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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 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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