X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features
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#2I’ll never use this crap but $1 a year is smart. People will sign up for it because it’s nothing and that gives twitter a foot in the door for price hikes later.
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#3When he made the purchase I disagreed with people that it was a bad business decision because at the time revenue was approx 6 billion and if they could lower operating costs while increasing revenue it would actually make a ton of sense.
I've sinced changed my mind.
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#4I know people are down on the-social-networking-platform-formerly-known-as-twitter, and
I have no skin in the game, I gave up on social networking about a decade ago, but I think this is the model to beat. Forever the FOSS world has said, "if you do not pay for the product, you are the product". Well, here is X trying to make a product you pay for.
I do not know their new policy on tracking/ads/spying but even if they do that stuff still, they are making a way for competition that doesn't. I think this is good.
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#5The paywall on Fortune that is telling me to pay $1 monthly to see the article is so, so sweetly ironic
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#6This is going to kill engagement. 90% of people don't care enough to pay for that and any sort of barrier will lower engagement.
Twitter/X is going to be use this as a way to fight spammers and bots but those accounts never had a problem paying or using stolen money.
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#7in related news, a new "private browser" tab with Google Image Search just asked me if I want to "sign in with fingerprints or eyescan" possible answers -- later or Let's Go
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#8I’ll never use this crap but $1 a year is smart. People will sign up for it because it’s nothing and that gives twitter a foot in the door for price hikes later.
The seemingly smartest thing about it is that it’s reportedly for just new users. Many/most power users might stay. But huge numbers of casual (but otherwise active and monetizable) users would just drop off rather that go through the process of adding their payment info.
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#9I tried to open a link from an X profile today and couldn’t get it to open in safari just the X app’s crappy browser. I had to exit out then hold press then open it in their crappy browser then open it in safari. Either this is intentional or things are just deteriorating. I feel like one dev could make the UI of the app work, that the hard part is the backend stuff. But what do I know.
Re: X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features
#10I know people are down on the-social-networking-platform-formerly-known-as-twitter, and I have no skin in the game, I gave up on social networking about a decade ago, but I think this is the model to beat. Forever the FOSS world has said, "if you do not pay for the product, you are the product". Well, here is X trying to make a product you pay for. I do not know their new policy on tracking/ads/spying but even if the…
>Well, here is X trying to make a product you pay for.
No, this is an attempt to have it both ways. To do data collection / data brokerage and ALSO charge users for the service.