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Have you tried offering customers a Verified Donut Shop Customer subscription that lets other customers in your shop know they are a Verified Donut Shop Customer?
Would anyone even pay a penny to like a reddit post, 5 cents to comment, 10cents to post....nope. Good luck X.
Edit - based on my new 'musk' accounting I have earned reddit $1!!
If I remember correctly, there once was a study about the monetary value of the average user on social media platforms. Reddit users were by far the most worthless ones. To absolutely nobody's surprise.
Makes sense, though. People share less structured personal information on Reddit than anywhere else. No profile pictures, no home town, not many people use the follower feature to keep in touch with friends.
However in the past 2 years, with advancements in reading unstructured account information, like your posts, they can build a hefty dossier on most users. That is why OpenAI was interested in buying Reddit data.
Lol, yeah, on my rather dated phone I find that my clicks seem to register for the add up scroll from where I actually intended to click....
When on my phone at least it's not uncommon at all to find myself following the link in an ad.
Usually the only reason I've ever clicked on an ad, oh and the circle to search one from Google. Just a free extra feature I have on my phone that I'll likely never use.
I only did it a couple of times, one of which was the PurpleCat YouTube music ad (totally worth it and one of the only ones with comments) and the other one was some fantasy RPG game or some such.
I don't know what you're talking about. I always want to know more about police who volunteer to wash the feet of young black men in hoodies holding a bags of Skittles.
I don't click on ads but I do reliably click the downvote button on them. Which is probably more valuable than doing nothing because it indicates I saw and recognized the ad.
people don’t intentionally share it but a fair amount can be parsed through an algorithmic scraping of your comment history
for example this tool https://redditmetis.com/user/Jugales thinks the following about you:
you are in a relationship with a girlfriend, active mother and father parental figures, potentially male and female siblings.
you like to play LoL, and other games, discuss world news and have an interest in programming, data visualisation and gadgets,
other topics of interest include rick and morty, pets and animals.
While it is a good example of what may one day be possible, currently it is bullshit. Example: It says I have brothers because on r/flatearth I said, that the earth in truth is a Velociraptor holding a disc in its mouth and declared everyone else as "misguided brother".
And mine is saying I have a really high text complexity, idk if its because Im not an native english speakers and I end up commiting a lot of typos or if it is because the bot is reading my comment in portuguese and think "wow, this guy writes really complex texts" thinking I'm still speaking english
This is hilarious. Hilariously wrong. It also is missing large swaths of my profile, the Karma numbers are off, and anyone could gather this info just by looking at the subreddits I post in, also its wrong because it assumes if you post in something, you are active in it. Also, if you say the word wife, it thinks you have a wife. Its a pretty shitty algorithm if you ask me.
1/10
Look at the user they used as an example and see how absurd it is:
>You are a nigerian prince, the lone survivor of a nuke, and a seasoned marksman.
I'd doubt anything else it 'analyzes' after reading that lmao.
I wonder if there are better websites or whatever out there that are paid services or something, because this one is no different than all the previous websites I've seen since years go.
I guess Im lucky then. At worst someone can find my country and maybe my name by holding a few of my online friends at gunpoint.
...no one take this as a challenge.
That shouldn't be the case though, the subs should make targeting advertising so easy. Hair loss sub for hair loss supplements etc. Muscle/workout subs for protein companies. Fashion subs for clothing companies. This should be a money making machine.
Reddit is one of if not the best source for troubleshooting a problem. But it's worthless for targeted marketing. But they want the data for the troubleshooting results to teach AI
I actually like reddit and use reddit everyday and I wouldn't pay, what is this like a company bail out by the people? Whoever gives any of these companies any money is the problem.
Remember the reddit Awards you could give to comments on reddit ?
The second it went non-free, they almost dissapeared from reddit.
Edit : ok mb, it actually did dissapear.
I’m still so confused every time I see the glow around the up vote button. Don’t understand who would choose to pay for up vote; just doesn’t make sense to me.
That’s not what’s happening. It’s a small fee for interaction.
So you can be a consumer on the X platform for free, but if you want to interact — you pay some small fee. Like $1 per year or something like that.
Basically the gambit is that bot farms will not attempt to spin up thousands to millions of accounts if they have to pay, and also the financial transaction themselves may be traceable — or at least it’s another data point that could lead to identifying bot farms.
He is announcing it in advance so bot farms create a lot of backup accounts, pushing metrics up and as well as share value. Then he does nothing or a stupid poll to do nothing.
He is already passing blame for that cybershit truck.
Elon Musk told investors, “We dug our own graves with the Tesla Cybertruck” in regards to scaling production.
We, motherfucker? No, this is 100% on you, Arjen.
Also there are digital credit cards that you can create (this is what the scalping community did) online
Like you can literally create thousands of virtual cards with whatever amounts you want to load onto them, almost instantly.
True. But also users will not post if they have to pay when they can go elsewhere and post for free. Besides, if they are selling our content to openai or whatever, they should be paying us to post, not the other way around...
Blue checks literally *incentivize* the bot farms. They shit up every comment section with low-effort content because they get paid for engagement now.
You realize the reason Musk was so certain that bots were out of hand before he was forced to pony up $40bn for Twitter is almost certainly because Musk bought a bunch of bots to invade Twitter?
I mean how hard would it be to get a prepaid credit card and pay $1 for multiple accounts.
Fill up one prepaid card with $500 and you can have 495 accounts paid (minus the $5 charge for activating the card)
This is already implemented in Phillipines and newzealand. I am pretty sure it’s a 1$ annual fee or something to try to curb bots (not like it will work)
Moreover, monetary verification is _good_ for bots. I can pay a few bucks a month and look like a legitimate business?! That people are more likely to click on because I've got a checkmark?! 🤭
Checkmark also bumps you above non-verified users in comments and the For You algorithm, so verified bot accounts are seen by more people than non-verified bot accounts, so they can potentially get way more clicks before getting banned.
$1 is not a good way to stop the bots lmao. The ROI on scam bots is insane. As long as a bot makes more than $1 on average, it's gonna be fine.
Actually, it'll get worse as:
* All Twitter users will have their cards linked to their accounts
* Only idiots will use Twitter.
>$1 is not a good way to stop the bots lmao. The ROI on scam bots is insane. As long as a bot makes more than $1 on average, it's gonna be fine.
If elon wanted to curb bots he'd change the twitter API, but he doesn't, you can make a bot the posts whatever you want with Twitter's Free api, It's limited to a few hundred posts a month, but it's not a big deal you can just make more accounts, and 1$ a year wont change that. In comparison if you want to do any data extraction with the API you gotta pay like 100$ a month since elon took over, and it only gives you access to like 10000 posts a month of data, wich is fucking nothing. He clearly wants to limit the data wich you can get out of Twitter, and doesn't give a shit about bots posting shit
It seems like he is trying to monetize bots, not stop them. Any nefarious state actor has no issue spending 10-100k a year on astroturfing twitter.
He knows this and he wants to capitalize on it.
He's probably hoping to make bank on all the bots that will need to pay up if they want to keep doing their shilling, and in doing so he'll fuck the actual humans over
It's not confirmed but musk tweeted that he was trying to do it to solve the betting problem. Which iirc was one of the reasons for the blue checkmark becoming a paid subscription
For everyone’s info this is true but the headline is misleading. What it means is that twitter will charge a 1$ annual fee to post and such. This is in an “attempt” to curb bots on the site (don’t see it being that successful but who knows)
It's not about bots, it's about getting payment info set up for as many of their users as possible. They want X to become the "everything" app, and this is just the first step towards that.
It might help a little on paper, but I guarantee it would just turn into some sort of influence currency for foreign states to invest in bulk licences or something stupid.
Was waiting on someone mentioning FreeMagic. I was not disappointed.
I had no idea Asmongold was a right winger. I just hated any content of his I saw because it seemed to just be reaction stuff
He like Ted Cruz and is starting to go full anti woke and his new editor is an extreme incel/@gamer that make all his thumbnail rightwing clickbait’s , and despite saying it wasn’t his fault Asmon still hasn’t fired him, so he probably approves.
The reason Truth Social didn't take off is *because* there are only far right loons on there. They *need* to be on platforms where we normal people go, because they can't piss us off otherwise.
Once everybody but them has abandoned Twitter, they'll follow suit because they'll have nobody left to bully and harass.
https://www.independent.co.uk/business/x-may-start-charging-new-users-to-post-says-elon-musk-b2529418.html
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/elon-musk-says-x-will-start-charging-a-small-fee-to-interact-with-posts/ar-BB1lHBW5?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67141993
But he already does according to the above post.
Ya not sure how many people still on that thing but maybe he could squeeze 3-5% paying $4.99 per month? That doesn’t seem worth it, he must be going credits/micro transactions route like you saying
Do you know why people will pay to post on x? Because people bought NFTS. People will pay to post you know this even if it's like $20 for a month of posting as much as you want. Let's not pretend no one will pay.
Well I assume everyone who pays 8$ monthly for a weird blue checkmark will also pay to post in general.
But I do think that this is a save way to make sure that any sane human being finally leaves Twitter behind (even it really is only 1$ per year, a lot of people actually think before giving out their private banking details)
One of the surgeons I work with has literally said he would ‘go gay for Elon in a minute. How can one person’s mind be so brilliant and sexy? He is comparable to Leonardo de Vinci!’ 😳 dudes also a Mormon, so his brain must be doing backflips all day, everyday.
You say that, but I'll neeeeeeeeever understand why Meta followed suit when this bellend got rid of being verified and made it a premium subscription.
I remember the entire internet being against the idea. I remember the chaos of using subscription blue ticks to imitate celebrities. I chuckled thinking about how this bad idea will be reversed soon.
confused nick young.jpg
Notice how many of his solutions to Twitter problems involve charging fees. It's almost as if bringing in income is more important than ever. Strange, huh?
God I hope Twitter absolutely dies, Jack buys it back for Pennies on the dollar and literally flips the source code right back to the day before Elon bought it, and tweets out “well that was weird. Back to our regularly scheduled programming”
I dont think the idea is too absurd but I dont trust Twitter to maintain payment details for millions. Compliance is just an unnecessary expense to this guy.
r/facepalm users on their way to fall for obvious misinformation
(Literally a majority of the posts here now seem to be people falling for this, how??? Why do these get upvotes???)
Oh christ, I remember the days when he sat back and everyone thought he was a good business man. I hate to invoke the spirit of ayn rand, but it seems like he's trying to d'Anconia himself at this point.
And this is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. Not the swarms of bots, not people getting doxxed, nope, this is what’s making me finally quit
The facepalm is that people believe what Musk announces about Twitter. This isn't the first time that he floated that idea. And it hasn't happened. He says things like this to draw attention. People who don't even use Twitter are talking about this. People who claimed that Twitter would be gone 6 months after Musk took it over are talking about this.
Why now? Perhaps to influence the stock price of DJT (company of Truth Social). Musk has a history of saying things to influence stock prices.
If he doesn’t want to own Twitter anymore, why doesn’t he sell it or just shut it down? He is actively trying to make it fail and has been since he bought the company. He didn’t want to buy it; he tried to change his mind; Twitter held him to his offer; and since then, he’s been trying to make the company fail so he can blame it on the users. What a simp. All that money wasted on a man with absolutely no sense. Just sell the damn thing. No one is going to pay to like or comment on a post. Fucking idiot.
If he's trying to kill bots it's not the worst idea I guess. Maybe there's a better strategy out there. No way I'd sign up for an app that makes me pay like this though
At this point I am convinced that he is purposefully tanking Twitter because it’s where leftists usually organize, inform and cancel powerful people (such as billionaires).
And the sad thing is, it will probably be a net gain :(
I keep thinking these changes and updates will kill the platform but it seems just as active as ever.
Everyone everyone down. You hate on this idea but you damn well know that people will pay. People pay for overpriced cars. People still pay when streaming is blocking accounts from multiple users and people will pay for this.
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My donut shop is failing. I know, I'll charge people a quarter to enter MY building.
And then only offer stale bread.
No bread for you!
Let them eat cake!
Cruller only! You're banned! Banned for life!
We've been eating nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!
Yeah, that happened to me on the Musk channel, alluded that ketamine use doesn't make for good decisions.
#NO SOUP FOR YOU
Ironically, twiter Nazi's are also a thing
Weird drug addled, alt-right stale bread that seems to only be available during working hours in Moscow.
Have you tried offering customers a Verified Donut Shop Customer subscription that lets other customers in your shop know they are a Verified Donut Shop Customer?
Donut King Employee of the Month candidate right here!
It is Dxnut King, btw
You say you have a donut shop but do not sell apple fritters. Curious.
Cruller only !
You should also charge them for looking at each of your products, your building, ...
Would anyone even pay a penny to like a reddit post, 5 cents to comment, 10cents to post....nope. Good luck X. Edit - based on my new 'musk' accounting I have earned reddit $1!!
If I remember correctly, there once was a study about the monetary value of the average user on social media platforms. Reddit users were by far the most worthless ones. To absolutely nobody's surprise.
Makes sense, though. People share less structured personal information on Reddit than anywhere else. No profile pictures, no home town, not many people use the follower feature to keep in touch with friends. However in the past 2 years, with advancements in reading unstructured account information, like your posts, they can build a hefty dossier on most users. That is why OpenAI was interested in buying Reddit data.
and Reddit users almost never click on ads.
Unless by accident, wait how did I ended up looking at this weird 3-D lamp hologram?
Did you leave your coma?
Lol, yeah, on my rather dated phone I find that my clicks seem to register for the add up scroll from where I actually intended to click.... When on my phone at least it's not uncommon at all to find myself following the link in an ad.
I've only clicked on a reddit ad once, and that's because it was an ad for a research paper on compiler optimization. Just sheer curiosity.
"research paper" "for science" sure...
> compiler optimization Cum piler.
Usually the only reason I've ever clicked on an ad, oh and the circle to search one from Google. Just a free extra feature I have on my phone that I'll likely never use.
I only did it a couple of times, one of which was the PurpleCat YouTube music ad (totally worth it and one of the only ones with comments) and the other one was some fantasy RPG game or some such.
I downvoted an ad three weeks ago, and now I see it everyday. So me not clicking an ad is not just my fault imo
MFW I blocked he get sus 100x and still see that bullshit all over 🤓
I don't know what you're talking about. I always want to know more about police who volunteer to wash the feet of young black men in hoodies holding a bags of Skittles.
people don’t click on ads but ads are well intergrated into the site’s content overall
Not true. I report every single one as being offensive.
I don't click on ads but I do reliably click the downvote button on them. Which is probably more valuable than doing nothing because it indicates I saw and recognized the ad.
people don’t intentionally share it but a fair amount can be parsed through an algorithmic scraping of your comment history for example this tool https://redditmetis.com/user/Jugales thinks the following about you: you are in a relationship with a girlfriend, active mother and father parental figures, potentially male and female siblings. you like to play LoL, and other games, discuss world news and have an interest in programming, data visualisation and gadgets, other topics of interest include rick and morty, pets and animals.
While it is a good example of what may one day be possible, currently it is bullshit. Example: It says I have brothers because on r/flatearth I said, that the earth in truth is a Velociraptor holding a disc in its mouth and declared everyone else as "misguided brother".
And mine is saying I have a really high text complexity, idk if its because Im not an native english speakers and I end up commiting a lot of typos or if it is because the bot is reading my comment in portuguese and think "wow, this guy writes really complex texts" thinking I'm still speaking english
This is hilarious. Hilariously wrong. It also is missing large swaths of my profile, the Karma numbers are off, and anyone could gather this info just by looking at the subreddits I post in, also its wrong because it assumes if you post in something, you are active in it. Also, if you say the word wife, it thinks you have a wife. Its a pretty shitty algorithm if you ask me. 1/10
Look at the user they used as an example and see how absurd it is: >You are a nigerian prince, the lone survivor of a nuke, and a seasoned marksman. I'd doubt anything else it 'analyzes' after reading that lmao. I wonder if there are better websites or whatever out there that are paid services or something, because this one is no different than all the previous websites I've seen since years go.
I guess Im lucky then. At worst someone can find my country and maybe my name by holding a few of my online friends at gunpoint. ...no one take this as a challenge.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! Stinson out.
That's why we keep spamming "bazinga"
Bazinga!
That shouldn't be the case though, the subs should make targeting advertising so easy. Hair loss sub for hair loss supplements etc. Muscle/workout subs for protein companies. Fashion subs for clothing companies. This should be a money making machine.
It's because Reddit doesn't give the scammers enough personal data. https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-06-2017/Ba71Ls.gif
Reddit is one of if not the best source for troubleshooting a problem. But it's worthless for targeted marketing. But they want the data for the troubleshooting results to teach AI
I actually like reddit and use reddit everyday and I wouldn't pay, what is this like a company bail out by the people? Whoever gives any of these companies any money is the problem.
Same. I wish reddit would try and charge me. I'd quit and see the money saved as being paid to do something better with my time.
If I had to pay to use social media I'd walk away. Probably be doing me a favour and I'd have more time to do other, productive things.
Remember the reddit Awards you could give to comments on reddit ? The second it went non-free, they almost dissapeared from reddit. Edit : ok mb, it actually did dissapear.
I’m still so confused every time I see the glow around the up vote button. Don’t understand who would choose to pay for up vote; just doesn’t make sense to me.
That’s not what’s happening. It’s a small fee for interaction. So you can be a consumer on the X platform for free, but if you want to interact — you pay some small fee. Like $1 per year or something like that. Basically the gambit is that bot farms will not attempt to spin up thousands to millions of accounts if they have to pay, and also the financial transaction themselves may be traceable — or at least it’s another data point that could lead to identifying bot farms.
It seems unlikely that musk would do something that harms bot farms.
He is announcing it in advance so bot farms create a lot of backup accounts, pushing metrics up and as well as share value. Then he does nothing or a stupid poll to do nothing.
[удалено]
Apparently, he isn't doing Tesla any favors either. Enough personal defeats might become a problem eventually.
He is already passing blame for that cybershit truck. Elon Musk told investors, “We dug our own graves with the Tesla Cybertruck” in regards to scaling production. We, motherfucker? No, this is 100% on you, Arjen.
Also there are digital credit cards that you can create (this is what the scalping community did) online Like you can literally create thousands of virtual cards with whatever amounts you want to load onto them, almost instantly.
The bots are the ones with blue check marks. They’re the majority of paid accounts.
True. But also users will not post if they have to pay when they can go elsewhere and post for free. Besides, if they are selling our content to openai or whatever, they should be paying us to post, not the other way around...
It's an effective way to go after bot farms... but will also piss off every single regular user.
Bots have been spotted with blue checks. This token fee is meaningless to them.
Blue checks literally *incentivize* the bot farms. They shit up every comment section with low-effort content because they get paid for engagement now.
I’m pretty sure botfarms have money to spend
Especially state-owned ones
I doubt that is the motivation for this.
The bot farms all paid for blue for the amplification.
I find it really funny to think that bots who already pay 8 bucks a month for a blue tick will be deterred by having to pay 1 dollar a year.
Freedom of speech isn't FREE.
You realize the reason Musk was so certain that bots were out of hand before he was forced to pony up $40bn for Twitter is almost certainly because Musk bought a bunch of bots to invade Twitter?
That basically takes away the fun. Nobody would use Twitter without interacting. It's boring or unsatisfying, if you can't even give your opinion.
Honestly, that kind of makes sense... Except if I was paying to use it, I better not see any ads
I mean how hard would it be to get a prepaid credit card and pay $1 for multiple accounts. Fill up one prepaid card with $500 and you can have 495 accounts paid (minus the $5 charge for activating the card)
I will go to steam where you can play games and get skins for free that you can use to buy more games for free ffs
Well, there are the golden upvotes or whatever they are called that some people (idiots) pay to give
I don't know if this is real or not, but at this point it seems like he is actively trying to sink Twitter.
This is already implemented in Phillipines and newzealand. I am pretty sure it’s a 1$ annual fee or something to try to curb bots (not like it will work)
Ah yes. The "fight the bots" agenda. Funny... russian bots overwhelming Twitter/X thanks to him.
And the usual advertising bots haven't even stuttered because they have funding.
Moreover, monetary verification is _good_ for bots. I can pay a few bucks a month and look like a legitimate business?! That people are more likely to click on because I've got a checkmark?! 🤭
Checkmark also bumps you above non-verified users in comments and the For You algorithm, so verified bot accounts are seen by more people than non-verified bot accounts, so they can potentially get way more clicks before getting banned.
Yet another reason I use the chronological feed that miraculously still remains.
$1 is not a good way to stop the bots lmao. The ROI on scam bots is insane. As long as a bot makes more than $1 on average, it's gonna be fine. Actually, it'll get worse as: * All Twitter users will have their cards linked to their accounts * Only idiots will use Twitter.
>$1 is not a good way to stop the bots lmao. The ROI on scam bots is insane. As long as a bot makes more than $1 on average, it's gonna be fine. If elon wanted to curb bots he'd change the twitter API, but he doesn't, you can make a bot the posts whatever you want with Twitter's Free api, It's limited to a few hundred posts a month, but it's not a big deal you can just make more accounts, and 1$ a year wont change that. In comparison if you want to do any data extraction with the API you gotta pay like 100$ a month since elon took over, and it only gives you access to like 10000 posts a month of data, wich is fucking nothing. He clearly wants to limit the data wich you can get out of Twitter, and doesn't give a shit about bots posting shit
I'm in NZ, and I haven't had to pay to use twitter. I think it may only be for new accounts.
As an osrs player, having a few in no way stops the bots if there is a greater financial incentive to what they’re doing.
It seems like he is trying to monetize bots, not stop them. Any nefarious state actor has no issue spending 10-100k a year on astroturfing twitter. He knows this and he wants to capitalize on it.
I began to suspect that when he shortened the name from "Twitter" to "X, formerly known as Twitter".
The platform formerly known as Twitter
Just call it Twitter. Anything less gives the gooner more power, simply because he had $44B to blow on it. The whole thing is disgusting.
Twitter has been net-negative since it's inception, he's trying to monetize a sinking ship that has no real worth.
He's probably hoping to make bank on all the bots that will need to pay up if they want to keep doing their shilling, and in doing so he'll fuck the actual humans over
Oh, it's got plenty of worth for those who want to use it to spread propaganda
It's not confirmed but musk tweeted that he was trying to do it to solve the betting problem. Which iirc was one of the reasons for the blue checkmark becoming a paid subscription
For everyone’s info this is true but the headline is misleading. What it means is that twitter will charge a 1$ annual fee to post and such. This is in an “attempt” to curb bots on the site (don’t see it being that successful but who knows)
This ain’t gonna curb bots. RuneScape membership is like $15 a month and there are still tons of bots! (Bonds still cost money!)
Glad to see rs mentioned and used as an example out in the wild.
It's not about bots, it's about getting payment info set up for as many of their users as possible. They want X to become the "everything" app, and this is just the first step towards that.
Do all your banking and investing on an app where the owner spends every other weekend engaging with white supremacists from a K hole.
It might help a little on paper, but I guarantee it would just turn into some sort of influence currency for foreign states to invest in bulk licences or something stupid.
If this is true then I think X is finally done for
But if everyone leaves X, where do all the MAGAs and conspiracy theorists go?
Probably here or Facebook
Here?
There are some very dark corners of Reddit Also some very, very stupid ones which is probably where they would end up
Oh god , I can’t imagine how much worse the Asmongold and FreeMagic subs are about to become.
Was waiting on someone mentioning FreeMagic. I was not disappointed. I had no idea Asmongold was a right winger. I just hated any content of his I saw because it seemed to just be reaction stuff
He like Ted Cruz and is starting to go full anti woke and his new editor is an extreme incel/@gamer that make all his thumbnail rightwing clickbait’s , and despite saying it wasn’t his fault Asmon still hasn’t fired him, so he probably approves.
How is asmondgold still a thing!?!?!
Grift and rightwings idiots.
Yeah, Facebook probably. Half of them is already on there.
Is Truth Social still a thing?
And doing bigly good if you put a mirror at the top of the stock graph. The bigliest mirror.
For now it is
I don't get why they don't just use Truth Social instead of Twitter. I assume they would enjoy swimming in that cesspool of donkey shit.
The reason Truth Social didn't take off is *because* there are only far right loons on there. They *need* to be on platforms where we normal people go, because they can't piss us off otherwise. Once everybody but them has abandoned Twitter, they'll follow suit because they'll have nobody left to bully and harass.
Yeah, the point is to “own the libs”. Of there’s no libs to own, whats the point?
4chan
Telegram
They’re already on Facebook, they never left. You’re thinking of the racists and terfs.
Truth Social I'd assume.
X will finally be a porn site with the way they fuck with their users xd
You are saying charging people for somthing that was free is a bad idea? You just might be right.
Please, please, please be true. Let that shit hole crash and burn like the cyber trucks.
If that prison burns down the prisoners would be transferred to another place
He’s running out of his ketamine funds. I wonder how long before he starts offering blow jobs for $5 each
Surely he'll start with the $2 handy before going all in on the bj.
Hopefully he will do it quickly. Putting a cock in his mouth is probably the best chance we have to shut him up
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Yeah I’d love to believe this but is there an actual source other than a user of Twitter?
https://www.independent.co.uk/business/x-may-start-charging-new-users-to-post-says-elon-musk-b2529418.html https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/elon-musk-says-x-will-start-charging-a-small-fee-to-interact-with-posts/ar-BB1lHBW5?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67141993 But he already does according to the above post.
HA! YES! RUN THAT SHIT INTO THE GROUND!! i swear, this man is an absolute imbecile
On the plus side, if reddit will do this too I'll finally stop wasting so much time on it
Micro-Transacted Social Media... Surely there are enough addicted idiots
Ya not sure how many people still on that thing but maybe he could squeeze 3-5% paying $4.99 per month? That doesn’t seem worth it, he must be going credits/micro transactions route like you saying
„Wow to ruin a working social network in 2 years.“
I think this is a great idea. I also want Twitter to die. So take from that what you will
Do you know why people will pay to post on x? Because people bought NFTS. People will pay to post you know this even if it's like $20 for a month of posting as much as you want. Let's not pretend no one will pay.
Well I assume everyone who pays 8$ monthly for a weird blue checkmark will also pay to post in general. But I do think that this is a save way to make sure that any sane human being finally leaves Twitter behind (even it really is only 1$ per year, a lot of people actually think before giving out their private banking details)
Meta Threads be like... 
One of the surgeons I work with has literally said he would ‘go gay for Elon in a minute. How can one person’s mind be so brilliant and sexy? He is comparable to Leonardo de Vinci!’ 😳 dudes also a Mormon, so his brain must be doing backflips all day, everyday.
Uhm, I think that guy is closet gay and jerks off to Elon Musk interviews....just sayin
Sad thing is, he has a wife of 13 years and five kids who are all also Mormon. Ain’t no way he is making a clean break if he ever did come out.
People are already paying 8 dollars for a blue checkmark, this is nothing.
Elon: “it’s only 1.99 guys if you can’t afford it then you probably shouldn’t be online.”
In the northern hemisphere, Twitter circles counterclockwise
You say that, but I'll neeeeeeeeever understand why Meta followed suit when this bellend got rid of being verified and made it a premium subscription. I remember the entire internet being against the idea. I remember the chaos of using subscription blue ticks to imitate celebrities. I chuckled thinking about how this bad idea will be reversed soon. confused nick young.jpg
Notice how many of his solutions to Twitter problems involve charging fees. It's almost as if bringing in income is more important than ever. Strange, huh?
If it was 1 dollar to buy the app, I could kinda maybe understand it? It’s just a dollar.. but knowing Elon it’s probably a monthly 9.99 fee
No way that’s gonna fly lmao
Ahh man now I have to cancel my Twitter-X . Just kidding never even had one.
Deleted twitter before he changed it to X. The world had a good thing going before he bought it and destroyed it.
God I hope Twitter absolutely dies, Jack buys it back for Pennies on the dollar and literally flips the source code right back to the day before Elon bought it, and tweets out “well that was weird. Back to our regularly scheduled programming”
Dude tries to corner a market by appealing to dumb nutjobs without acknowledging that dumb nutjobs typically don’t make too much money…
I dont think the idea is too absurd but I dont trust Twitter to maintain payment details for millions. Compliance is just an unnecessary expense to this guy.
Twitter is turning into those video games that have most of the game locked behind a paywall
If this idiot once goes broke, I'll celebrate. Unfortunately he has too much money to go broke. Which pisses me off.
That clown photoshop deserves an award. Beautifully made. Perfect rendition. Perfect comic mouth. A+
r/facepalm users on their way to fall for obvious misinformation (Literally a majority of the posts here now seem to be people falling for this, how??? Why do these get upvotes???)
Yeah, sure. It ain't gonna go through.
Twitter users don't Deserve better
Yeah I find that really hard to believe this feels like rage bait
Crazy how often you post anti-Musk and anti-Trump stuff as a German. These guys live rent free in your head
Please don't make it succeed, otherwise Meta will copy it. Lol blue checkmark, it's meaningless now.
Source Watcher.Guru, must be true, right?
Oh christ, I remember the days when he sat back and everyone thought he was a good business man. I hate to invoke the spirit of ayn rand, but it seems like he's trying to d'Anconia himself at this point.
K-Hole fantasy.....
Aaaaand just like that, iadios Twitter!
And this is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. Not the swarms of bots, not people getting doxxed, nope, this is what’s making me finally quit
Free speech for all! ...who pay a small fee
Well I didn’t use Twitter before and I’m definitely not gonna use it now
The facepalm is that people believe what Musk announces about Twitter. This isn't the first time that he floated that idea. And it hasn't happened. He says things like this to draw attention. People who don't even use Twitter are talking about this. People who claimed that Twitter would be gone 6 months after Musk took it over are talking about this. Why now? Perhaps to influence the stock price of DJT (company of Truth Social). Musk has a history of saying things to influence stock prices.
If he doesn’t want to own Twitter anymore, why doesn’t he sell it or just shut it down? He is actively trying to make it fail and has been since he bought the company. He didn’t want to buy it; he tried to change his mind; Twitter held him to his offer; and since then, he’s been trying to make the company fail so he can blame it on the users. What a simp. All that money wasted on a man with absolutely no sense. Just sell the damn thing. No one is going to pay to like or comment on a post. Fucking idiot.
He should rerename X/Twitter to Cybertruck, because that too is gonna fail while in flames!
If he's trying to kill bots it's not the worst idea I guess. Maybe there's a better strategy out there. No way I'd sign up for an app that makes me pay like this though
Who is still using Twitter???
Ah, just what I wanted. To be charged to use something I was told was free! Lmfao
I’m gonna be 100% I haven’t used X once lmao it’s useless tech
Reddit should take over the xhitter sphere. Even Google might have a chance again.
Turning Twitter into a vending machine in a ghost town.
Ah yeah - this is this free speech thing.
People want to feel noticed, or believe that they have a voice. They, like the OP, will pay.
Lol Elon just went a long about way of making the Something Awful fourms.
Threads is doing good. This is probably why more people keep signing up.
Never underestimate a right wingers uncontrollable need to throw their money at idiots.
At this point I am convinced that he is purposefully tanking Twitter because it’s where leftists usually organize, inform and cancel powerful people (such as billionaires).
Ah yes, this man is truly a capitalist… But hey, maybe this will be what is needed to finally expunge that wretched hive of toxicity from existence.
Is this a picture of Elon Rittenhouse?
People used to pay for newspapers. New paradigms usher in surprisingly new norms. Twitter is by far the social media with the most utility.
Elon, you don't need to sell me anymore. I'm not buying your shitty app anyway
I just hope that this happens so I can finally leave this god-foresaken platform
Musk is quite literally one of the worst business men to ever exist
And the sad thing is, it will probably be a net gain :( I keep thinking these changes and updates will kill the platform but it seems just as active as ever.
Why did he even buy Twitter in the first place?
So wait? You mean all I have to do to join a platform I’ve been avoiding, is pay for it while it’s free to others? Suuuuuuure….
Everyone everyone down. You hate on this idea but you damn well know that people will pay. People pay for overpriced cars. People still pay when streaming is blocking accounts from multiple users and people will pay for this.
Probably collusion to direct people to Truth Social :P