Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter?

Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform.

“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots," said Elon. I can’t believe that this is the only solution he can think of.

Dealing with bots would be Elon Musk’s responsibility, considering he’s the only one profiting significantly from X, not us. Elon Musk steals our data and censors each of our posts, now he even expects us to pay to clean up the mess he created.

Plus, the problems with X go beyond just bots. The algorithm and programming decisions are negatively impacting user experience and manipulating people’s minds.

We want a town square where everyone is free to have & voice an opinion. I do not believe we have to pay ”a small monthly payment” for such a place, especially in a country that should value these freedoms & suppressing ideas.

glacier,
@glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You couldn’t even pay me to use Twitter

db2,

Hell. No.

Bishma,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I suspect the majority of people who would pay for twitter already are.

50MYT,

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.

Uniquitous,

That’s still a lot of suckers.

TehWorld,

I’m not willing to use it now, for free… not sure if this plan will incentivize me to join up.

drbi,

According to Musk and his cronies, it may incentivise you?

hal_5700X,
@hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

No, Twitter/X always been shit. Yes even before Elon Musk became the CTO. It was awful under Jack Dorsey.

ForgetReddit,

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.

tonytins,
@tonytins@pawb.social avatar

I suspect this will backfire, as usual.

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

He would need to pay me for being there, and not just a little.

NENathaniel,
@NENathaniel@lemmy.ca avatar

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

zoostation,

I’ll tell you next week when I stop laughing.

gregorum,

Lmao

uphillbothways,
@uphillbothways@kbin.social avatar

He went from saying he was going to build an 'everything app' to charging for something that does nothing and is shit at it.

Tsunami45chan, (edited )
@Tsunami45chan@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Serinus,

They should at least be double posting to Twitter and Mastodon.

You don’t lose reach by posting to more places.

Supermariofan67,

You could check out Misskey, another mastodon-like fediverse app with a large Japanese userbase and lots of artists

Tsunami45chan,
@Tsunami45chan@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you for telling me this and I will try it out.

Moof_Kenubi,

Looking forward to the influx of users to Bluesky and Mastodon, keep it up lemonsuk

squiblet,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

I won’t even use it for free, so paying seems unlikely.

Ilovethebomb,

Oh god, please do this.

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