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Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by legitster »

cgh wrote: post #109
marktangotango wrote: post #63

I really wish twitter didn't exist. The utility I see in it is limited. For example, I don't have an account, but I do view tweets from time to time. The tweets I generally view are related to some real time event I'm interested in (ie news). I find the fact that even then, there is usually an endless stream of mostly banal, vapid responses to be very off putting. Not only do I find the content vastly uninteresting,…

I follow scientists, mathematicians, authors, comic creators, comedians and so forth. I stay away from politics for the most part (I'm not American so they mostly don't apply to me anyway). I do follow some military analysts re Ukraine. Today, for example, the physicist Sabine Hossenfelder posted a series of tweets criticising this article: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-bell-theorem-quantum-genuinely... It was intere…

My friend was in a doctoral program and everyone in it spent ALL DAY on Twitter. It almost became a coordination platform for them, and I get the distinct impression that the field largely homologized from it.

So I guess it's kind of neat in one regard, but I think people might underrate how powerfully it rounds away distinct viewpoints or novel findings.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by croes »

fluidcruft wrote: post #55
minimaxir wrote: post #5

The price 100% was $20/mo as previously reported by journalists until Twitter dunked on it, and Elon's interpretation of the backlash is "the price is too high" and not "any price makes no sense at all." This pricing clarification is most likely due to Stephen King's complaint: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144 > We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How…

I'm getting a chuckle thinking about Elon as ThePirateBay and Stephen King as the MPAA.

Since when does ThePirateBay demand a fee and the MPAA says it's too high?

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by mikkergp »

Waterluvian wrote: post #51
mikkergp wrote: post #12

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It's such... odd behavior. For sure Stephen King who has a net worth of $500 million dollars does not mean "the price is too high". If Elon is successful, even I will read the business school case study on it, because it flies in the face of everything I understand about complex systems and... well just about everything. The only way this works is if Elon's internal processes are way different from his public persona…

One of the things I admire about Elon (which is saying a lot...) is that for whatever reason, he's ready to bet the farm over and over. Whether he's some genius tactician or an impulsive moron, he just bought Twitter and is poised to drastically alter it. "flies in the face of everything I understand about complex systems" indeed! Forgive me for this analogy but it's in the news: Imagine if NATO just said one day, "y…

Speaking of impulsive, I didn't realize he fired the top exists for-cause blowing up their golden parachutes:

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/elon-musk-fired-twi...

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by ssully »

bombcar wrote: post #119
ssully wrote: post #93

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Of course it offers him value, but Stephen King being on the platform is more valuable to Twitter than it is for King.

I wonder if that's actually true - if it is, King should go make his own Twitter-like thing.

I think King is better served by continuing to write and live his life.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by trh0awayman »

I would pay $10 a month for Twitter Black - it would block everyone with Twitter Blue and you get to interact with the dregs, the most controversial figures of all of Twitter, based on most reports/blocks/flags, etc. (minus the bots, crypto stuff).

That's the real town square. Let me sleep in the gutter!

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by fluidcruft »

croes wrote: post #142
fluidcruft wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm getting a chuckle thinking about Elon as ThePirateBay and Stephen King as the MPAA.

Since when does ThePirateBay demand a fee and the MPAA says it's too high?

Exactly. That's why its so ridiculous.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by ljw1001 »

I think this worked well.

Instead of conversation about how Elon would use twitter to undermine democracy, civil discourse, whatever, everyone is talking about what’s a fair price to pay him to undermine democracy, civil discourse, whatever.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by gonehome »

danpalmer wrote: post #75
gonehome wrote: post #41

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I was really hoping for no ads! Huge bummer on that front.

Just use an unofficial Twitter client! I do wonder whether their days are numbered though. I can see it going one of two ways – full ban of all third party clients, or a far more open API. Musk is so unpredictable, both would appear to fit his viewpoints on these things.

I've tried multiple times and they're just bad imo.
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