X still struggles to grow subscription revenue

Re:X still struggles to grow subscription revenue by immibis on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:24PM (#41853272)

And the ability to do this is bad, but it's also just normal capitalism which Elon supports. I'm okay with capitalism shifting capitalism supporters.

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Re:X still struggles to grow subscription revenue by DrillShopper on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:39PM (#41853388)

It's also a choice that Twitter made long ago to be funded primarily by advertisers. You'd think the guy that blew billions on the site might have noticed that during the due diligence he most certainly did

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Re:X still struggles to grow subscription revenue by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:39PM (#41853393)

Except it shifts the ones with power towards authoritarianism, not reflection.

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Re:X still struggles to grow subscription revenue by rsynnott on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:16AM (#41858201)

I mean, it's just freedom of association. There are only very limited circumstances where a company can be forced to advertise somewhere (only example I can think of is tobacco and alcohol companies required to pay for anti-smoking/drinking/etc PSAs as part of legal settlements).

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Re:X still struggles to grow subscription revenue by immibis on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:15PM (#41863372)

Which is fine when it's about people listening to you, but bad when livelihoods depend on it. We can do better.

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Re:X still struggles to grow subscription revenue by exe34 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:54AM (#41866798)

livelihoods? didn't he fire most of the employees at Twitter? what about their livelihoods?

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