Ownage
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If it fails it'll be an epic tax write-off for his other businesses.
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it's official: tweets will be sunk to the bottom unless author pays subscription
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Grildon Tundy
Gold Member
I'm with Omega on this one. "Elongated Muskrat" sounds like a toothless nickname-by-committee that A group makes up in hopes it goes viral. In short, seems very forced. See: the Donald "Ducks" his taxes campaign from back in 2016
Punished Miku
Gold Member
You're taking me way too seriously. I just wanted to post a cat gif. Sometimes innocents get caught in the crossfire, but that's the price we pay for comedy.
What? Its not funny. Do you think it is? I also said the whole enterprise can sink so I'm not sure where I'm "triggered"
dr_octagon
Banned
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
It's hard to tell these days. Weirdos everywhere.You're taking me way too seriously. I just wanted to post a cat gif. Sometimes innocents get caught in the crossfire, but that's the price we pay for comedy.
ManaByte
Gold Member
The Kathy Griffin ban is worth $8.
SJRB
Gold Member
Elon is going hard to root out the bots.
That said, I scroll through my twitter feed like twice a day tops, and 95% of it random vapid garbage. It would make zero difference to me if I see it or not.
A lot of people vastly overestimate their significance on the platform. "Oh no, if I'm not verified my post about how frustrating it is to wait in line at the supermarket will end up at the bottom!", yeah nobody cares.
That said, I scroll through my twitter feed like twice a day tops, and 95% of it random vapid garbage. It would make zero difference to me if I see it or not.
A lot of people vastly overestimate their significance on the platform. "Oh no, if I'm not verified my post about how frustrating it is to wait in line at the supermarket will end up at the bottom!", yeah nobody cares.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Has he reinstated people that the era types feared yet? Peterson, the former pres etc.
Mistake
Member
That’s how I understand it too. I thought blue checks got priority in the first place currently, so basically, nothing will change besides the $8? I saw tweets from them all the time, even though I wasn’t subbed. I think Elon wants to give perks to people who actually want it, thereby leveling the playing field to any type of content creator. And it’s not that normal people won’t be seen at all, just in a different category or something.
No real sense in speculating until stuff actually get implemented, but even then, there will be some trial and error involved
dr_octagon
Banned
Peterson isn't banned.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
From what I read about this and heard in an interview it's there to encourage this BS and verify monthly subscribers will get priority. Now my independent thinking mine likes that so I don't know whether to follow others opinions on this and I don't like reading lots of bots/trolls myself
So if that is what an accomplishes then I commend it more than criticize it..
So if that is what an accomplishes then I commend it more than criticize it..
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Nice.
Dr.D00p
Gold Member
Neither does he...all his ventures are up to their eyeballs in debt.
Guy is huckster who hyped his way into investors cash, who now can't back out because they'll lose billions.
I don't really use twitter but it seems like this wouldn't change it at all. Corporations/celebs can easily pay the $8 so their stuff can be seen, "rando" users and their buddies probably have a friend circle or something so you will still see their stuff, all this really seems to do is make bots brutally expensive to field in mass to flood the space with crap.
He is forcing an account to have a single primary user and making it hard (expensive at least) for one user to have multiple accounts.
He is forcing an account to have a single primary user and making it hard (expensive at least) for one user to have multiple accounts.
ManaByte
Gold Member
This.
Blue checks mad about this are upset they can’t use their anon alt accounts to brigade and cancel people anymore.
Better p2w than get picked to win. The current verification system is trash, and is still used to boost Tweet visibility currently.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Don't see the issue to be honest. If you want to have an advantage in broadcasting your opinion why shouldn't you pay for the privilege?
What this discussion shows me is that existing blue checkmarks believe they are inherently "special" and if you aren't designated as such, your viewpoint is inferior and actually isn't worth shit in the grand scheme of things.
The way its couched as not having a blue-check disadvantages a person just shows how utterly fucked the mentality is. Essentially being "normal" -as in a regular rank and file user- is the worst thing imaginable for these cunts.
I think its brilliant to be honest. Elon is LITERALLY checking their privilege!
What this discussion shows me is that existing blue checkmarks believe they are inherently "special" and if you aren't designated as such, your viewpoint is inferior and actually isn't worth shit in the grand scheme of things.
The way its couched as not having a blue-check disadvantages a person just shows how utterly fucked the mentality is. Essentially being "normal" -as in a regular rank and file user- is the worst thing imaginable for these cunts.
I think its brilliant to be honest. Elon is LITERALLY checking their privilege!
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
I think the end of social media as we knew it is upon us. The kids don't like fb, Instagram with its shadow bans and now Twitter with this.
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Shizumapower
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SJRB
Gold Member
Exactly this.
The amount of people who seem to think their tweets are both invaluable and not worth 8 bucks a month is staggering.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I can't tell the difference between those 3 these days.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.
AzullAbaddon
Neo Member
As long as I can still get breaking sports news and naughty pictures um good. Bonus points if I see less puppets to the establishment in my feed.
I think Musk knows full well that hundreds of thousands of bots are being run by major groups, corporations and political parties. This has been essentially free advertising for them. This forces them to pay a hefty price for this advertising now. BRAVO. Should have been $20 a month.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Social media is ending as we know it. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as we know it
Shizumapower
Member
Shizumapower
Member
The Kathy Griffin saga continues.
She’s now screaming at him from her dead mother’s account.
Saw that , genuinely laughed. Comedy is indeed legal again.
AlteredForms
Banned
Is anybody actually surprised he'd pull a stunt like this? Elon dropped 40 billion on the damn thing and now he wants his money back. It was a bad investment and purchase in my humble opinion.
Shizumapower
Member
I've been suckered by misleading articles, information and sources. Accounts that look like the official one is the worst, glad it is hopefully ending.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
This is what batshit insane looks like.
Shizumapower
Member
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
I'm being serious, but not for malicious reasons. I know nothing about Meta's monetization of their services and apps. I just know that everyone always talks about how Twitter has never been good at making money. I've heard that for years now. I'm wondering if there's anything they could do within Twitter to be more effective at earning ad revenue, vs charging people a subscription. If they go down the path of charging people, Twitter as we know it will cease to exist. Honestly, that isn't a bad thing. Social media in general has proven to be a net negative and literally harmful to society, in ways we are still finding out as we go. But, if they want to make money and not impact the user experience, they could just double-down on ad revenue and find other ways to trim expenses. A subscription model will not work, at least for 99% of the users.
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phaedrus
Member
You're not Facebook's customer. You're Facebook's product.
Of course your data got ripped off. That's the whole point.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Customers /products. That is kind of how it works, though. Just calling a spade a spade, here.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Well people do that anyway, though. On FB and Twitter. Just look at the damage caused by the widespread circulation of election conspiracies about fraud. People still talk about it like it happened.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
So tweets are based on payers and not chronological?
So one guys tweets with a free account right now, but a payer replied yesterday, the $8 payer tweet will show up before the more recent free profiler's tweet?
So one guys tweets with a free account right now, but a payer replied yesterday, the $8 payer tweet will show up before the more recent free profiler's tweet?
a multicultural team of v
Member
99% of the users are not genuine content producers though, and don't need to be verified. So nothing changes for them.
The branding of this is weird because there is so much historical baggage to the blue checkmark, but this kind of just means a blue checkmark is a business account. If you produce content, if you are a notable person (who would then inherently produce content), you would want to buy a blue checkmark. If you don't you don't even need a blue checkmark because all you do is read other tweets and shitpost a little. You aren't the target audience. Sure you can get a blue checkmark anyway, but that is like buying a business account to Sam's Club for your family. I guess technically it is beneficial, but why bother?
The problem is the people at Twitter were incompetent's and could never figure out a business model, so the blue checkmark thing ended up being this weird gatekeeping tool that for some reason was free even though these people made more money off of Twitter than Twitter made themselves. Not saying Elon will ever figure out a way to make it profitable, but at least he is trying something different.
I wonder about that, because Elon himself has made Twitter posts saying the timeline algorithm is trash and use the chronological timeline option. My guess is that it applies to replies, but replies already are subject to a shit algo (so nothing will really change), and on top of that if more than 20 people comment on a Tweet your reply isn't getting read ever, under any circumstance or ownership of Twitter, anyway.
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It's not chronological now.
Vicetrailia
Member
Hey man don’t downplay yourself.
Elon has fucked up a ton since he took over. You wouldn’t make the same mistakes he would. Only an liar who doesn’t understand repercussions would.
At this point his strategy is to stop relying on advertisers by making money on twitter any way possible. The problem here is that he can’t, but will still try to change to a vine and only fans type of entertainment models.
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a multicultural team of v
Member
So unless they remove this option nothing is really changing.