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.

ChrisLicht,

I would pay to not use it.

stillwater,

Don’t give him ideas.

Blapoo,

I’d happily pay a monthly fee for twitter to stop existing

jazzkob,
@jazzkob@lemmy.world avatar

no I’m not willing to play for using twitter, I’ll just delete my account.

as for the “it’s the only way to combat the army of bots” comment - how is that the army of bots only became a problem after twitter became x? i never had a problem before but now my every tweet is liked by a kinsley, madeline, josephine, mia or layla. it’s crazy.

oh, maybe that’s one of the microservices they shut down

ArugulaZ,
@ArugulaZ@kbin.social avatar

Sorry Jovan Musk, from Calvin Klein! The answer is nooooOOOOOoooo. Old Twitter is dead. You killed it, and now you're trying to sell me its smelly corpse.

wolre,

As I understand, even when paying you would still see ads and not get any benefits over what Twitter is at the moment whatsoever. I honestly cannot imagine the platform retaining many users after such a drastic step.

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

IIRC current twitter blue subscribers see 50% fewer ads than free users.

__init__,

Maybe I will finally go delete my old account.

circuitfarmer,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

$0.

Twitter like so many other social media companies came into being with users as the product. As that fails (both because Elon is an idiot and because consumer knowledge has improved), these companies are finding that they never really had a sustainable business model.

Let the market work it out, as the overlords are so fond of.

Ilovethebomb,

Oh god, please do this.

Moof_Kenubi,

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

glacier,
@glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You couldn’t even pay me to use Twitter

muntedcrocodile,
@muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world avatar

Hell nar we got mastadon

jinarched,
@jinarched@lemm.ee avatar

Nah, I’ll definitely get that latte instead.

Gazumi,

I left already. I’m certainly not paying to use something so terrible

Engywuck,

lol

squiblet,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

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

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