Subscription plan might not work. My cat has an account @catsoftwitter, and she’s totally broke.
Best comment re purchase yesterday at DM: “Musk should buy YouTube and Facebook too and combine them into “YouTwitFace.”
Wait, what?
So buy Dogecoin?
Subscriptions kill the bots and leftist trolls because the payment could be tracked. Even a .99 cent a month Subscription to post would kill lots of hate.
The way I read it was that the subscription was to obtain the coveted blue checkmark.
Which is fine by me because I always hated the way that Twitter would selectively hand out the blue checkmarks. It was much harder for conservatives to get one but Twitter would give it to just about any leftist.
I’m guessing Musk anticipates an advertising boycott should he not toe the deep state narrative, and therefore needs to line up an alternative. If I were him I wouldn’t require everyone to sign up for a subscription, rather I would grant those subscribing special privileges as an inducement, otherwise it’s likely to shunt its growth.
The usual mindless garbage from the bottom feeders at the Daily Mail?
Yup.
“Other mooted changes include blue verification checkmarks for anyone who subscribes to Twitter’s premium Blue service, which costs $2.99 a month.”
The subscription is for the “premium” service, whatever that means.
Will you excuse me while I laugh at your cluelessness?
“turn HQ into homeless shelter...”
This particular item is a humiliating kick in the crotch!
Killing bots would be good.
I’m not sure if he is saying the whole platform will be subscription only, or if you will just need to subscribe to get the “blue check mark” status.
I suspect Musk will use Twitter as a portal to Starlink.
Think of all the built in customers he just bought.
Plus, with a direct connection to satellites, you won’t get cancelled as easliy.
Never joined Twitter, never will. I had Parler, Gab and Gettr. Got rid of all three in February because I never used them. Been here 24 1/2 years. FR is all the socializing I need.
Yup, I can’t see a subscription service to avoid ads. Perhaps offer both? Log in on subscription and get no ads. Otherwise, ads will be there.
most of what’s in this article is stuff musk was trolling the world with ... i noticed D.M. excluded musk’s notion of removing the “w” from the name “twitter” ...
Not likely to kill Twitter, but it will temporarily reduce its value. Musk will make massive changes, and then offer an IPO to Tesla shareholders. (Funding of his purchase is partly underwritten by his ownership of Tesla shares.) The value of Twitter will increase, and Tesla shareholders will benefit. Musk is not a business dummy.
Depends on how much it costs.