Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
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Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
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Re: Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
#2I'm glad to support independent journalism while gaining ad-free access to quality content on a platform I frequent.
Re: Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
#3As someone who was an initial skeptic when this was first announced, I really appreciate what twitter is trying to do with Blue, especially around direct payments to publishers. Any step to get the internet off of the ad-based data-harvesting revenue model is ultimately better for almost all parties.
Re: Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
#4I'm glad to support independent journalism while gaining ad-free access to quality content on a platform I frequent.
I love engaging with brands!
Re: Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
#5I'm glad to support independent journalism while gaining ad-free access to quality content on a platform I frequent.
Ideally you'd also get ad-free access to Twitter itself, which I would certainly consider paying for. Considering the annual per-user revenue is ~ 12USD [1], this seems like something that would be financially interesting to Twitter.
[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/forecast-of-the-day%3A-twitt...
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#6As someone who was an initial skeptic when this was first announced, I really appreciate what twitter is trying to do with Blue, especially around direct payments to publishers. Any step to get the internet off of the ad-based data-harvesting revenue model is ultimately better for almost all parties.
Who said the data-harvesting would stop?
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#7I'm glad to support independent journalism while gaining ad-free access to quality content on a platform I frequent.
Ideally you'd also get ad-free access to Twitter itself, which I would certainly consider paying for. Considering the annual per-user revenue is ~ 12USD [1], this seems like something that would be financially interesting to Twitter. [1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/forecast-of-the-day%3A-twitt...
The average across all users is $12, but I suspect the average over people willing to pay for Blue is likely higher than that.
It's can be a Catch-22 in some cases. The same people most willing to pay to opt-out are the ones most coveted by advertisers.
Re: Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
#8I'm glad to support independent journalism while gaining ad-free access to quality content on a platform I frequent.
Ideally you'd also get ad-free access to Twitter itself, which I would certainly consider paying for. Considering the annual per-user revenue is ~ 12USD [1], this seems like something that would be financially interesting to Twitter. [1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/forecast-of-the-day%3A-twitt...
That's worldwide. Their revenue per US user from ads is $4/month. Selling an ad-free subscription for $3/month can't work for them just from those numbers, and it gets worse when you consider that Apple will be taking 30% of the latter but not the former.
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#9Can they let us pay to remove all sponsored tweets? That's all I want. I'd gladly pay $10/mo.
YouTube Red is the best product experience, and it's something I would pay to have elsewhere.
I hate ads. I never buy products from ads. They just distract me.
I'd pay $1000/yr for a completely ad-free Google. (No search result ads, no AMP, no "McDonalds" in Google Maps, ...)
Re: Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
#10This seems eerily similar to what people feared could happen to the web in the absence of net neutrality, only with the role of the ISP this time replaced by a platform content referrer. A multi-tiered web: premium lanes for corporate sponsors with money changing hands.
>"On iOS and desktop, Twitter Blue members will enjoy a fast-loading, ad-free reading experience when they visit many of their favorite news sites available in the US from Twitter, such as The Washington Post, L.A. Times, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, Reuters, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, Insider and The Hollywood Reporter."