I mean we don't get to see how much our supermarkets mark up a bottle of milk or a packet of cereal from the price the manufacturer sells it at. Likewise we don't get to see how much Apple's slice of the pie is within the advertised price (although it's no secret that it is 30%).
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Honestly I am struggling to think of reasons to keep my Twitter account, let alone pay for a subscription. Currently I use it as a kind of local news update, and during certain emergency incidents it has been helpful. That's it. I suppose there's always Facebook.
And what do you get for those $7 even if you don't pay via iOS?
Nothing. The blue checkmark has lost it's meaning since you can P2W.
Nothing. The blue checkmark has lost it's meaning since you can P2W.
Been on Twitter since mid 2009.
Used it a lot every day.
Frankly I’m just waiting for another platform to get up and running so I can leave Twitter.
Don’t care if it’s Post (got my invite but Open Sesame button doesn’t work for me) or Mastodon (was put off by the odd complexity of sign up but finally decided to set up an account but I don’t use), or some other.
I don’t think Musks latest money got nothing is going to stem the user hemorrhage that will come from competitive competition to his developing looney bin.
Used it a lot every day.
Frankly I’m just waiting for another platform to get up and running so I can leave Twitter.
Don’t care if it’s Post (got my invite but Open Sesame button doesn’t work for me) or Mastodon (was put off by the odd complexity of sign up but finally decided to set up an account but I don’t use), or some other.
I don’t think Musks latest money got nothing is going to stem the user hemorrhage that will come from competitive competition to his developing looney bin.
Same here. I used it for customer service questions mainly. I’d have to call them 99% of the time anyways, so deleted it was.
Thanks to Elon, lots of people already checked out Mastodon and discovered its federated system is actually a lot more robust and powerful than Twitter’s system. One might think of Mastodon being some Twitter Classic but it’s way more than that.
I had discovered Mastodon a couple of years ago but disregarded it as some other minor system. Only because of Elon I took a second look And discovered the beauty of that system. I won’t miss Twitter.
It’s not new what Twitter is doing … apps have been doing that for decades, YouTube does the same thing for its Premium service.
Ironically Apple might benefit more from Twitter users not getting Twitter Blue and seeing 50% more Apple ads.
Seems like the best solution and all achieved without the needless wrecking of iOS security by allowing side loading.
People waste there money on all sorts of things, and to get the blue mark that I am sure many will see as some sort of status symbol will probably sell reasonably well. Of course I could be wrong, but I don't think it is a far stretch when people pay Apple for this https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MM6F3AM/A/polishing-cloth
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I think that is fine. If you don't post much, there is no real need to pay for a sub. The idea of the sub is simple - accounts that are subbed have their comments pushed to the top, accounts that do not, have their comments pushed down. The idea is that most bots will not be subscription accounts, so their junk comments will be pushed down - and most people don't scroll to the end of a long list of comments - so most people will not see the bot comments. Hackers with deep pockets will still pay for bots - but I think it may make it easier for Twitter to spot them - most people have only so many bank accounts, or payment methods - at some point, they can start finding relationships between multiple accounts and start taking them down. Who knows how this will go, but at least Twitter is taking the bot problem far more seriously than they were.
Like you, I'm not planning to have a subscription, but I can still access interesting stories, and comments from people doing interesting research.
$11.00 or month or for free, Twitter is a toxic no go for me.
Musk did this after he came begging to Apple for them to advertise?
Brilliant. /s
Tinder does it the same way. On the website the subscriptions are about a third cheaper than in the app.
It is a nice way to expose the "Apple Tax".
It is a nice way to expose the "Apple Tax".
FWIW (likely not much) I already do this with all my subscriptions. All my sign-ups and renewals are done through the web so that the service providers don’t have to relinquish 30% to Apple.
That being said, I ain’t paying for Twitter… anywhere.
That being said, I ain’t paying for Twitter… anywhere.
Yeah it's a higher price via Apple… but if you need to buy it for some reason, but no longer trust the Musk Twitter variant with your payment details, ending your subscription is easy and assured on iOS.
Serious question for the muskets (Muskets are Elon fans)
What value does paid twitter have for normal people?
What value does paid twitter have for normal people?
So is the new Twitter business model to chase away most users and make anyone left pay more?
I wonder if the next release will offer a free tier that’s ad supported.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm