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

Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by m3kw9 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:43PM (#23929986)
Could go something like this. Say Elon Musk, he will have a subscription tweet feed that users can subscribe to, all users of the subscription get to see the posts first. The free users will see them after 24hrs. Since twitters strength is real time, they can sell from that strength.
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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by evan_ on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:37PM (#23930662)
there's nothing stopping anyone from building that right now- a private twitter account (e.g. @_celebrity) that only allows certain subscribers to follow, and an API that republishes tweets to the real account (@celebrity) after a time period.
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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by m3kw9 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:18PM (#23931170)
If it’s baked in to Twitter, on every profile page, is different than you having to market it individually.
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