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Re:New York City Subway Ends Twitter Service Alerts After Mu... by john_shafthair on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:07PM (#35736419)
Twitter is a discussion forum, or as Musk succinctly put it, "a group text service at scale".

No one goes to Twitter for some hacked-together side channel notifications. Companies leech off it for the reach. If they want the customer base (value) they can pay.

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Re:New York City Subway Ends Twitter Service Alerts After Mu... by rhaway84773 on Friday April 28, 2023 @05:35AM (#35739235)
And companies do pay for the reach. Through ads.

Finding useful information, like whether their commute is affected, is why the Twitter customer base exists in the first place (and no, Twitter isn’t a “group text service at scale”…you know what are group text services? Group text services. Like WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, whatever Google’s group chat of the day is, SMS, etc).

Asking the content providers to pay for the content is completely backwards.

But again, we already knew that Elon doesn’t understand what Twitter is

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