X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features

Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:49PM (#37923089)

Exactly this.

I would be entirely supportive of a model where a social network (not social media) was established with modest annual fees with the condition that the usual privacy violation and targeting and engagement hacking wasn't going to happen.

But that's clearly not what this is.

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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by greenie_beans on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:53PM (#37923127)

i would pay for this.

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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by dgfitz on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @09:04AM (#37928064)

You mean like this?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387723

(app.net)

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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @09:44AM (#37928559)

Yeah I never claimed such a thing is a viable business model. Esp in competition with free (but not actually) mass scale Twitter, FB, etc.

I think you'd have to offer something entirely different that is not in "competition" in any way by not being "alike" at all, but still filling some similar needs.

I personally have never enjoyed Twitter or the kind of service it offered, so would never consider paying for anything which looked like it really. Though I guess I do donate to the Mastodon instance I have an account on, but that's more of a philosophical thing than anything to do with subscribing to a service. I barely use it.

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