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Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)
submitted 2 years ago by t4k3@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform.

“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots," said Elon. I can’t believe that this is the only solution he can think of.

Dealing with bots would be Elon Musk’s responsibility, considering he’s the only one profiting significantly from X, not us. Elon Musk steals our data and censors each of our posts, now he even expects us to pay to clean up the mess he created.

Plus, the problems with X go beyond just bots. The algorithm and programming decisions are negatively impacting user experience and manipulating people’s minds.

We want a town square where everyone is free to have & voice an opinion. I do not believe we have to pay ”a small monthly payment” for such a place, especially in a country that should value these freedoms & suppressing ideas.

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

I would sooner chew on glass than pay for Twitter.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

Hell. No.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He went from saying he was going to build an 'everything app' to charging for something that does nothing and is shit at it.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Hell no, and that's why I love the idea and definitely encourage them to do so.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The correct answer is no.

[–] jazzkob@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

no I'm not willing to play for using twitter, I'll just delete my account.

as for the "it's the only way to combat the army of bots" comment - how is that the army of bots only became a problem after twitter became x? i never had a problem before but now my every tweet is liked by a kinsley, madeline, josephine, mia or layla. it's crazy.

oh, maybe that's one of the microservices they shut down

[–] Moof_Kenubi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to the influx of users to Bluesky and Mastodon, keep it up lemonsuk

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Sorry Jovan Musk, from Calvin Klein! The answer is nooooOOOOOoooo. Old Twitter is dead. You killed it, and now you're trying to sell me its smelly corpse.

[–] wolre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As I understand, even when paying you would still see ads and not get any benefits over what Twitter is at the moment whatsoever. I honestly cannot imagine the platform retaining many users after such a drastic step.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Oh god, please do this.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You couldn't pay me to use that cracker platform. I thought reddit was bad after they fucked over all the moderators, then comes xhitter with open pedo-nazis being boosted to the front page. Both are shit for the same reason and i'm never going back to either.

[–] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago

You couldn't even pay me to use Twitter

[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would pay to not use it.

[–] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I'd happily pay a monthly fee for twitter to stop existing

[–] __init__@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Maybe I will finally go delete my old account.

[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I left already. I'm certainly not paying to use something so terrible

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

$0.

Twitter like so many other social media companies came into being with users as the product. As that fails (both because Elon is an idiot and because consumer knowledge has improved), these companies are finding that they never really had a sustainable business model.

Let the market work it out, as the overlords are so fond of.

[–] jinarched@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Nah, I'll definitely get that latte instead.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I won’t even use it for free, so paying seems unlikely.

[–] the_robomafia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ll just leave these here

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago

Why would you leave this trash here?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Hell nar we got mastadon

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've never used it. This doesn't make me want to start

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It was trash before he bought it. I quit before then and nothing I've seen makes me wanna go back

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