Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
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#2Imo both of these things are true:
1. For anyone who uses X for more than a few hours per month, a low fee is totally worthwhile.
2. This is a huge gamble that has the potential to wreck the company.
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#3Charging for access is at odds with the idea of a public town square. On the other hand, I can't help but feel that this will raise the level of discourse. Folks like the idea of free public speech, but then it inevitably becomes (in actual, physical town squares) overrun with religious fundamentalists, political zealots and marketers. What people actually want is a salon.
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#4Imo both of these things are true: 1. For anyone who uses X for more than a few hours per month, a low fee is totally worthwhile. 2. This is a huge gamble that has the potential to wreck the company.
I've always wondered what percentage of "users" are "lurks" who never login, occasionally check a profile or click on a tweet on another website.
One of the previous uses of twitter was "announcements". Government, corporate, emergency, community, software, etc.
The previous move to require logging in was already a massive blow to that, requiring a payment would decimate it was a use-case.
I don't see company's/governments putting announcements on a paid platform. You can't expect people to pay for twitter for announcements.
Re: Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
#5good, let Twitter die.
Find it on this list soon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
Re: Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
#6As someone who both actually likes Musk and uses Twitter a lot, there's a good chance I'll just naturally stop using it if you need a paid subscription.
Re: Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
#7If it makes sense to charge users for creating and accessing content, then it could also make sense for Google to charge X for indexing it and making it discoverable.
Re: Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
#8good, let Twitter die. Find it on this list soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
The consequence of this will be that the entirety of online discussion will be in the hands of one company: Meta.
I hate social media either way but it does seem problematic to have the vast majority public discourse moderated and controlled by one company.
Re: Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
#9good, let Twitter die. Find it on this list soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
The consequence of this will be that the entirety of online discussion will be in the hands of one company: Meta. I hate social media either way but it does seem problematic to have the vast majority public discourse moderated and controlled by one company.
Meta's services are not public though? You can only read a few lines before you need to login, I think.
Re: Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
#10good, let Twitter die. Find it on this list soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
The consequence of this will be that the entirety of online discussion will be in the hands of one company: Meta. I hate social media either way but it does seem problematic to have the vast majority public discourse moderated and controlled by one company.
Kinda? It's not like there aren't alternatives, but the user base numbers are vastly different. I'd be curious to know how many of these are active users now.
BlueSky: 1 million (Sept 2023) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-mil...
Mastadon: 10 million (March 2023) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registere...
Threads: 100 million (July 2023) https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threa...