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Aramis posted:The worst part is, it "could" work if the fee was non-recurring. Pay getting users to pay monthly/annually for service probably could've worked, similar to discord, but the key thing is that it relies on some actual good will from your users so they feel ok about chipping in for non-essential perks. all of the goodwill twitter had was burned up in an instant. the only option left is to extort users by ruining the free experience. there's no way that this won't kill twitter within months. most people aren't going to pay $100/year to use twitter, and the service won't work if all the people who don't pay leave because it sucks.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:This is basically how the premise of Horizon Zero Dawn went down, complete with psycho techbro at the top making dumbass decisions that made everything worse like "lets make all our robots programming completely inaccessible from the outside!" "Except by other robots, we need to make sure a rogue robot can take over others instantly but it would take 500 years for us to do the same" Faro and musk definitely have that same savior complex going on
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like half of twitter hates seeing verified tweets. people literally use 'checkmark' as an insult. the idea that the site will be saved by burying non-checkmark tweets is incredible.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:20
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At but now it’s not for the elites, but the common man.
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Endorph posted:like half of twitter hates seeing verified tweets. people literally use 'checkmark' as an insult. the idea that the site will be saved by burying non-checkmark tweets is incredible. It will just be a mark to show who was the mark and opens them up to relentless bullying. And because most people are going to stay away from it there will likely only be very limited content that can be "pushed to the front", likely leading to unverified users still dominating the timeline. At least that's what I'm hoping. I'm certainly gonna be blocking anyone with a verified icon, just to keep my timeline fun. Though I expect that'll lead to a $12,- extra charge so you can't be blocked or muted.
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$8 equals one free speech, there will be a clarifying constitutional amendment about this once republicans control enough states
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jeffrey should add an $8/mo option on the patreon that adds a blue checkmark next to your avatar, i think some people might actually spring for it ironically
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I feel like a large part of Elon's problem is he's trying to do everything immediately. A gradual introduction of fees or subscriptions to twitter might have been more palatable. Reviewing the workforce and slimming down might have cut costs. But Business Genius decided he had to get everything going to the max within a week. Just total stupidity.
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I really wish I could stop reading people saying DID U KNOW ELON COULD LOSE A LOT AND STILL BE RICH?
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I really wish I could stop reading people saying DID U KNOW ELON COULD LOSE A LOT AND STILL BE RICH? you just mad cause you didn't know that and still don't
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Nov 5, 2022 21:35
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Neil Armstrong once made Musk cry. Moon dude saw through his flim-flam over 10 years ago.
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Neil Armstrong once made Musk cry. Moon dude saw through his flim-flam over 10 years ago. This is a real thing that happened and it's wonderful.
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kazil posted:I feel like a large part of Elon's problem is he's trying to do everything immediately. A gradual introduction of fees or subscriptions to twitter might have been more palatable. Reviewing the workforce and slimming down might have cut costs.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I really wish I could stop reading people saying DID U KNOW ELON COULD LOSE A LOT AND STILL BE RICH? He could win a lot too and he’d still be miserable and trying to get Grimes back
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this is a great take, thanks for posting. it makes the initial motivation really clear. his whole thing, the thing he is actually good at, is mythologising himself, and stock manipulation. so the twitter ‘plan’ has at least some rational basis. but being a moron, he is loving up as usual and letting it spiral way out of control
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I mean Trump has one skill and it’s that he knows exactly How to poo poo talk. Which is one more skill than musk has
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https://twitter.com/thegabecarey/status/1588991350317645824 Everything on that list of features is stupid. Who was asking for longer videos on Twitter? Is that really a thing? Anything longer than a minute and I'm out, and it'd better be bloody funny to even last that long. Also notice how, outside of the checkmark, all of those features are still "coming soon". But pay now and you'll be just like those celebrities, brands, and politicians you love so much! Nobody will be able to tell you apart, finally you will matter and have friends and people will like you, you'll be just like Keanu Reeves
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Bad Purchase posted:
It's so perfect lol
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Steadiman posted:Everything on that list of features is stupid. Who was asking for longer videos on Twitter? Is that really a thing? Anything longer than a minute and I'm out, and it'd better be bloody funny to even last that long. "finally! i am glad i am paying a monthly subscription fee to be better targeted by ads!"
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Very first bullet point is about the ads. And about how they are going to be extremely targeted to you.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean Trump has one skill and it’s that he knows exactly How to poo poo talk.
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I'm sure advertisers are thrilled to hear that ad relevancy matching, you know, the one single thing that makes these platforms attractive in the first place, will be turned off for the majority of impressions.
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Endorph posted:donald trump saw through him I keep wondering if he's gonna let Donald back on twitter, then I remember this and  out loud
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stratdax posted:Lots of coping in this thread. Elon's gonna buy twitter, Trump will get re-platformed, the fascists will be doubly emboldened, twitter will push people towards right wing content and completely suppress anything humane or leftist at all, and twitter will look like /pol/ before long. Get ready for a lot more Marjorie Taylor Greene's in public office. lol just started reading this thread out of curiosity for this dumb gently caress's exploits, this post from april was prophetic
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This is all just so unbelievably stupid on such a fundamental, basic level. Elon obviously does not get Twitter at all. Blue check marks are useful to let me know who the important, noteworthy people are whether they are celebrities, politicians, comedians, well known scientists, or whoever. If you thought this whole time that the blue check was just a piece of vanity bling, then you are a loving moron. I don't want some random Joe dipshit to have a blue check for $8/month, it completely destroys a very large part of Twitter's value. And then relaxing moderation standards to let the nazis run wild while saying "we can't depend on Advertisers, blue checks are $8/month", then being completely stunned when the advertisers who you absolutely did, do, and always will depend on for the vast majority of income all start to nope the gently caress out, like God drat Elon is such a dumbass. He couldn't even wait out the rest of 2022 to learn the business from the inside and really get a good feel for the business, he just thought he was the boy genius who had all the answers.
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xarph posted:Wait are they admitting to potential advertisers that their ads are NOT relevantly targeted by default? aka ads will be just as relevant as they were before, just you'll be given half as many
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Captain Hygiene posted:I keep wondering if he's gonna let Donald back on twitter, then I remember this and He could've done this for a week now and hasn't so it might not happen. Truth Social led by Trump and Twitter by Musk will be 2 warring factions
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Bad Purchase posted:jeffrey should add an $8/mo option on the patreon that adds a blue checkmark next to your avatar, i think some people might actually spring for it ironically This would be great and especially funny when the forums are somehow still here 10 years later when Twitter is long dead and no one knows what the blue checks mean any more, it's become deep forums lore.
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Bad Purchase posted:jeffrey should add an $8/mo option on the patreon that adds a blue checkmark next to your avatar, i think some people might actually spring for it ironically SA basically had this back in the day when people actually cared about reg dates and you could pay $9.11 to change your reg date to 9/11/2001.
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