Elon Musk reportedly discussing putting all of Twitter behind paywall
It would seem $8 a month for Twitter Blue might just be the beginning. Musk is allegedly toying with paywalling all of Twitter.
Ever since Elon Musk officially closed the deal to buy Twitter and took over ownership of the company, the changes to the platform have been coming fast and furious, for better or worse. Musk has laid off employees, changed verification, and paraded the new Twitter Blue, which now costs $8 a month for access to additional Twitter features, verification, and post priority. Unfortunately, it might not stop at a premium for Twitter Blue. Reportedly, Elon Musk has been toying with a plan to paywall all of Twitter.
These supposed plans were shared in a recent report by Platformer. According to the report, sources familiar with the situation shared that Elon Musk and advisor David Sacks were discussing plans to possibly paywall all of Twitter in a meeting on Monday. Among the models suggested were one that would allow browsing of Twitter up to a certain point before demanding a subscription fee.
“One such plan might allow everyone to use Twitter for a limited amount of time each month but require a subscription to continue browsing,” the report claimed.
Source: Susan Walsh/AP Photos
Paywalling all of Twitter would be a risky move for Elon Musk, despite the CEO’s efforts to recoup the $44 billion he paid for the platform and make Twitter profitable. The revised Twitter Blue has rolled out, which runs $8 USD per month and allows users verification, post priority (unverified users will be pushed down the list in replies), and other features such as limited Tweet editing. Musk’s new Twitter team has also cracked down on the platform, banning a number of high-profile accounts impersonating him over the last several days.
Nonetheless, putting up a paywall for all Twitter use feels like something far down the line at this time. As the current Twitter works on sprucing up Twitter Blue, we’ll see if the paywall rumor becomes more solidified. Stay tuned as we continue to follow the situation for further updates.
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replyTJ Denzer posted a new article, Elon Musk reportedly discussing putting all of Twitter behind paywall
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That would be glorious.
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He's clearly very smart in certain areas, just not *all* areas - like everyone!
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There’re plenty of engineering types who’ve worked directly with him who can vouch for the depth and breadth of his knowledge in cars and rockets. But Twitter isn’t a technical problem with a solution you can easily benchmark.
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I think it's beyond highly unlikely that most engineers given infinite time and money could produce Tesla and SpaceX in their current form. Lots of people inherit tons of wealth and fail to deploy it productively let alone to this level of success. Lots of founders make big exits and then never hit again with their newfound wealth, connections and time.
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Lots of people have taken over CEO roles without being founders and failed to achieve the types of growth and success Tesla and SpaceX have in far more established markets/companies. There's a reason all those highly motivated teams of people chose to work at those companies instead of others. There's a reason they achieved results there while many other highly motivated teams of people did not achieve results at other companies (ex Twitter). Your argument is that they did it all in spite of him which just isn't that credible even if his management style is flawed in many ways.
Trying to construct a world where Elon is just a rich idiot because you don't like his political views and shitposting just isn't realistic. It's entirely possible he is exceptionally talented at some things which lead to the unprecedented success he's had leading numerous companies. You can try to argue that his repeated, outsized success is pure luck akin to a Powerball winner but there's far more evidence in the other direction. It's not like we haven't seen numerous people prove highly successful in one field and be unable to translate that success to another field, or even another product in the same field. It doesn't mean their first success was all luck.-
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I think there’s plenty of evidence from people he worked with that his technical acumen and strategic vision is well beyond what the average person with means can do. At least in this specific engineering fields.
Part of the reason he’s cultivated this cult of personality that attracts good engineers is because of that. Good engineers see through the MBA CEO who doesn’t have the technical chops. They work with him, see he’s got the goods, then refer their friends.-
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Nah, just be a sociopath. It’s easy. You don’t have to be incredibly intelligent - just driven for power and fame beyond all reason. Then just don’t care at all about other human beings and you’ll have no qualms at all about treating them like shit to achieve your goals. Have we forgotten Steve Jobs so quickly?
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mr.sleepy is all like
https://i.imgur.com/FSlEfg5.gif
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DO IT
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Sounds like the business equivalent of a trial balloon in politics. That said, I hope he goes with it so the platform can die on him.
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Most billionaires get bored and just buy a sports team as a fun toy. They take the skills they learned in one business, realize they don't translate to sports, horribly mismanage the team for decades but still pocket a few billion in profit from a monopoly business where the customers are taught by the culture that they're bad people for not supporting 'their' team. Elon got high on his own supply of right wing bullshit and decided his fun toy should be Twitter and is learning just like the Dan Snyder's of the world that your skill don't work here. Except unlike football Musk's toy comes with actual competitor and his mismanagement comes with much bigger risk to the business (and unfortunately for us, much bigger risk to society).
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Some kill whole leagues, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxMCLHXkVc
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Twitter’s solution for ruining verification is another checkmark
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23448184/twitter-verification-official-checkmark-gray-blue?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1590114187858120705/photo/1-
Twitter is rolling out another type of checkmark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real. Although you can pay for a blue checkmark with the new version of Twitter Blue, select accounts for governments, companies, or public figures will get a gray “Official” checkmark, according to a thread from Twitter’s Esther Crawford, who is heading up the new Twitter Blue initiative.
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To be clear, before Musk bought it Twitter literally already had a checkmark to prove official verification, labels on accounts denoting what exactly they're official about (ex US gov vs RU gov) and a subscription product called Twitter Blue with additional features (like edit tweet). Just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic here.
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This was entirely intentional. They're playing off the coveted blue checkmark being a status symbol and now anyone can pay to get it!
They know exactly what they're doing and exactly why they wouldn't do it any other way.
Hopefully people are actually smart enough this time to see through these dark patterns and won't support it.
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Is this the Onion? lmao
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Is this some sort of "How fast can you burn 44 billion dollars" challenge?
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Part of me thinks that maybe his plan all along has been to kill it. Can you write off 44 billion dollars? Like maybe secretly (or not so secretly) his ego just can’t take being made fun of so subconsciously he’s like “I’m going to make this thing that’s hurting my feelings go away forever - just like how I’ve always made those small animals and insects go away forever”
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