Given that Twitter data has been becoming less valuable due to recent events, I don't think Twitter has as much leverage to raise the price, even for businesses specializing in such data.
What recent events? Why would their data be less valuable?
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#22...Blackburn, however, says researchers will continue to find a way to scrutinize what’s happening on Twitter. “We’ve been mostly cut off from Facebook for years and we’ve continued to make progress,” he says. “It’s not like science is going to be held hostage by a guy that played himself into burning $44 billion on a website that makes no money, just so he could force all its users to read his shitposts.”
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#23Given that Twitter data has been becoming less valuable due to recent events, I don't think Twitter has as much leverage to raise the price, even for businesses specializing in such data.
What recent events? Why would their data be less valuable?
Maybe this > https://gizmodo.com/meta-p92-twitter-clone-decentralized-mas...
META might go on attack mode.
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#24All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal.
The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just buy the network and run them all day long." Twitter is just becoming that too.
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#25Verified was also going to be $20/mo, I'm sure businesses and researchers are just going to wait it out until the price drops.
So we just need Stephen King to chime in again? Edit for context: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144
Hilarious to see a half-billionaire complain about 20 bucks a month.
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#26At the very least, they should be allowing Blue subscribers enough API access to do basic Zapier style workflows running a few times a day. There are a lot of folks out there who want to do the same simple personal uses of the Twitter API they have been doing for 10+ years.
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#27All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal. The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just…
I would love to see this "buying social media company to force everyone to pay attention to you"incorporated into the last season of Succession, although I am sure it was my mostly written before all of this Musk Twitter drama.
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#28I'm not the greatest Musk fan but IMHO his approach to charge those who benefits from Twitter is spot on and I'm actually rooting for him to be able to find a viable business model which does not rely on selling my attention to highest bidder. If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market n…
They could make even more money if they charged $84k per month! Genius business model.
Not sure if it's true in this case but in many cases charging double and halving your customer base is a win I think.
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#29I'm not the greatest Musk fan but IMHO his approach to charge those who benefits from Twitter is spot on and I'm actually rooting for him to be able to find a viable business model which does not rely on selling my attention to highest bidder. If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market n…
And if collect data, pay for that too.
When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?
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#30All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal. The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just…
But these third parties brought traffic and helped Twitter being relevant.