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X will make audio and video calls a premium subscriber-only feature
(techcrunch.com)
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Isn't this a complete waste of money? With all the thousands of ways to make a video/audio call for free, who would want to pay a subscription for that? Both parties need to be subscribed too, the user pool is extra small. A troll doesn't have friends to call, what's the purpose of this?
If you're paying for video or audio calls, you're doing it because you want features or privacy. I doubt Twitter offers more features, and I know they won't offer more privacy.
Everything Musk has done is a desperate move to milk a little quick cash out of Twitter's most foolhardy users. But hey, they've got a huge user base, and if even 0.1% get on board it'll be a big win, if only short-term.
That said, I think Twitter honestly might be a little ahead of the curve. Seems like the advertising bubble is bursting and I think a lot of ad-supported corporate services are going to come to the same realization soon: that they have been running an unsustainable business for years and they need radical change.
Hopefully most of them will do it more gracefully than this. I just don't see Twitter being culturally relevant in the future. I think this is the biggest waste of social buy-in since Google sabotaged and squandered gchat.