I’m not willing to use it now, for free… not sure if this plan will incentivize me to join up.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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I'll tell you next week when I stop laughing.
I'm not opposed to paying for services I enjoy/find value in, and from companies I don't dislike
Twitter does not pass these guidelines
I wasn't even using it when it was free!
I don't use Twitter for free
Me too. But I have no problems with them penalizing the idiots that still remain.
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At this point, I have to conclude that Musk is actively trying to kill Twitter.
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I suspect the majority of people who would pay for twitter already are.
And it's a laughably low amount.
Someone posted a few weeks ago that it's like 60,000 people who are blue checked and not getting it for free.
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I'm not even willing to use it for free 💀
I'd be willing to use it if I get paid though. 10$/month and I'd even post something once in a while.
Twitter ad sales have plunged 50% since he bought the company
Can't imagine why.... Nope
Oh yes, certainly. Wow Mr Musk you’re such a genius and good decision maker, please start charging for Twitter. Please don’t listen to the naysayers and go ahead with the brilliant business strategy. I’m definitely not taking delight in your constant series of self-owns.
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I wouldn't use twitter if they paid me
I would pay them for a product that suppresses all news about Elon musk so i dont have to read about him every other day. Now that's a growth market.
I hate twitter!
Use mastodon.
Twitter has just gotten worse and worse!
Use mastodon.
If only there were some other platform!
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Here's the thing - you don't need either of them
and you don’t need lemmy/kbin either, but yknow we like it
what’s your point?
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Whilst I mostly agree with you, what I use Twitter for, and now Mastodon, is to get real-time updates on projects and events. I follow projects like Asahi Linux (where devs post updates from their personal accounts), or various service providers or trending hashtags to get real-time updates on events, such as say an M365 outage, a zero day vulnerability, or a natural disaster (eg: earthquakes). Sure, there are other sites as well that report on events, but these sites mostly get their updates from Twitter (and not having an account on it would exclude you from participating). Thanks to Twitter, I've been able to interact directly with developers, netsec folks, organisations and just randoms from across the world - all of which, has been convenient to do so via a single platform. It's kinda hard to replicate that sort of interaction across other platforms.
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I refused to use this cancerous hellsite long before its 'fall' what makes you think I want to use it now?
I’d be willing to pay $100/month for it. Please charge at least that much!
Pay no attention to the fact that I used it once for like a week 15 years ago. That’s only because it was too free!
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A monthly fee seems idiotic but yes please do it! Please!
That said I think a $5 signup fee on Mastodon or Lemmy that is not refunded if you get banned would seriously help stop bots. They only make pennies per bot and if you make their cost even minimally painful the economics fall apart.
It would also stop most regular users from signing up. This kind of stuff being free has just become the norm.
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I wouldn't be willing to use if I was getting paid.
I don't use fascist websites at all, I'm certainly not going to pay for one. Come now.
We have reached the point where I want answers from any person or organization that is still active on twitter. They are actively legitimizing nazis. If you are on twitter, you are part of the problem. I’m not gonna draw lines around which people on a right wing reactionary platform are the “good ones” any more.
One more wave for Mastodon for sure.
I hope he actually does this. Twitter will die almost immediately and become completely worthless.
Then he can file bankruptcy and not have to pay back the loans he took out to buy Twitter
I think it's all his plan. Naming it X was the big red flag for me
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No, Twitter/X always been shit. Yes even before Elon Musk became the CTO. It was awful under Jack Dorsey.
It was actually a lot of fun for alt comedy and staying in touch with friends 10-15 years ago. Once Trump won in 2016 it turned into a nonstop tire fire with him pouring kerosene on it daily. It never completely recovered from that, and obviously it’s gotten far far worse under Elon. That’s when I finally had to cut ties, even if it’s been fading for years.
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If you want a free (in all its meanings) platform to speak on just use Mastodon
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Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder!
You would have to pay me, for me to be there
I think this marks the true end of twitter. Undoubtedly, some people will literally pay to have ol' muskys thoughts shoved in their face and get their data collected, see garbage alt-right memes but if he fails, if he can't even make it a premium-feeling cult experience now... (which obviously his vision, but let's be real it's a longshot- he's only gonna be a clown) I don't see it lasting much longer.
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The real question is how much would I accept in payment to use Twitter. It's probably not a lot, but it surely is not negative.
lol. He is just stirring the pot. It’s what he does. I recommend ignoring him and just using something else. It is either going to sink or not.
Ex-twitter seems to me to be going in a disjointed “by the seat of the pants” direction. It’s like a kid playing with his new toy. “My toy, I make the rules and I don’t care what you think.”
The thing is, it technically is his toy. It is not a global square. It is a private company. I take issue with what has been going on, but my opinions are irrelevant to the situation.
YES, I will absolutely pay for X every month! Greatest idea he’s ever had.
Yes to the polls, but no chance in hell
I hate Musk because as an artist there are many artist on twitter (X) that I really like. One of it is Naoki Saito & Mika Pikazo and then some useful things likes pose maniac to help out artist to get pose ideas. A lot of Japanese makes oneshot or it's continuous story manga on twitter. The reason why I stay a little longer because of the artist of twitter but now I will slowly drift away on twitter.
They should at least be double posting to Twitter and Mastodon.
You don't lose reach by posting to more places.
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Urgh why is this "technology"
It all sounds like "Dude is thinking about maybe making changes on some thing ..."
But yeah from now on I'll just downvote.
For this money I would rather donate, pay for membership or create my own Mastodon instance.
I am so tired of seeing this goon on my feed
I wouldn't use Twitter even if it was the one paying ME
I would sooner chew on glass than pay for Twitter.
Hell. No.
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