Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees
Billionaire also says platform has 550 million monthly users generating up to 200m posts a day
Do it. Kill it once and for all.
Yeah, hoping is entourage of Yes Men makes him believe this is the best decision ever.
Crowd's chanting: "Do it! Do it! Do it!"
I mean either he's just the stupidest or this is all intentional and he wanted to kill Twitter in the first place. Either way, fudge him and his weird face.
Not if his intention was the latter. Finally he does something good.
Twitter was fine before he took over. It had its issues, sure, but it’s nowhere near the dumpster fire it is because of Musk.
It’s already out that Musk’s sole purpose was to get “wokeness” out of Twitter. It seems that his intention was to do so by any means necessary, including the death of Twitter.
I was fairly content with Twitter pre-Muskrat. Now I want it to die. And I don’t see this as any particular good that Musk is doing, quite the opposite. He has a selfish, narcissistic agenda and has the money to back it up. The only thing I’m thankful for is that the piece of shit can’t be President of the US. But sadly we have plenty of other US-born, moronic, narcissistic pieces of shit working toward that goal again.
I don’t think he’s smart enough to stick the landing on anything. Based on the new biography, it sounds like he’s just mad at his daughter over “wokeism”.
It's a great way to make people migrate from Twitter, now X, to some other platform like Mastodon that works like Twitter, now X, but doesn't have to pay a fee or have an unstable billionaire handling the platform like Twitter, now X.
So tired of hearing about this moronic war criminal every day. Wake me up when he's behind bars.
I believe there is a browser extension that lets you block posts about rich people, in case you truly dont give a fuck about their endeavours. I dont remember its name but you could certainly use it
This is gold Jerry! Gold!
As funny as this is, this is a good opportunity to remind everyone: if you can afford to kick a few bucks to your instance maintainer, do so. This will help to prevent them from feeling the need to generate income from your instance using other means.
Ugh, the daily dumb thoughts from rich people.
Literally no way this could go tits up!
Looking at Unity and thought “I could do you one better”.
I remember there used to be an idea floating around of paying pennies for sending email a few years ago. It would combat spam, since it would not be economically viable to send millions of emails. It failed; since it would kill email, no-one wanted to pay and lock access rights to a certain group of people.
Elon is claiming he wants this for combating bots and scraping. Whether true or not, he will realize soon enough though that people will not pay for it. (Perhaps even find out it's not bots, but actual people downvoting him)
(At the same time, it's a bad thing we do not want to pay for good journalism/info, it leads to free ad-riddled sites with shitty click-baity content. The good stuff is behind paywalls, and therefore not available to the general public. This leads to a breeding ground for conspiracy theories. Since those are available for free (they want the message out there) and the actual researched stuff is hidden behind those paywals)
Oh, Br’er Musk, I don’t care what you do with me, so long as you just don’t throw me in that briar patch over there.
Deep cut from the vault…
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Speaking in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, the Tesla CEO and world’s richest person suggested that X was going to charge its user base.
Currently, Twitter only charges users for its subscription service X Premium, which offers perks such as a verified account checkmark and costs $11 a month in the US for iPhones and £11 in the UK.
Musk, who has a history of making impromptu statements, did not confirm whether X would definitely push ahead with a charging policy.
Musk has raised the prospect of a paywall as the platform battles an entrenched decline in advertising, its main source of income.
Musk has said an advertiser boycott, spurred by concerns over his leadership of the platform and its management of inappropriate or hateful content, has caused ad revenue to decline by 60%.
Netanyahu said he hoped Musk would find ways within the confines of the first amendment to clamp down on antisemitism and other forms of hatred on X.
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