Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account

Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by pmlnr on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:53AM (#12978501)

I'm paying for Github and I don't use any of the paid features. Why? Because I want their business to stay. The big difference is GH has a significantly better idea to make money with: paying for progressive, useful enhancements. I don't think you can do that on Twitter; maybe you could have, once. Like showing images in your stream could have been a paid addon. I have no idea if it would have worked or not, but nowadays, if they would want to make money like this, it's probably a paid "pro" account, a badge, practically, because of they go full pay-only, they will lose too many sources of sell-able data.

EDIT: read comment by mi100hael; apparently I need to follow news better, and I'm taking my praises back.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by mi100hael on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:13AM (#12978686)

> I'm paying for Github and I don't use any of the paid features. Why? Because I want their business to stay.

lolwut. GitLab offers for free most of the stuff GitHub makes you pay for. And GitHub is run by a bunch of SJWs that have gone so far as to remove repos because a comment in the code used the word "retard." And despite being a platform for sharing source that hosts many prominent free software projects, the platform is 100% proprietary closed source. They offer absolutely nothing of value that can't be had better elsewhere.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by pmlnr on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:44AM (#12978983)

> so far as to remove repos because a comment in the code used the word "retard."

o.O

I've missed this, reading about it now, and I'm off to modify some subscription settings.

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