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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 年前

Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees

www.theguardian.com

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Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees

www.theguardian.com

RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 年前
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Billionaire also says platform has 550 million monthly users generating up to 200m posts a day
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    Do it Do it Do it

    • Thann@lemmy.ml
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      Google should just purge twitter results already

      • placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml
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        Twitter already broke their internet search results just a couple of months ago:

        https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23783153/google-twitter-tweets-changes-rate-limits

        That’s believed to be why they reversed on the “must log in to read” and rate limiting policies.

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        They operate hand in glove, that won’t happen until X goes bankrupt and closes it’s doors. Which sadly won’t happen soon enough.

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    Twitter is a service that actively pushes you toward the exit. Mastodon is a much better alternative.

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    Get this out of here this isn’t world news

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    Yes he could charge all users a subscription. But he can also have significantly less then 550m users. At the same time giving the remaining users less motivation to want to fund the service. Also advertisers less reason to use it. Leading to higher subscription costs. Leading to less users.

    A bit like the mythic Oozlum bird. As musk spins around in ever decreasing circles. Untill he disappears up his own arsehole.

    Hold on…

    Hey Elon sounds like a good plan to me.

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    Lol, please do Elon. Please do.

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    DO IT you pussy

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    Do it Musk Rat, strike it down.

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    This is the best idea he’s had so far. I bet that place will actually be tolerable once everyone has left.

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      No, he’ll still be there.

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    This would be amazing!

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    If he did it, but it was completely Ad free and offered better controls of your feed as well as being able to alter the “algorithm” to be less bubble like and idiotic, it might be worth it…

    … if it wasn’t for mastodon.

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