eyy,

why do we insist on giving this guy so much free advertising? move on already lol

dawnerd,
@dawnerd@lemm.ee avatar

This IS the same guy that kept raising the price of FSD despite not delivering on promises.

trailing9,

Musk wants to create a super app like WeChat. He needs credit cards first. He is turning Twitter into his old X.

It’s the Apple app ecosystem without people willing to hand over credit card information for iTunes music. Apple won the mobile phone market because they had customers willing to pay for apps.

sculd,

I really really hope they eliminate the free tier. That might finally force people to move to other platforms.

Socsa,

This will actually be hilarious because it will out all the state propaganda who will be the only ones willing to pay

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

Sock puppeting works because it’s cheap, requiring payment would be a big spanner in the works.

_bug0ut,
@_bug0ut@lemmy.world avatar

How do they account for a service like privacy.com which allows you to generate multiple dummy card numbers for a single card?

If the cost of subscription is, instead, the barrier to entry then all we’ll end up seeing is parties who have the resources for wide spanning scams or propaganda or whatever it is - and if they’re paying then they expect to profit or score gains in some way that justify their costs, which likely means they’re effective at what they do

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

The cost will skyrocket as the ruble collapses

Auzy,

At the point if time, we’re just generating free traffic for him by continuously reminding they exist.

Just let Twitter die.

Zeragamba,
@Zeragamba@lemmy.ca avatar

Twitter is already dead. It’s X now

Auzy,

But they’d both be dead if we didn’t keep posting so many reminders of them

slumlordthanatos,

Honestly, I don’t know what Jack Dorsey is waiting for. The instant Bluesky leaves its closed beta, basically everyone on Twitter is gonna jump ship, and Twitter’s transformation into Truth Social 2.0 will be complete.

The iron has been hot for a long while. What’s he waiting for?

Zeragamba,
@Zeragamba@lemmy.ca avatar

Infrastructure I think. The last few waves of invites have brought instability to the system if i recall

mojo,

Twitter Blue was a failure, and they want to double down on it? Hopefully there’s a mark on their profile so they get bullied again.

REdOG,
@REdOG@lemmy.world avatar

I’m going to sign up and issue a charge back to make sure I get banned as a customer

magnetosphere,
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

As tired as I am of hearing about Twitter and Musk, stories of his costly failures always entertain!

skozzii,

They will just keep bleeding their loyal base of users dry until there is nothing left for them to give.

Kofu,
@Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

For someone so clever he do make dumb decisions. I don’t have twitter anymore and people like me who left are the reason ad aren’t working.

“Ahhh, I know. Memberships, Elon you are a god”.

Only people like caturd are the type to buy stuff that gives them a fake sense of popularity.

Conyak,

Once you realize he never was clever, just wealthy, it starts to make more sense.

Kofu,
@Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

I will admit I was clueless to it until it was reported more and more. Its important that people understand that he is a very very rich charlatan.

Hiccup,

Snake oil salesman with money for marketing

sugar_in_your_tea,

The solution here is simple and it’s the same as every other freemium service: milk the whales and serve ads to the plebs. Ideas specific to Twitter:

  • animated avatars
  • post borders
  • badges
  • early access to new features
  • ad few tiers

Iterate on that and you’ll reach profitability, assuming you start with a healthy userbase. The trick is to make them noticeable enough to stroke narcissists’ egos, but not so distracting that it turns into a clown show.

Basically, something like Reddit Gold, but broken up into multiple pieces. Those who don’t care can ignore it, and those who do can pay out of nose for it.

That Musk doesn’t see that just shows how clueless he is. He tried that with the blue check mark or whatever, but he completely changed the meaning behind it, which breaks a huge rule in UX, which is to not drastically change the meaning of existing functionality.

Kofu,
@Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

All I can say is. I agree exactly with your statement.

Im from South Africa and that was my initial like for the guy (no other knowledge than that he was South African) but as I got to see him more and more, learn about his background, I realised that he is nothing more than the classic South african rich kid or poes as we call em in SA.

Right around the point where he started calling people pedophiles for not letting him do some crazy thing, I saw that poes he always was, since then I have seen him become more and more of that poes.

I hope everyday he loses everything.

Poes is a vagina in South African Afrikaans but its used more of a diss than an the anatomical description, which would be a dis on vaginas at the comparison.

drlecompte,

So it’ll end up being a platform of trolls and bigots just screaming into the void and paying for the privilege. What a fabulous idea.

Critical_Insight,

I prefer the web version with adblocker for zero ads experience that costs $0

sugar_in_your_tea,

I prefer not using X at all, which is free and improves my mental health. That strategy worked well before Musk bought it too. I recommend trying it.

Critical_Insight,

If it’s about my mental health it’s lemmy I need to quit. My twitter feed is entirely a positive one and I spend less than hour a week there anyways.

homesweethomeMrL,

We, who are about to cry laughing, salute you!

cheese_greater,

die cry-laughing 🤣

FTFY

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