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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by stehtisch123 on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:57PM (#35047471)
Interesting how everyone was calling musk a madman for paid twitter accounts and suddenly its a trend. I think it makes sense too, but sure as hell I am not going to be part of it this time around
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by barbazoo on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:00PM (#35047522)
Obviously not everyone called him a madman. Personally I found it weird to tie SMS 2FA to paid accounts.
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by nickthegreek on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:04PM (#35047556)
When 20% of account holders pay for access, wake me up. It's not a trend until people actually spend money.
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by marginalia_nu on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:07PM (#35049128)
I doubt 20% of twitter account holders actively use twitter.
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by geraldcombs on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:02PM (#35049689)
Are 20% of Twitter account holders flesh and blood?
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by themitigating on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:02PM (#35047543)
But this hasn't happened, it's the opinion of this person who wrote the article. That doesn't vindicate Musk
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by nemothekid on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:29PM (#35048665)
>Interesting how everyone was calling musk a madman for paid twitter accounts and suddenly its a trend.

I think you are taking a very interesting spin on the situation and leaving out many factors; notable blowing up advertising revenue to the tune of several hundred million dollars per year in exchange for a program that is now pulling ~30M/year.

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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by kenhwang on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:08PM (#35049135)
> notable blowing up advertising revenue to the tune of several hundred million dollars per year

Twitter booked ~$4b/year in advertising revenue before Musk.

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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by billfor on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:58PM (#35050095)
How would you know what Twitter booked with Musk, now that it is a private company and they don't have to report it, other than rumors and heresay?
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by Invictus0 on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:03PM (#35050127)
Rumors and hearsay aren't worthless when they're published in the Wall St Journal, which has the ability to vet its sources.
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by ben_w on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:31PM (#35048694)
I remember, back in the days when slashdot was the sole filler of the role now dominated by Hacker News, people would sarcastically respond to ideas for how to "solve spam" with a long list of things, checking whichever options applied this time.

I wonder how such forms would be filled out these days, in response to ideas like these?

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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by yrdmb on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:20PM (#35049269)
People called musk a madman for paying a huge premium for twitter.

> suddenly its a trend

How many people do you know that are paying for social media? I personally know none.

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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by zelag on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:26PM (#35049333)
I personally know no one that owns a Ferrari. Does that mean no one buys a Ferrari?
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by oxfordmale on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:32PM (#35049389)
You have seen Ferraris on the road, despite not knowing someone who owns one.

There will always be a subgroup of people that will pay for social media, either because their work pays for it or because it is crucial enough for personal reasons.

I am happy to pay for social media if there is zero tracking and zero advertising. However, so far advertising is way too lucrative, so this won't happen.

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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by yrdmb on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:32PM (#35049382)
> Does that mean no one buys a Ferrari?

No. It just means there isn't a trend of people buying ferraris.

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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by robotnikman on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:04PM (#35049701)
It feels like it might be one of the best ways to combat bots and spammers right, and also avoids the life impacting edge cases when a real person gets banned by whatever automated system with no hope of recourse.
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by kridsdale1 on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:10PM (#35049752)
This was the original finding of paid accounts for SomethingAwful forum. 21 years ago.
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Re:Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response by robotnikman on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:29PM (#35049900)
It seems to have worked too. Originally free accounts were great for getting people to sign up on social media websites. Well now it seems like we are approaching saturation, and most people with internet have an account on the most popular social media sites. Probably a good time to go back to paid accounts again.
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