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(The Daily Beast)   Revenue-wise, Twitter Blue is more like Twitter Red   (thedailybeast.com) divider line
    More: Obvious, IOS, social media platform's subscription service, Twitter Blue, Twitter, Elon Musk's sky-high aspirations, current number of subscriptions, platform's active monthly users, fewer people  
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1010 clicks; posted to Business » on 07 Feb 2023 at 1:53 AM (6 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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2023-02-06 10:07:21 PM  
Well, yeah...they're trying to market "Blue" to their "Red" accounts.
 
2023-02-06 10:20:32 PM  
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2023-02-06 10:21:37 PM  
I deleted that garbage pile the second they removed needing an account to read a full thread.
 
2023-02-06 10:34:21 PM  

arrogantbastich: I deleted that garbage pile the second they removed needing an account to read a full thread.


That's a weird reason. So you liked it when only twitter users could read a thread, but you stopped liking it when anybody could read the thread?
 
2023-02-06 10:35:08 PM  
Also, when did that happen? I thought anybody could always read any thread if they had the link to it.
 
2023-02-07 12:36:38 AM  
People love paying for shiat they always got for free.
 
2023-02-07 1:20:22 AM  
I bought the f**cking $500 Starlink antenna, and pay the stupid $110 per MONTH.

How much is enough?  When does it end?

The least he could do is let us use his damn website.
 
2023-02-07 1:23:13 AM  

jaylectricity: Also, when did that happen? I thought anybody could always read any thread if they had the link to it.


You could start reading it, but they'd throw out the spike strip if you tried to scroll.
 
2023-02-07 2:04:53 AM  
180.000 subscribers ? At 8 bucks a month ? That's embarrassingly low.

Just for a comparison, according to Behind The Bastards, Andrew Tate's Hustler University, as of now and even though he's in prison, has 220.000 subscribers, and they pay 50 bucks a month (11 millions a month in revenue. That's insane)
 
2023-02-07 2:46:37 AM  

jaylectricity: arrogantbastich: I deleted that garbage pile the second they removed needing an account to read a full thread.

That's a weird reason. So you liked it when only twitter users could read a thread, but you stopped liking it when anybody could read the thread?


I think he wrote that backwards.  If you're not logged in you can only read the first few comments before it gives you the "Log in to continue" punch in the face.
 
2023-02-07 3:00:33 AM  
Twitter has always been bad.  It's always been a fascism communications platform.  Your news outlets were surreptitiously held hostage to Twitter and TikTok.  The only escape is to stop consuming processed foods and added sugar.   The health care system can't save you from chronic processed food disease, it's overloaded.
 
2023-02-07 3:28:14 AM  
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2023-02-07 4:10:20 AM  
Pay $8 a month for something you can get for free? Genius!

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2023-02-07 4:12:13 AM  

hlehmann: jaylectricity: arrogantbastich: I deleted that garbage pile the second they removed needing an account to read a full thread.

That's a weird reason. So you liked it when only twitter users could read a thread, but you stopped liking it when anybody could read the thread?

I think he wrote that backwards.  If you're not logged in you can only read the first few comments before it gives you the "Log in to continue" punch in the face.


This is correct but there is a way around that if you use uBlock Origin. It has a "quick blaster" for page elements as well as the permanent custom filter list. It is so friggin awesome. I can't stand most websites without uBlock now.

I have permanently disabled those stupid two to four inch sticky nav headers, footers, sidebars, and that goddam jwvideo player that sites feel the need to pop into the bottom right corner all over the place. They literally don't friggin load and I love it.

For pages that you don't plan to visit often just use the quick delete function to get rid of those overlays hiding the desired content. Good luck and have more fun out there!
 
2023-02-07 6:06:00 AM  
Also 3 of Twitter's top senior software engineers left a couple of days ago. They are usually the ones who know how things actually work behind the scenes and are a source of information for other developers. Probably waited for their previous stock awards to become viable at the beginning of the month before getting the fark out of there.
This is a great example of how an idiot CEO who doesn't know what the fark he's doing is tanking a company or this was his plan all along. I bet it's the former.
 
2023-02-07 6:54:02 AM  
I paid for it when it first came out so I could change my handle to Elon Musk and demonstrate how stupid it is. I immediately canceled my subscription though.

Three months and no payments later... I'm still blue-check "verified" and can edit my tweets (which, not gonna lie, is useful).  So, yeah, it's no wonder the boy-genius is losing money on this bullshiat.
 
2023-02-07 6:56:34 AM  

jaylectricity: arrogantbastich: I deleted that garbage pile the second they removed needing an account to read a full thread.

That's a weird reason. So you liked it when only twitter users could read a thread, but you stopped liking it when anybody could read the thread?


Never said I liked it.
 
2023-02-07 7:01:52 AM  
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2023-02-07 7:22:11 AM  

jaylectricity: That's a weird reason. So you liked it when only twitter users could read a thread, but you stopped liking it when anybody could read the thread?


He wanted to do a thing, so he had to put up with a prerequisite to do so.

One the prerequisite was removed, he got rid of it
 
2023-02-07 7:28:34 AM  
So, Elon is lying about the financial health of yet another company? That's shocking.
 
2023-02-07 8:37:05 AM  
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2023-02-07 8:57:13 AM  
*Tents fingers geniusly*

"Make it more cyber."

..."And I want to see the code."
 
2023-02-07 9:09:45 AM  
What's the point if there's no verification that you are who you say you are?
 
2023-02-07 9:37:55 AM  

centrifugal bumblepuppy: [i.redd.it image 599x557]


We'll make up for it by selling more office furniture
 
2023-02-07 10:01:09 AM  
I saw a funny story over the weekend about all the features the cyber truck is going to have when it gets released 2 years ago or 10 years from now when they will be out of date.
 
2023-02-07 10:26:44 AM  

morg: What's the point if there's no verification that you are who you say you are?


To get stupid people's money.
That's a thing, you know.
 
2023-02-07 10:49:04 AM  
musky doesn't have as many weird fanboys out there as he thought
 
2023-02-07 11:09:34 AM  

jaylectricity: arrogantbastich: I deleted that garbage pile the second they removed needing an account to read a full thread.

That's a weird reason. So you liked it when only twitter users could read a thread, but you stopped liking it when anybody could read the thread?


Yeah, I deleted my account when he, yanno, unbanned the orange treason weasel.
 
2023-02-07 11:13:18 AM  

FatherChaos: Pay $8 a month for something you can get for free? Genius!

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2023-02-07 11:23:46 AM  
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2023-02-07 11:55:40 AM  

centrifugal bumblepuppy: [Fark user image 425x257]


In a more literal sense, I'm for medicating both Elmo and Ivanka.
 
2023-02-07 12:52:28 PM  

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2023-02-07 1:59:08 PM  
IDK might pretty quickly be have of the money they make comes from subscriptions, if advertisers leave
 
2023-02-07 1:59:44 PM  

spongeboob: IDK might pretty quickly be have of the money they make comes from subscriptions, if advertisers leave


Half not have
Don't know if that one is on me or autocorrect
 
2023-02-07 4:19:15 PM  

jaylectricity: Well, yeah...they're trying to market "Blue" to their "Red" accounts.


That's the deal, with his idiotic move, it lost its reason for existing in the first place. All the check mark signifies now is that you paid $8 for a special marker on a free service. It's like the shiat people can buy for assorted video game characters, hats in Team Fortress, IIRC, they do absolute shiat except to tell people that you spend extra money on dumb shiat.
 
2023-02-07 4:23:24 PM  

jaylectricity: Also, when did that happen? I thought anybody could always read any thread if they had the link to it.


Nope, you scroll down 3-4 posts, and get a pop-up to sign in.
 
2023-02-07 4:26:37 PM  

baxterdog: hlehmann: jaylectricity: arrogantbastich: I deleted that garbage pile the second they removed needing an account to read a full thread.

That's a weird reason. So you liked it when only twitter users could read a thread, but you stopped liking it when anybody could read the thread?

I think he wrote that backwards.  If you're not logged in you can only read the first few comments before it gives you the "Log in to continue" punch in the face.

This is correct but there is a way around that if you use uBlock Origin. It has a "quick blaster" for page elements as well as the permanent custom filter list. It is so friggin awesome. I can't stand most websites without uBlock now.

I have permanently disabled those stupid two to four inch sticky nav headers, footers, sidebars, and that goddam jwvideo player that sites feel the need to pop into the bottom right corner all over the place. They literally don't friggin load and I love it.

For pages that you don't plan to visit often just use the quick delete function to get rid of those overlays hiding the desired content. Good luck and have more fun out there!


I've tried that, and totally farked the web page up. I try to blast the pop-up, but then there is a background box. Zap that, then there's some kjnd of weird outline frame. At some pint, I scrw up and get the page clear, but only the part on the screen. I can't scroll. On the one UBlock doesn't get, though, I open the page on FF and choose 'reader mode'.
 
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