Would you pay for X (Twitter)?

[Norman_Conquest]

Musk is in the papers today stating he is going to put a paywall around X and charge all users, would you pay for it? I do have a Twitter account but very rarely go on to it unless there is a link from here or a text I have been sent. I don't follow anyone or browse Twitter so think I would use an online tool to bypass the paywall if there was something I wanted to read.

Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees

Billionaire also says platform has 550 million monthly users generating up to 200m posts a day

www.theguardian.com

 

[TeaCider]

Not a chance.

I actually hope he does it, just to help collapse it.

Awful person.

 

[Cambsred]

I don't think I would. The second it hits a paywall I think content providers will have to look at other platforms that deliver a similar free service.

I get a lot of valuable info from twitter through academia and I think it would be a loss not to have it, but I think the people I follow would go elsewhere as they aim to reach quite a niche population and don't generate money directly from their content.

 

[newyddion]

Tell you what.. i've never seen Elon and Rob in the same room.. coincidence?

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Not a chance.

I actually hope he does it, just to help collapse it.

Awful person.

I get his point on bots and the issues they cause but like you, I would love to see this creep fall flat on his backside

 

[Jedi boro]

Nope

As who will be on it rich cranks and corporate shills

As the only people who will be there will be paying to be there so what’s the motive ???

 

[coluka]

Nope, not a single penny would I pay. I never post on it anyway and only read very occasionally.

 

[Jedi boro]

I get his point on bots and the issues they cause but like you, I would love to see this creep fall flat on his backside

So why scrap blue ticks the the one thing that gave it credibility

 

[Jedi boro]

Nope, not a single penny would I pay. I never post on it anyway and only read very occasionally.

Same here I do like to read it but very rarely if ever post

But the people I like to read prob will leave as well..,

 

[Capybara]

It's pretty much useless now unless you are a registered user. So if, as I did earlier, you go on to a club's Twitter feed to find the latest about a game you are going to later, you'll just get a random post from, say, 2021. And all the other posts are in random order.

 

[joeydiaz]

Absolutely not, plays direct into the hands of Threads as well. The platform of another billionaire reptile.

 

[Zoophonic]

The m

Nope

As who will be on it rich cranks and corporate shills

As the only people who will be there will be paying to be there so what’s the motive ???

His motive is either

A) Try and recoup the lost ad revenue of 2 billion he lost when he took it over or

B) Deliberately run into the ground

If it’s B then he’s doing an excellent job but if it’s A he’s been the worst businessman since Gerald Ratner.

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

If it wasn't going to someone like Musk, possibly.

Not a chance now though and Twitter is my most used social media by a very long way.

 

[Blf]

No. I rarely look at it now and it's free.

 

[Jedi boro]

It how we get the team news in the pub pre match

 

[Steer]

No.

I will miss the balanced, respectful and well though out debate.

 

[Otto42]

No. Tried to keep off it since Musk bought it.

 

[TeaCider]

I almost exclusively use it for football coverage, so it's not a huge loss to me if it does go under.

I wouldn't miss the idiotic comments from randomers from around the world.

 

[Muttley]

Closed my account on it once Musk had opened the gateways for the return of the trolls. I find as a non-user it is sometimes impossible to even see a quoted tweet (or whatever we must call it now). Other than that I don't miss it.

 

[Oooo]

I would suspect that would be the end of Twitter