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Re:Soon, you'll have to pay to DM people who don't follow yo... by ksaj on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:30PM (#36319141)
The already-existing echo chamber will become unbearably loud.

Also, music, movie and TV fans will have to go somewhere else if they're going to be charged for simply @-ing or #-ing a celebrity.

Elon has had a long string of bad ideas for Twitter. His refusal to pay rent suggests he knows how this all turns out in the end.

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Re:Soon, you'll have to pay to DM people who don't follow yo... by jlick on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:35PM (#36319172)
Tagging with @ or # is not the same as DM which is a private message seen only by sender and recipient.
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Re:Soon, you'll have to pay to DM people who don't follow yo... by ksaj on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:12PM (#36319499)
Good point. I came back to correct this 'cos I was thinking about it over dinner. I'll leave it as is since you beat me to it, and it is still worth some thought and discussion.

It's already pretty close to what you can configure yourself right now, before it becomes a globally imposed setting. So I'm (currently) less concerned about what this change in policy will mean.

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