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New York City Subway Ends Twitter Service Alerts After Musk Raises Price
- john_shafthair 3y ago[flagged]
- rhaway84773 3y agoThese “freeloaders” is why people visit Twitter. Twitter still doesn’t seem to understand what it’s product is. Also the MTA clearly already has the infrastructure and provides this service in multiple other places. They have 2 apps, their website, and SMS/email alerts. So the infrastructure is not an issue. The only difference is if someone wants to look up an MTA alert they will now go to the website, like they always could, instead of possibly going to Twitter and being exposed to Twitter ads.
- rsynnott 3y ago> Twitter still doesn’t seem to understand what it’s product is. I mean, I assume _Twitter_ does. Musk clearly doesn't, though.
- john_shafthair 3y agoTwitter is a discussion forum, or as Musk succinctly put it, "a group text service at scale". No one goes to Twitter for some hacked-together side channel notifications. Companies leech off it for the reach. If they want the customer base (value) they can pay.
- rhaway84773 3y agoAnd companies do pay for the reach. Through ads. Finding useful information, like whether their commute is affected, is why the Twitter customer base exists in the first place (and no, Twitter isn’t a “group text service at scale”…you know what are group text services? Group text services. Like WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, whatever Google’s group chat of the day is, SMS, etc). Asking the content providers to pay for the content is completely backwards. But again, we already knew that Elon doesn’t understand what Twitter is
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- rektide 3y agoThe great de-twittering continues. This online space has no plans to ever make itself better & more connected. Unaffordable for most. Strictly worse from here on out.
- anigbrowl 3y agoInfrastructure disappearing off Twitter is probably a Bad Thing, and may have been the endgame all along.