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Asking as someone who doesn't care about social media at all, and has never used Facebook or Twitter, except for clicking the occasional link to some tweet.
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That's the core problem with this approach. Elon and others have the idea in their head that Twitter is a social graph where people come to interact with each other, and everyone is relatively equal. So every user paying $X/mo to solidify their place in the graph makes some conceptual sense. In reality Twitter is more akin to YouTube than Facebook. A tiny percentage of users are creators while the vast majority are c…
> In reality Twitter is more akin to YouTube than Facebook. There is a very big difference between Twitter and YouTube, and it's obvious once you know it. Look at the most popular people on twitter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitte... All celebrities outside of twitter. Then look at YouTube: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouT... Almost all made famous by YouTube.…
What is this going to solve? Blue checkmarks was intended to find the real public person instead of thousand scammers. If it now means that you have paid for account, then what is the point? This is not going to help their finances either. Someone [1] did a calculation: "If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter… Twitter’s current revenues (mostly fr…
Why assume that only current checkmark holders would pay? I'm sure there are many more who wish they had a checkmark who would pay. Overall, I have no idea if it's a winning strategy, but I think this analysis undersells the potential.
I think your analysis oversells the potential.
General question, There is so much toxicity in Twitter (even on Linkedin) and very little sane conversation (May be not just twitter, many social networks in general). For example recently saw someone post with POTUS on some ground breaking work on Immunotherapy for cancer (this was their 8 year research), replies and comments were outright bad to vulgar (did he smell your hair! went one). Mind you this was not a 4th…
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Sure, but that small number of people are already famous outside of twitter. YouTube and TikTok creates new celebrities, twitter doesn't.
Red Scare and Chapo Trap House are niche media brands, but their hosts are new celebrities who got famous primarily through Twitter.
I don't care much about Twitter, I didn't like the way the platform was policed, I didn't like the sheer amount of bots and for sure I didn't like the limit on text messages. But it seems reasonable for an app having payd and free tiers, with the free tiers being add supported. Somehow the app has to pay bills and staff. If I'll find Twitter of any use at some point in time, I will pay $8 if that will yield some bene…
“Are you poor? Then, shut up”
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Stephen King’s tweet on that topic, to summarize: “ $20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.” https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1587042605627490304?s...
Reminds me of all the people who swear up and down they're moving to Canada or Europe after the latest disappointment in the voting booth. They never do. Musk may or may not charge his $20, but King will pay it if he does, he's bluffing.
Meanwhile, platform dying cause people left is something that happened many times already. Usually they don't leave with one bang and they won't here. It happens over months slowly.
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I think the point still stands. 6 of the top 10 on Youtube got their large followings being making content for Youtube. 0% of the top 50 on Twitter are primarily known for their tweets.
> 0% of the top 50 on Twitter are primarily known for their tweets. Why limit yourself to the top 50? 0% of all Twitter users are primarily known for their tweets. Tweets are, by design, unsuitable for publishing content. They're useful for advertising content you publish somewhere else.
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Since when does ThePirateBay demand a fee and the MPAA says it's too high?
I don’t think the price is what bugs him so much as the newly-diminished elite status of the blue check.
You'd think the Elon, having a notable and active Twitter account, would realize how bad it is even with those measures in place.
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Unclear why this is getting downvoted, it is accurate statement. Only 20 of the top 50 channels are not brands. Of those 20 if you exclude music channels like BTS, Blackpink, Justin Bieber, etc. you're only left with 10 channels.
Justin Bieber literally got his start from YouTube. BTS and Black pink would also not be as popular as they are without YouTube. The original comment was a bit miseleading, but you have to admit that there is no equivalent to Pewdiepie on Twitter.
They would still be popular though.
YouTube hasn't even been that popular in South Korea until recently.