So Twitter has been Elon-gated?

[N7RobBob]

 

[NorthCoastBias]

Well Shaun King decided to Peace Out Cub Scout so my user experience is already on the rise….

I muted/blocked Talcum X a long time ago.

 

[inliner311]

I certainly hope this won't prevent our celebs and heroes from destroying themselves, but isn't it about time it went the way of MySpace and Facebook?

Elon wanting to protect free speech on Twitter to the max and getting rid of bots and trolls is probably going to be an impossible task. There is so much repeating of people using the exact same language on Twitter and I'm not talking about retweets. It's hard to tell who is a bot and who is just an idiot repeating stuff. These people will get mad they are getting censored when they get flag for being a bot.

He might get revenue up but I think the people who use the linear format will be hard to target with ads especially political stuff. I have to think the most active Twitter users use it in a linear format because they use it like a news feed especially for sports. An algorithm feed for sports just makes you miss news or it shows you things late.

 

[prf100]

Buying Twitter as it enters hospice is a good one.

 

[macbdog]

Buying Twitter as it enters hospice is a good one.

What exactly is replacing Twitter as a medium for average people to raising records their thoughts, and for news?

And why is this news making anyone other than that boy who started the Musk plane tracker leave? I guess I'm at a loss, I don't really see why anyone would bail on it simply because of Musk.

 

[prf100]

What exactly is replacing Twitter as a medium for average people to raising records their thoughts, and for news?

And why is this news making anyone other than that boy who started the Musk plane tracker leave? I guess I'm at a loss, I don't really see why anyone would bail on it simply because of Musk.

I offer no proof. I just don’t like Twitter anymore (not Musk-related) so I think it’s dying.

 

[inliner311]

What exactly is replacing Twitter as a medium for average people to raising records their thoughts, and for news?

And why is this news making anyone other than that boy who started the Musk plane tracker leave? I guess I'm at a loss, I don't really see why anyone would bail on it simply because of Musk.

I don't think people will leave right away but I think part of Musk plans is to have people pay subscriptions to users for the content they put out. I think Musk was on board for an app that was proposing something similar a couple years ago, I can't remember the name of the app.

I think a push for some to move to a subscription base will leave some unable to balance what to give free and what to provide on a subscription. It will just leave screenshots of that content being posted on other platforms and possibly the demise of the platform.

 

[Benway]

I've read it but have never held a posting account. I literally have nothing of interest to say to Anyone.

 

[KI4MVP]

I don't think people will leave right away but I think part of Musk plans is to have people pay subscriptions to users for the content they put out. I think Musk was on board for an app that was proposing something similar a couple years ago, I can't remember the name of the app.

I think a push for some to move to a subscription base will leave some unable to balance what to give free and what to provide on a subscription. It will just leave screenshots of that content being posted on other platforms and possibly the demise of the platform.

Twitter already does that. You can set your account to allow super followers for a fee, people with super followers can send tweets only the super followers see and super followers are marked as super followers when they reply to you.

Can also pay a month subscription to get some other options including an edit tweet button that only works for a few seconds (they hold off posting the tweet until the time expires).

I haven't paid for any of those things, but have seen people who do.

 

[inliner311]

Twitter already does that. Super follow for a fee, people with super followers can send tweets only the super followers see.

Right and it seems Musk wants to try to push and grow that. Im sure Twitter has tried to grow revenue in different way and have been unsuccessful. I think Twitter users are set on their ways.

That other app I mention had problems getting off the ground because outside of some real rich people and celebrities, everyone else just questioned why anyone would pay to read what these people were thinking.

 

[jjvors]

I don't think people will leave right away but I think part of Musk plans is to have people pay subscriptions to users for the content they put out. I think Musk was on board for an app that was proposing something similar a couple years ago, I can't remember the name of the app.

I think a push for some to move to a subscription base will leave some unable to balance what to give free and what to provide on a subscription. It will just leave screenshots of that content being posted on other platforms and possibly the demise of the platform.

Why do you think a subscription is in the works? That would drive people away.

 

[inliner311]

Why do you think a subscription is in the works? That would drive people away.

There are a lot of article suggestion it. Twitter blue adds features but I could see Twitter trying to get popular users to make content that is behind a paywall either with paying to access a single person or access a large group users of content.

There are a lot of YouTubers going to pay site and trying to get their fanbase to pay for content. I think it's largely failing for them because alot seem to be coming back to YouTube and ramping back up the free content.

 

[KI4MVP]

There are a lot of article suggestion it. Twitter blue adds features but I could see Twitter trying to get popular users to make content that is behind a paywall either with paying to access a single person or access a large group users of content.

There are a lot of YouTubers going to pay site and trying to get their fanbase to pay for content. I think it's largely failing for them because alot seem to be coming back to YouTube and ramping back up the free content.

they already do that, see my post above.

 

[KI4MVP]

They added it last year.

Introducing $uper Follows

Today we’re excited to introduce Super Follows, a new way for people to earn monthly revenue by sharing subscriber-only content with their followers on Twitter.

blog.twitter.com

 

[AllforOne]

Why do you think a subscription is in the works? That would drive people away.

Exactly.

Twitter users are not the customers -- they are the product. Delivering all of those users (who are willingly spending lots of time on the site, and thus able to see that many more ads/promoted content) is the goal.

Maybe there are some side revenue streams to be mined directly from Twitter users (such as the ones @KI4MVP mentions above), but those are simply a little extra gravy on the biscuit.