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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by egypturnash on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:00PM (#12568281)
Whenever people discuss Twitter's finances I wonder what they'd look like if there was a paid tier. Just a few bucks a year to mark your account as Supportin' Twitter. Without necessarily having any other perks. Except maybe "not having any fucking ads". I'd probably do it; I was a paid user of Livejournal for many years when it was Where All My Friends Were.

But no. It's always "monetize by becoming another goddamn channel to advertise to people through".

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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by thr0waway1239 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:43AM (#12570108)
I agree with the "not have any ads which follow you around the internet" as an appeal for the more privacy conscious folks which is probably an idea which is going to get more traction in the coming days...

Even better, actively mock Facebook/Google's privacy track record (while peddling the paid Twitter accounts) like the way Apple did to Microsoft. If you are going down anyway, why not go out with a resounding bang? :-) But you will burn all your bridges. Very few folks have the kind of chutzpah that Steve Jobs had.

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