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It was a stupid thing for the article to say. Musk knows exactly who the current customer is, and he obviously wants to change it. The current customer is the
by i_like_apis 4y ago
It was a stupid thing for the article to say. Musk knows exactly who the current customer is, and he obviously wants to change it.
The current customer is the ad buyer. It would be a lot better for the users if they were the customer (rather than the product).
- snotrockets 4y agoTwitter has about quarter of a billion MDAU. How many of those would pay? How much? What would be the cost of having 250mm customers? There’s a reason the web is so dependent on advertising.
- systemvoltage 4y agoPay to be heard, not pay to read. If you want to be heard, you'll need to be pay $8. Blue users will get priority over their tweet ranking compared to non-blue users. Lot of people would pay I think. It is not the same as Youtube where you are just purely consuming, not participating.
- snotrockets 4y agoYou could buy attention today (promoted tweets, promoted "who to follow", or more shady sites selling followers and likes). Most didn't. Musk (and yourself) seem to be falling in the age old mistake of thinking they are the user, a thought every decent PM should slap out of him, had he not fired them all, and made the rest scared for their lives.
- systemvoltage 4y agoNot easily. Promoted tweets isn't a subscription and average user doesn't want to dive into their backend Ad platform. I don't think anyone is failing to see your perspective. I am sharing what I think as objectively as I can present it. You and I are not wrong or right, we will have to see how things will play out. These are proposals. $8/month. Subscribe. Done.