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it's official: tweets will be sunk to the bottom unless author pays subscription
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Twitter user growth is at “all-time highs” under Elon Musk
So far, Twitter hasn’t seen a mass exodus due to Musk.
www.theverge.com
So what does the advertiser thing mean? Is it all "My Pillow" ads now because there is nothing else left to run or are there actually FEWER ads because folks paid for X number of spots and now there are unfilled ones? 'Cause I imagine twitter is kinda like late night TV now, just the same couple of ads run over and over, the folks supporting twitter now are making a KILLING with viewership.
It's asking if it will bring the advertisers back.
Cyberpunkd
Member
Twitter user growth is at “all-time highs” under Elon Musk
So far, Twitter hasn’t seen a mass exodus due to Musk.
TaylorSwiftFan
Member
You’ll be getting ads for the Disney+ price. The non-ads version is $11.For $8 a month, I could:
Get Disney Plus, and watch a bunch Star Wars, Marvel, and classic Disney content.
Get Hulu, and watch a bunch of movies and television programs.
Get Twitter, and watch a bunch of people call each other racists and degenerates.
Well it seems some have already paid for them.
pramod
Banned
Ha ha ha. Get fucked Elon
No way in hell I’m paying to use that hellsite. He’s going to bury the fucking thing completely if he does this.
You don't have to pay to read or even post tweets.
LegendOfKage
Member
True. The prices I listed are for the ad-supported version of all three services. The last I heard about it, a Twitter subscription will feature reduced ads rather than no ads.
Vestal
Junior Member
Imagine if GAF gold had a similar effect here.. Where the "cool kids" discuss in the main very visible area, while the "free-loaders" responses are much less visible throughout the thread and thus get less engagement and or attention.
All of these platforms are there for people to engage with others. If he starts putting restrictions or hurdles on that engagement, then he can't really say that he is full on hard for "free speech". Since he is prioritizing paid speech over free speech. (pun not intended)
PS.. FFS nobody get offended by the "cool kids" and "free loaders" reference.. Added the snobbyness for effect.
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nush
Member
It's just like paying for boosts on dating apps, except for these people they get something better than sex. Attention, validation and a badge.
pramod
Banned
Tweets dont work like forums at all.Imagine if GAF gold had a similar effect here.. Where the "cool kids" discuss in the main very visible area, while the "free-loaders" responses are much less visible throughout the thread and thus get less engagement and or attention.
All of these platforms are there for people to engage with others. If he starts putting restrictions or hurdles on that engagement, then he can't really say that he is full on hard for "free speech". Since he is prioritizing paid speech over free speech. (pun not intended)
PS.. FFS nobody get offended by the "cool kids" and "free loaders" reference.. Added the snobbyness for effect.
I know Elon haters are trying to come up with everything under the sun to bash him, but this is getting kinda pathetic.
Vestal
Junior Member
The overall principal is the same.. All of these platforms basic principal is user engagement between each other. This is a very sharp shift for a platform that portrayed itself as a public square and didn't put monetary barriers/handicaps on user engagement.
FYI.. Personally, I don't care if Twitter fails or not.. Never really used the platform outside of a news app.
This whole thing will be an interesting case study in the future. Who knows, maybe he pulls a rabbit out of his ass. But all the information coming out the last two weeks, sounds like an absolute train wreck..
Slicker than your average
Banned
Twitter wasn't great but this clown is only doing this because he's a butt hurt child like a certain somebody.
Nobody wants to pay for this garbage; he'll kill it through his clown ideas and when he fails he'll say it was what he meant to do.
Imagine using 44 billion for something useful, not a crappy social media platform so you can crack jokes.
Nobody wants to pay for this garbage; he'll kill it through his clown ideas and when he fails he'll say it was what he meant to do.
Imagine using 44 billion for something useful, not a crappy social media platform so you can crack jokes.
ReBurn
Gold Member
I mean they got the tick mark so nobody could impersonate them, then they turn around and abuse the platform to impersonate someone else. I don't blame Twitter for locking this down.
ThatStupidLion
Member
Eh - ive felt this way all along. Twitters most useful if youre an active mouthpiece already. Journos, celebs, etc. no real reason for your average joe to tweet or do anything else on it other than follow mouthpieces.
Yep. If it's not like this already it should be.
natjjohn
Member
I am pretty sure none of that is required to be “verified.”
It is, I posted this earlier in the thread. https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twitter-verified-accounts
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Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Imagine if GAF gold had a similar effect here.. Where the "cool kids" discuss in the main very visible area, while the "free-loaders" responses are much less visible throughout the thread and thus get less engagement and or attention.
All of these platforms are there for people to engage with others. If he starts putting restrictions or hurdles on that engagement, then he can't really say that he is full on hard for "free speech". Since he is prioritizing paid speech over free speech. (pun not intended)
PS.. FFS nobody get offended by the "cool kids" and "free loaders" reference.. Added the snobbyness for effect.
Most people on Twitter aren't verified. It is commonly known and an open meme that verified accounts are fucking retards 9 times out of 10. If you have a checkmark, you are a dumbass.
This literally won't affect most people.
natjjohn
Member
That’s old verification I believe and not the $8 feature. That’s delayed I believe also
There has been no news of a change to verification other than charging a fee.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I'm barely on Twitter but I agree with Mr. Brownlee
Tams
Member
I do wonder how this will play out.
I don't tweet (unless someone is going to give me free shit for it), and I don't care about my social standing there. I only watch it for mild amusement (mainly Russian orcs meeting their maker).
Most people's tweets are just out into the ether as it is. No one cares about them. On one hand, I guess the illusion that it's 'fair' and that you have chance attracts people. On the other hand, the vast majority of people are going to be just as insignificant as before.
I don't tweet (unless someone is going to give me free shit for it), and I don't care about my social standing there. I only watch it for mild amusement (mainly Russian orcs meeting their maker).
Most people's tweets are just out into the ether as it is. No one cares about them. On one hand, I guess the illusion that it's 'fair' and that you have chance attracts people. On the other hand, the vast majority of people are going to be just as insignificant as before.
LegendOfKage
Member
Great video! All discussion was about potential for the platform and constructive suggestions, which is by far the most interesting point of discussion IMO.
Hero of Spielberg
Member
If you're really that desperate to get noticed on Twitter just fork out the $8 a month.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
Anything that speeds the death of that shit hole is a win to me.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Edit: already posted!
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FunkMiller
Member
It baffles me how Elon hasn't made this very simple and very obvious calculation:
Claim you're improving free speech = assholes post rancid shit = advertisers run a mile = collapse of social media platform.
...with a healthy side order of hypocrisy when that free speech takes the piss out of you.
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
Cool, let it burn.
Mistake
Member
Pretty sure that would have happened anyway, even if he said nothing, because he’s not bezos and on the wrong team
Yep, he has changed no rules on what is allowed to say on the platform. Why are all the boycotts and advertisers pulling out?
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
The speaking is free the distribution cost money.
Mistake
Member
Activists harassing them and talking shit. It’s an old tactic used to hurt the revenue of people they don’t like. Basically 10 people message X company saying “so and so has a history of bigotry and we’re going to boycott you if you do business together.” The company either tucks tail or has their own diversity department and agrees.
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Because there's people who think that because Elon saying "free speech from now on" means "oh yes! We get to say every racial slur, every ethnic slur, every religious slur, every -ism/-ist slur and we can't get cancelled for it!"
Usage of slurs on Twitter went up by a lot once Elon took over.
If advertisers don't want to be associated with a platform that allows all that... That's what happens. They leave. That's why most don't advertise on platforms like Gab or Parler ... They don't want to LOOK like the bad guy BECAUSE those sites and others allow those kinds of words and phrases. If you're an absolutist, own it and let everything run wild!
It's the dumbest thing ever for anyone to associate advertisements to user generated content. I believe this is a Bullshit excuse inorder for Advertisers to force their views and control the platform.
