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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 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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