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Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Re: Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Post by giancarlostoro »

mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

Fully agree, I just wish I knew who these people are, because clearly he has looked at some data that suggests they'll pay up, or his hosting costs will be significantly lowered.

Re: Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Post by jeffbee »

randlet wrote: post #28
1270018080 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Re: Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Post by croes »

HeavyFeather wrote: post #25
bydo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

He isn't complaining about the 20 bucks but the subscription as such.

Twitter needs celebreties more than celebreties need a blue check mark

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Post by Finnucane »

mike_d wrote: post #24

All 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…

Except that Fox is profitable, and it isn’t clear how much musk is willing or able to pay out of his own pocket for the privilege. I don’t think he planned for that.

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Post by Xeoncross »

jeffbee wrote: post #32
randlet wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Yeah, but that had a different top-level comment

Re: Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Post by Finnucane »

HeavyFeather wrote: post #25
bydo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

He knows he’s worth more than that to Twitter.

Re: Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Post by code_runner »

harvey9 wrote: post #19
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

I think Twitter will sell your attention in addition to other revenue streams, given the chance.

They’ll chase anything that makes money but if the ONLY source of money is our attention etc… that’s a worse spot right?

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Post by codetrotter »

croes wrote: post #29
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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?

> When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?

Never.

Having a business in the capitalist system is about maximising profits.

Musk spent ~$44bn USD or so to buy Twitter (and tried to back out of the deal too). Do you really think Twitter is gonna fairly compensate any of the users any time soon?

You’d be better off migrating to Mastodon. Maybe some instance in that ecosystem will figure out how to use crypto for good, and to compensate its content creators.

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