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> there is sea of alternatives None of them even remotely have Twitter's reach, and more importantly content creators ranging from heads of state to Nobel Priz

> there is sea of alternatives None of them even remotely have Twitter's reach, and more importantly content creators ranging from heads of state to Nobel Prize winners to A-list celebrities.

brianwawok 5y ago
Right, but people are not paying $4 to read this. At least 99% of the market would drop off. I literally just log on to see what hilarious things papa elon tweet, without it I would just... do something better with my time.
logifail 5y ago
> heads of state to Nobel Prize winners to A-list celebrities I'm reminded of my OH's retort to someone reportedly claiming fluency in multiple languages, "Great, but do they have anything interesting to say in any of them?" I'm just not interested in Twitter as a source of information. For me, it's a last-ditch-saloon means to complain to companies who can't or won't publish a customer services email address. That's all.
- Closi 5y ago
  Absolutely agreed - what’s the thing in common all the listed ‘paid for’ subscriptions have? Good quality content. What’s twitters general concept? 140 word tweets that are intended to have very little thought go into them in general. That to me is poor quality content.
  - vineyardmike 5y ago
    > That to me is poor quality content. Yet many people pay for the twitter API data stream already.
- colinmhayes 5y ago
  Twitter is the first place every piece of information has been posted on the internet for a decade. Seeing it asap might not matter for you, but it does for many people.
- vineyardmike 5y ago
  > I'm just not interested in Twitter as a source of information Good for you, but there are millions of people who don't share this view, including the whole point of this discussion is for those people.
  - tonguez 5y ago
    "Good for you, but there are millions of people who don't share this view, including the whole point of this discussion is for those people." "Good for you," It seems like you were so mad you forgot how grammar works. Maybe take a few days off from your rage echo chamber. I'm pretty sure whatever you were trying to say was wrong, and you provide an example of why discussions about Twitter aren't relevant only to Twitter users. The majority of people, who are disgusted by Twitter, want it gone, because they don't like what it does to people like you. It turns them into these raging bot-like NPCs who can't even speak in intelligible sentences, which makes it easier for Big Brother to control everything, because instead of rightly hating Big Brother, it's brainwashed you into hating people who advocate for free speech and don't want everything in life controlled by whoever happened to inherit the most money.

> there is sea of alternatives None of them even remotely have Twitter's reach, and more importantly content creators ranging from heads of state to Nobel Prize winners to A-list celebrities.

brianwawok 5y ago

Right, but people are not paying $4 to read this. At least 99% of the market would drop off. I literally just log on to see what hilarious things papa elon tweet, without it I would just... do something better with my time.

logifail 5y ago

> heads of state to Nobel Prize winners to A-list celebrities I'm reminded of my OH's retort to someone reportedly claiming fluency in multiple languages, "Great, but do they have anything interesting to say in any of them?" I'm just not interested in Twitter as a source of information. For me, it's a last-ditch-saloon means to complain to companies who can't or won't publish a customer services email address. That's all.

Closi 5y ago
Absolutely agreed - what’s the thing in common all the listed ‘paid for’ subscriptions have? Good quality content. What’s twitters general concept? 140 word tweets that are intended to have very little thought go into them in general. That to me is poor quality content.
- vineyardmike 5y ago
  > That to me is poor quality content. Yet many people pay for the twitter API data stream already.
colinmhayes 5y ago
Twitter is the first place every piece of information has been posted on the internet for a decade. Seeing it asap might not matter for you, but it does for many people.
vineyardmike 5y ago
> I'm just not interested in Twitter as a source of information Good for you, but there are millions of people who don't share this view, including the whole point of this discussion is for those people.
- tonguez 5y ago
  "Good for you, but there are millions of people who don't share this view, including the whole point of this discussion is for those people." "Good for you," It seems like you were so mad you forgot how grammar works. Maybe take a few days off from your rage echo chamber. I'm pretty sure whatever you were trying to say was wrong, and you provide an example of why discussions about Twitter aren't relevant only to Twitter users. The majority of people, who are disgusted by Twitter, want it gone, because they don't like what it does to people like you. It turns them into these raging bot-like NPCs who can't even speak in intelligible sentences, which makes it easier for Big Brother to control everything, because instead of rightly hating Big Brother, it's brainwashed you into hating people who advocate for free speech and don't want everything in life controlled by whoever happened to inherit the most money.