Ultimately he wants all users to be paying users.
Louis Rossman has stated in a few of his Youtube videos that he would make more money if you sent him $1.00 than if you watched adds in a years worth of videos. I don't imagine that Twitter or Reddit are any better.
I think that what we're actually seeing is the death of advertising supported services. There's just not enough money in adds to be viable and there's no more free investor money to burn.
This is however not something I think we, as consumers, should necessarily celebrate. This also means that we are very likely nearing the end of the "free" web that we are used to.
No, I'm not saying that selling out one's personal integrity is preferable, but if it turns out that advertisement as a business model effectively isn't sustainable, we will just have to accept the reality that we will more and more commonly have to actually pay to access content and services on the web.
This is hilarious
Too bad many good devs and journalists are on twitter mostly, I'm gonna have to create an account just to follow a dev I like...
Unless you guys have a solution to
1)access content without an account
2)"follow" someone, or jist be alerted for new posts (perhaps with a monitoring tool , the kind which scans page for changes?)
Such an amazing platform. ran by a genius.
s/ran/run into the ground/
He's banking on the name "Twitter" still meaning something and there being no viable alternatives. Threads has really shown that twitter isn't as ubiquitous as we all assumed.
Well that's pretty stupid.
Haha wow. What next?!
I'm actually surprised anyone is left on that shell of a platform.
Geez, Elon, I already deleted my account two weeks ago! I don't need more convincing to leave!
Does anyone actually DM in Twitter? I’m sure the checkmark bots do it not realizing 85% of the other checkbots are propaganda bot accounts too lol
If you're one of those artists/animators that, for whatever reason, thought basing the entirety of their commission system via Twitter was a good idea, they're definitely going to be affected.
Time for everyone to turn the page and move forward. No sense in giving Reddit et al anymore brain cycles. We'll all end up back inside of an echo ho chamber before you know it :P
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