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I think Twitter/X charging money might be what kills it off. If you need to pay to post/view anything, then about 95% of the population will say "sod this, I'm

by CM30 3y ago

I think Twitter/X charging money might be what kills it off. If you need to pay to post/view anything, then about 95% of the population will say "sod this, I'm out of here". I'll be very surprised if Musk actually does go through with that promise/idea (even someone like this knows how network effects work, right?), but if he does, I'd say that would be the tipping point.

lolc 3y ago
As somebody with only second-hand exposure to Twitter, it feels like they're actively driving it to irrelevance. All I hear for a year now is that they turn off interfaces that enabled people to integrate with them. Just last week a customer called because the Twitter embed on their site didn't work anymore. When we said we'd investigate, they said not to bother and just replace it with a link.
- joenot443 3y ago
  As somebody who’s been on Twitter since 2008, you couldn’t be more wrong. The site has never felt more alive, anyone vaguely tangential to TPOT or other Twitter subcultures could tell you the same. The difference now is that more of the conversation is happening amongst actual users and less so amongst corporations as I assume is the case for your client. Personally, I’m totally happy if Burger King and Tom’s Plumbing leave Twitter and head to Mastodon, they weren’t the ones making it a good platform in the first place.
  - lolc 3y ago
    The client is a scientific institution. I wanted to check whether they are tweeting at all anymore. But it doesn't show their tweets without me registering. Shrug.
  - CaptainFever 3y ago
    What is TPOT?
vardump 3y ago
> I think Twitter/X charging money might be what kills it off. I don't think this is true at all. Where did you get this idea they'd charge money for reading and posting?
- agrounds 3y ago
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- sjsdaiuasgdia 3y ago
  https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/musk-x-twitter-charge-all-users-monthly-subscription-fees https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/musk-x-twitter-charge-all-u...
  - vardump 3y ago
    And a video where Musk states it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sea-Uxw5Syg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sea-Uxw5Syg ..."because a bot costs a fraction of a penny call it a tenth of a penny, but if somebody even has to pay a few dollars, some minor amount, the effective cost of bots is very high. And then you also have to get a new payment method every time you have a new bot". I understand where Musk is coming from, but that's crazy. I think if X charges even a dollar a year, it'll lose 95%+ of its customer base. Unless, of course, X has some serious value proposition in the future. I don't see much right now.
foderking 3y ago
"i think xyz would be what finally kills twitter" "this time bro, just trust me. it wouldn't go like the 1000 other times i predicted twitter would get killed"
- CM30 3y ago
  I get the skepticism, but I've never seen people pay for a social media site en masse. If Twitter/X changes that I'll be very surprised (and probably disappointed in humanity's unwillingness to let go of the past).

by CM30 3y ago

lolc 3y ago

As somebody with only second-hand exposure to Twitter, it feels like they're actively driving it to irrelevance. All I hear for a year now is that they turn off interfaces that enabled people to integrate with them. Just last week a customer called because the Twitter embed on their site didn't work anymore. When we said we'd investigate, they said not to bother and just replace it with a link.

joenot443 3y ago
As somebody who’s been on Twitter since 2008, you couldn’t be more wrong. The site has never felt more alive, anyone vaguely tangential to TPOT or other Twitter subcultures could tell you the same. The difference now is that more of the conversation is happening amongst actual users and less so amongst corporations as I assume is the case for your client. Personally, I’m totally happy if Burger King and Tom’s Plumbing leave Twitter and head to Mastodon, they weren’t the ones making it a good platform in the first place.
- lolc 3y ago
  The client is a scientific institution. I wanted to check whether they are tweeting at all anymore. But it doesn't show their tweets without me registering. Shrug.
- CaptainFever 3y ago
  What is TPOT?

vardump 3y ago

> I think Twitter/X charging money might be what kills it off. I don't think this is true at all. Where did you get this idea they'd charge money for reading and posting?

agrounds 3y ago
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sjsdaiuasgdia 3y ago
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/musk-x-twitter-charge-all-users-monthly-subscription-fees https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/musk-x-twitter-charge-all-u...
- vardump 3y ago
  And a video where Musk states it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sea-Uxw5Syg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sea-Uxw5Syg ..."because a bot costs a fraction of a penny call it a tenth of a penny, but if somebody even has to pay a few dollars, some minor amount, the effective cost of bots is very high. And then you also have to get a new payment method every time you have a new bot". I understand where Musk is coming from, but that's crazy. I think if X charges even a dollar a year, it'll lose 95%+ of its customer base. Unless, of course, X has some serious value proposition in the future. I don't see much right now.

foderking 3y ago

"i think xyz would be what finally kills twitter" "this time bro, just trust me. it wouldn't go like the 1000 other times i predicted twitter would get killed"

CM30 3y ago
I get the skepticism, but I've never seen people pay for a social media site en masse. If Twitter/X changes that I'll be very surprised (and probably disappointed in humanity's unwillingness to let go of the past).