Jason Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/tech/twitter-subscription-earnings/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Lots of bold strategies coming out of places these days. I’m guessing this is a failure and will simply lead to a twitter replacement gaining a lot of traction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, sblfilms said: Lots of bold strategies coming out of places these days. I’m guessing this is a failure and will simply lead to a twitter replacement gaining a lot of traction. Sadly, every other platform seems to be much worse than Twitter. That said, down with Twitter/social media, up with classic message boards 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Oh good, even more reasons to hate Twitter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Twitter is superior to other platforms in one respect: immediate access to breaking news from reporters, etc. But the downsides outweigh the advantage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Twitter is great. Hopefully the subscription is just about stupid things like an edit button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazatron Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 TWTR stock up 6.5%, suck it losers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 There are ads on Twitter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 26 minutes ago, Jose said: Twitter is great. Hopefully the subscription is just about stupid things like an edit button. And edit button doesn't need to happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I’d pay for a Twitter sub if it meant they’d actively purge bots / hate speech and independently fact checked political stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 16 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: There are ads on Twitter? Sponsored tweets, and sometimes ads get stuck at the front of videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 53 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: I’d pay for a Twitter sub if it meant they’d actively purge bots / hate speech and independently fact checked political stuff. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 1 hour ago, mclumber1 said: There are ads on Twitter? There are if you use it on your phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Make it like the worst pay to win gaming stuff. Make it so you have to pay 10 cents per month for every character over 20 you want on your limit. That way we can dumb America down even more. Having the national discourse confined within 144 letters is just way too nuanced and complicated. We can go dumber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Chairslinger said: Make it like the worst pay to win gaming stuff. Make it so you have to pay 10 cents per month for every character over 20 you want on your limit. That way we can dumb America down even more. Having the national discourse confined within 144 letters is just way too nuanced and complicated. We can go dumber. Its actually 288, isn’t it? I don’t use it, but I seem to remember they doubled it some time ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 11 minutes ago, BloodyHell said: Its actually 288, isn’t it? I don’t use it, but I seem to remember they doubled it some time ago The biggest critics of Twitter are always people that never actually use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Twitter is a horrible social network, but it's a pretty decent broadcast platform. I don't tweet and I don't really use it to have any kind of conversations, but I think there's value in how people use it to broadcast. Both for my hobbies (tech, movies, games, F1) and for real news, it's a great for getting things from the source. I also like that Twitter is, compared to Google or Facebook, a pretty small company. It's not like they own a huge swath of the web or have a near monopoly on anything, so it sidesteps some of the anti-trust issues. I'm not sure how a subscription based Twitter would look, but I'd certainly consider it. It seems plausible to me that a subscription based Twitter, even for a very minimal fee, would actually be far better than it is now. It could really reduce the amount of noise on the platform, but it would really depend on implementation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Put trump behind a paywall. Do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Maybe if they banned the Nazis, more companies would want to advertise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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