Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall

I can't get over the fact that this is the guy who was supposed to be some kind of tech genius.

Just fucking do it.

Maybe then other media will finally stop reporting shit like
"Person Z said Y on X (formerly Twitter)."

This is a great idea. Do it!

Please kill it harder

Yes please. Do it.

Who in their right mind would pay for a dying social media platform? This reeks of desperation from a man trying to convince himself of his own supposed public image.

I think it’s a great move Elon, charge $100 a month base price to keep the riff raft out, and then offer packages going up to $10,000 a month that allow people to post. I really, truly, seriously think you should do this!

He said creating such a system is “the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots

Lol the fucking “bots” again.

Great idea. I definitely support this decision.

Do it.

You won’t.

No balls.

Please DO

Yes, do it then everyone will move to mastodon and we can finally forget about twitter (x) existence

Dew it!

Oh thank God, then we can all finally move on and stop talking about it.

I don't hate what Twitter used to be. I never engaged with it much myself, but it was a fantastic tool for progressive organizations to network and mobilize, and the loss of that will genuinely hurt us all.

But at this point, that tool is already on life support. Better for it to die outright so that people find a new way to do those things x rather than this endless half life it's now trapped in.

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

God I hope his checkmark followers gaslight him into doing this

Why do the most pathetic of people make the news so often?

He could've spent money building his own Twitter and leave us be but instead he had to go and waste 44+billion to cause harm and damage and destroy a company with employees making a living. It goes without saying he is just such a shit, vile and evil person.

Stop feeding this guy.

Do it DOOOOO IT DOOO IIIIT DO IT DO IT ~read in Lucy's voice

I will pay you money to do it, Elon.

I pray this bumbling moron actually does it.

Edit: spelling. Apparently I’m a bumbling moron too.

just putting it behind a login screen was catastrophic by itself... just saying

Twitter is dead in 2024 if not by the end of the year.

Do it..The ring commands you to do so.

Good, then all the actually normal people will leave and Elon will have his echo chamber

Do it, you cuck.

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Certainly gives him a good way to limit social media as we approach the new election cycle.

This supports the model that he's intentionally driving the platform into the ground.

Although I would not at all be surprised if he really is that stupid.

At a press conference today, Musk was quoted as saying:

Look at me. Look at me. Please, God, I need people to be paying attention to me and validating me all the time. Ever since I fucked it up with my hot goth gf I've been an absolute mess of transparent attempts to remain relevant. I tried to gain your approval by doing what I guessed would be cool guy shit like going on stage with Dave Chappelle and yelling at you small people about how rich I am. I did the meme thing with the fake money and the fun monkey pictures. I spent billions evading your blocks on Twitter. I give up. You don't have to love me. No one will ever love me. But I need you to always be looking at me.

Musk then produced an acoustic guitar and began to play a cover of Matchbox 20's "Push". According to reports, the entrepreneur who used his slave-generated wealth to build a private space program was on the verge of tears and within shouting distance of the key as he sang the line "Don't just stand there/say nice things to me/cuz I've been cheated and I've been wronged".

I honestly can't figure out what he is thinking: is he trying to kill of twitter because he doesn't care about it, or does he honestly belief that this will make good money? I feel like i'm watching a bouncing ball in a small room, you never know which way he goes next

Please do! Then we can post pictures of "X marks the spot of Twitter's grave"

I'm supposed to be the random idiot here, Musk.

Stop stealing my shtick.

If that doesn’t finally kill off Twitter, I honestly don’t know what will.

Hes worth 200 billion. God! I cant believe someone can actually have that kinda money and people in some part of the world can't afford a meal. If I had 200 billion , I would create X2 , will be called xtwice, just for shits and giggle. May be that's what he's doing.

Given how he's been doing things recently, you can expect a paywall to be added by next week sometime

Good.

The sooner Twitter dies, the sooner we can see which alternative rises to fill the gap.

I stay on twitter to read content from people that are hard to reach. This get my account flagged as spam and locked every other day. At this point, using the service is considered spam in itself, so it's no wonder he want to end it.

I switched to Bluesky a few weeks ago and it's so much better than Twitter. It's a smaller number of people but the vibe is generally positive (plus half the posts aren't ads).
Honestly it feels like Twitter did 10 years ago.

Good. How soon?

Please?

I would pay as much as I need to. I can't live without twitter!!!! ^/s

How fucking grand would it be if this cunt bought fox “news”?

Musk: Twitter is already pretty fucked since I took over but I want to finish the job...

"“the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots."

He's able to think, and he's all alone thinking and coding twitter all by himself

What a hero

At some point you got to start believing that Musk is still pissed they forced him to but twitter, so now he's trying his best to destroy it.

Coming next week on Proof That We Don't Live In A Meritocracy News:

Elon Musk says he might rename X to 🍆💦.com

And indeed anything else that keeps his odd shaped face in the news.

That is the point where I'd well and truly delete my account.

Elon Musk's buyout to me was an elaborate Twitter shitpost which went horribly wrong when their board forced him to actually go through with the deal. But if Musk thinks I'll pay money to use The App Formerly Known As Twitter, he's having a laugh. My profile have a grand total of 33 followers and almost all my posts only get interacted with by phishing scammers and spam bots pushing OnlyFans pages. I'd be better off just writing my thoughts into a Notepad file since nobody's going to read them anyways.

Not sure why X is like this. It's honestly been a problem with Twitter long before Elon Musk bought them out and it almost feels like I'm shadowbanned on the site for whatever reason. Twitter to me is a platform that only really felt useful if I wanted to follow a celebrity and it's for that reason that I never felt a need to subscribe to Blue.

Part of me wanted to stick around to the bitter end with a cup of soda and bowl of popcorn, because I thought it'd be entertaining to watch Elon Musk piss away sixty billion dollars, drive Twitter to the ground and then attempt to sue the ultra rich tech oligarchs who sold him the site. But this is just fucking depressing.

We are in a day and age where Threads will end up being the largest (non-Chinese) microblogging platform, despite being even more barebones than your typical Mastodon instance and lacking both hashtags and trending topics.

X is one of several reasons (the other being dating sites) why I well and truly subscribe to the dead internet theory.

Elon Musk and Twitter destroying each other is the best long term storytelling I've seen in a long time.

Imagine paying money to post dumb thoughts on the Internet. Ha.

What a wonderful idea!

Do it. All creators I like will finally jump ship, because there's 0 reason to post about your new video, merch launch, etc. to only paying members.

Yes please!

Oh no! Anyway...

That's cool, I was done with it anyway.

dude got duped while overpaying an extra 20B$ for an app and now wants to redeem the losses on top of the users: makes all the sense

good, let it die

Do you remember when I said I would kill Twitter last? I lied.

I don't care what he does with it at this point.

"People are mean, and I need a safe place for my free speech" - E. Musty, probably.

Paywall.. quanrantine.. same thing.

I think pretty much everyone now ses that he is not as smart as people thought. But doesn't have any sense of self-preservation? He invested so much in Twitter, just to run it into ground by suicidal moves. Everyone uses Twitter? No, no more embedded tweets in all the sites. Ok, someone still uses it? Let's start charging. WTF?

Granted he's backing into this stupidly, and I can't imagine he'll do this right.

But the basic idea of transitioning away from the ad model toward a user funded model is a good move.

I'd go with something where people can create accounts and follow others for free. Then posting rights cost $5 per year. With an additional $5 for every 5000 followers you get.

That way X can monotize people with hundreds of thousands and millions of followers. At that level, accounts become businesses on their own. A few promotional posts would easily pay for the account.

Dew it

Honestly who didn't see this coming?

As much as people here laugh - because yes, I get that it's very unlikely to work - I actually think this would be better for users than the ad-based model most social media use now.

Well, this was the last drop for me. Kept the account in case I needed to communicate with some local companies who responded quite fast on that network. He ain't charging a damn thing from me. That's for sure.

oh no ne wa

Sure, it will bring more users!

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What a terrible idea.

I want this to happen. It would be hilarious

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At first I just adore for what accomplishment he have in his life, but after he acquired X I see much more drama in this guy. Whatever it is, I just believed that he run his business all out.

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