Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features

This is a great way to completely kill growth.

Most people will absolutely not pay for a social media account, even if it is just $1 a year (which, let's be honest, will rise in price quickly).

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This is a great way to completely kill growth

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TD as we know it would not exist if another site had not started charging

I would pay that

Elons on fire with X

Will be the first trillion dollar app

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Here comes the posts where broke arse muhfrickas tell one of the richest billionaires in the world how to do business.

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Elon's money is largely backed by massive government subsidies.

Twitter's valuation went from 44 billion dollars at the time of purchase to 4 billion dollars. He managed to devalue the company 90% in less than a year and a half. He is not a good business man

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At least he is trying things to make it work. At worse, it folds which it was always going to do.

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And of course, taking the brand name that everyone knew, that was so ingrained in culture that it turned to a verb associated with using your service, and changing it to a letter was a big step in those attempts.

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Here comes the posts where broke arse muhfrickas tell one of the richest billionaires in the world how to do business.

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First of all while a billionaire obviously has a good grasp on things, it doesn't mean they are know all. And they are not successful in EVERY business opportunity they take. And that's okay, you learn from it.

Second, people can have opinions. I am not an idiot who just thinks "Well I trust them so I don't have to know anything because that person has a lot of money so let me blow him".

So go frick yourself.

You're just pissed because he's not a progressive Marxist

I’m guessing stopping bots and troll accounts, proving real usage and real engagement is the way to then be able to attract advertisers back and be able to charge more for impressions/engagement because there’s more trust in the usage

he’s been focused on bots/fake usage ever since he even hinted at buying Twitter…so I assume they have explored all the options to stop bots and nothing has worked to make dent so this is the next step. It’s not about the money from subscriptions…the process of having to enter payment will stop the mass bot troll farms and $1 means more in the developing countries those come from