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A comment on Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply. Parent comment

Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by Androider on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:38PM (#23929919)
Even if a few million people signed up for that (which is a stretch IMO), it amounts to chump change that probably doesn't cover the cost of their content moderation team alone. You can't build a business on $12/year.

The trick is to charge Twitter business account $399/mo for something... like a business verified badge or the ability to edit and curate their own posts and replies.

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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by CharlesW on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:56PM (#23930150)
> You can't build a business on $12/year.

And yet they appear to have done that on $0 of user-contributed revenue. Can you help me understand why it's better to leave that money on the table?

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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by tonyedgecombe on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:00AM (#23938900)
Imagine that $12 is to remove ads. That on its own would destroy most of the ad revenue because the people likely to put their hand in their pocket are exactly the ones advertisers want to target.
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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by minikites on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:39PM (#23929938)
>content moderation team

Twitter has one? Could have fooled me.

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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by mdoms on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:52PM (#23930098)
Just 2 days ago the content moderation was in the news including a very controversial hn thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912455

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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by minikites on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:08PM (#23930309)
And before that?
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