's all for degeneracy
No more government or hidden agendas telling Twitter what to do or censoring someone because of disagreement.
Also. Twitter's usage is at an all time high. Not to provoke your programming Lena.
I know it's at an all time high, why would that provoke my "programming"?
It's not the same and e-ecology can be pretty delicate once you get above certain numbers.
Either way point taken, you cannot see Elon as having done anything wrong apparently from him being in your collection of corporate messiahs.
We also don't yet know what Elon will do once he sees he's not making enough money from this plan, the guy already is doing half-ads rather than none from the monthly fee experience so he must be pretty desperate.
Lol. Well he better not charge the rich $8 a month.
What do you see him doing if this doesn't work out for him?
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The only thing that changed, was how the rule is enforced. Before it would issue warnings.
If people are going to pay a fee for verification, then it has to have strict enforcement. If not then the emotionally immature will ruin the platform.
As usual, when purging demons, there's going to be kicking and screaming and vulgar behavior. Some people are ugly on the inside. It's all for degeneracy
No more government or hidden agendas telling Twitter what to do or censoring someone because of disagreement.
Also. Twitter's usage is at an all time high. Not to provoke your programming Lena.
I know it's at an all time high, why would that provoke my "programming"?
Because you hate who your programmers want you to hate.
In this case it's Elon.