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While I don't believe this is part of any master plan, if twitter is able to come out the other side of this with a different revenue model, this could inadvert

While I don't believe this is part of any master plan, if twitter is able to come out the other side of this with a different revenue model, this could inadvertently be really good. Advertising has destroyed the internet. I understand that losing advertiser revenue could destroy Twitter, it would still be great to see dependence on advertising broken.

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Zigurd 4y ago
The thing about this "it would still be great to see dependence on advertising broken" is that Twitter has been built and tuned for a brand advertising business model. Is that the best business model? Debatable. But changing it deep in self-inflicted crisis only reduces the odds of success. Changing without an expertly informed theory of what could work is even less likely to succeed.
LinuxBender 4y ago
I second this. Twitter and all other platforms need to start providing services that people might actually want to pay for and I do not mean blue checkmarks. Music, movies, games, E2EE messaging/mail, membership driven discounts to partners and so many more options... all with some guarantee of control over ones data and control over what third parties have access to ones data. Platforms have gone from obeying laws to obeying advertisers ethical and ideological preferences. Every member profile on every system should have checkboxes in a data-sharing tab that shows who wants my data and the platform should give me a financial incentive to leave the access enabled for said party and the ability to mute ads from each third party. If I leave ads from a specific advertiser unmuted then I get discount options with them.