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Re:Twitter begins rolling out $7.99 Twitter Blue plan with v... by arriu on Saturday November 05, 2022 @04:36PM (#33485396)
The problem with relative numbers is that they provide a mechanism to increase absolute numbers without impact to the percentage. Thus, “fewer ads” today could be more tomorrow if we consider that we don’t know the absolute number
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Re:Twitter begins rolling out $7.99 Twitter Blue plan with v... by fasthands9 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:06PM (#33485745)
fwiw Elon promises "half" the ads, not just fewer. If Twitter increase the total number of ads, as you say, then the value proposition of this arguably goes up.

Regardless I think the problem is ads on a site like Twitter aren't really worth paying to skip. I have Spotify premium because it really is annoying to listen to an unskippable audio ad in the middle of a playlist, but scrolling past a promoted tweet is not much different than scrolling past a tweet by a follow that is about something I do not care about.

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