Regardless of Elon. It's not a bad idea. Small fee for immediate engagement (posting), or wait 3 months. It should not be an annual fee though in that case, it would be a one time fee.
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BRILLIANT! Can't make money selling clickbait? Charge your customers to use it. And STILL flood them with whatever ghetto clickbait you can scare up. Too bad Mike Lindell is broke. And if you give X your credit card, you're asking for it. Musk could screw up a one car funeral. What a twit(er).
I approve of this message. Anything to slow down bots and fake accounts is fine with me.
Twitter has always had its flaws even long before Elon came along, but its strength has always been a lack of barriers. It was bad enough when Musk introduced his new blue check system making it a two-tiered platform where those who pay get their posts promoted and seen by more people. Making it that you have to pay to post at all, even a small amount, silences voices.
Just like the paid "verification" system was supposed to? I don't know about you, but I'm encountering more spam bots than ever, most of them with blue checkmarks.
They have made great progress on that platform with regards to fake accounts, internal bias within the company etc. X is so much better than Twitter, it's really night and day.
But it'll never be perfect.
Still, it's 100% more effort than all the other main socials combined... ten times over.
Go Buck Yourself.
Seriously though, it's too much and not enough. If I were to reconsider participating on Twitter/X I would like to be ID verified AND have a setting that only showed ID verified content and allowed only ID verified users to see, like and reply to my posts. I don't care if it limits my reach. Who cares about "reach" when you're just reaching out into a dumpster
Seriously though, it's too much and not enough. If I were to reconsider participating on Twitter/X I would like to be ID verified AND have a setting that only showed ID verified content and allowed only ID verified users to see, like and reply to my posts. I don't care if it limits my reach. Who cares about "reach" when you're just reaching out into a dumpster
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$1 is way too puny. Raise the price for a premium _Bentley_ account. 🍸😹 extra for Bentley auto (bot) posting🍸😺
Every decision? Way more freedom of speech on the platform and community notes is pretty excellent.
The previous leadership was dystopian creepy.
If you still use Twitter in 2024, the chump here is you 🤷♂️
Seriously. It’s $1 at signup or wait 3 months.
There’s subreddits that don’t even let you post until you reach 30 days active with karma points and such for a sub that’s not even that great.
They already charge to make your account public.
Dumb.
I already left X and I am not going back.
Dumb.
I already left X and I am not going back.
Every step of the way, I still think he's trying everything he can to drive that terrible purchase into the ground so he can dump all his debts into it, wash his hands of it and then defend himself from the SEC with a "I really tried everything I could think of to make it efficient & profitable".
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
You can shove it, Elon. I’ve deleted your App from my iPhone.
Musk has destroyed Twitter. Not only is there an advertisement every 5 post, now you have to pay for each post? Goodbye.
I keep thinking about Myspace. I can't believe whatever plonker owns it is sitting on it trying to make it some kind of internal music industry band promo hub. If there ever was an opportunity to make a social media network that doesn't suck, it's right now. Facebook is dead, Twidder is free-falling out of the sky on fire, and according to user polls practically everyone hates instagram but feels obligated to be on it because there's no alternative. Practically everyone agrees that what they liked was what all popular social media services started out as: simple, minimal, straightforward service where you could go, see a concise feed of what your friends & family were posting, share short and sweet text, pics & videos publicly or privately. No algorithm-driven promoted content, no insane content ownership policies, no big data collection & selling, no pornbots, no popup ads, no autoplaying video ads, no interaction maximizing, no addictive design, no endless scroll no tiered access or paid account BS.
MySpace stepped away long enough ago after junking up their own service that they are in a unique position to make a fresh start & build what people actually want, and with that brand name cache. & to the noobs that weren't around, that name is still better, more personal than any of these other bland corporate sounding names. It's a perfect name for a personal social media service. Sell one space for a banner ad across the bottom to pay for it. To keep it human, verify your posts with your devices biometric approval just like an appstore purchase. Keep it sane. Operate within your budget, dont go public & get caught up in the desperation of relying on infinite growth to attract gambler $.
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Yeah, I wonder from where all those comments come from:
- “It’s like he wants it to fail!”
- “People use Twitter?”
- “Musk is a chump”
- “Musk is broke”
- “Twitter is done”
- “People left Twitter”
- (And many hundreds more clones of the above)
Do people have some information as to how they arrived to the comment and/or conclusion?
It’s been 2 full years since Twitter got acquired and it was supposed to fail the day after that: 2 years minus one day ago according to the internet.
Maybe the quality has gone down, I don’t really use Twitter myself so it looks the same to me, but is it going really failing and going bankrupt? People really left?
And left to where? (Social junkies/addicts hardly leave from the space itself)