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Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by ssully on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:22PM (#23930469)
I know people will hate this idea, but I would like to see what it would look like if they limited the amount of tweets a free account was allowed to send and even deprioritize those tweets to only show up on to their followers. Seems like it could curtail a lot of the toxicity. Obviously the other side of that coin is that it could limit discussions and interactions, but maybe it would show how useless a lot of the interactions are on the site.

Of course, I say this as someone who never tweets. I only use Twitter to aggregate news/interesting people. A bigger question is how can they make a user like me pay.

Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by lucasmullens on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:33PM (#23930601)
Sounds like it would give a stronger voice to the wealthy and suppress the voices of the poor who can't afford a subscription.
Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by ssully on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:24PM (#23931846)
This is actually a good point that I didn't consider.
Re:Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad r... by joedevon on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:00PM (#23930960)
Even charge a one time $1 fee to unlock more tweets could help with that.