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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by bathtub365 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:46PM (#37923943)
WhatsApp did the $1/yr thing a long time ago. Here is an article from 2016 about them scrapping it.

https://venturebeat.com/mobile/whatsapp-subscription/

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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by Freedom2 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:49AM (#37924954)
This might be different though because this is led by Elon Musk, who has always somehow managed to come out well despite bad looking decisions,

Like pard68 though, I have no skin in the game and have also given up on social media.

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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by rsynnott on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:46AM (#37926248)
... "This bad idea is actually good because Naughty Old Mr Car is magic" is a _hell_ of a take. Perhaps companies should simply have their policies dictated by that octopus that predicted World Cup game outcomes.
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