Thoughts on social media sites? UPDATE: Apple, IBM, Disney, etc. stopped advertising on Twitter - Musk suing

[Kagavi]

Looks like Head Twit Elon Musk is headed towards making Twitter/X a paid service for all users.

In other news, I also saw that T2 rebranded to Pebble. This is the one started by former Twitter people. The CEO previously sold companies to Google and Twitter. It's open to all lurkers and IMO they've done an excellent job slowly adding features and managing their tiny user base. They're open to registration now.

Also, Mastodon has added search capability in a new software update and this is a critical step towards widespread adoption if it ever happens. But I still think someone needs to make a better skin for the fediverse. Ex: I believe Firefox was investigating that possibility.

Anything else happening?

 

[Cyclonepride]

Looks like Head Twit Elon Musk is headed towards making Twitter/X a paid service for all users.

In other news, I also saw that T2 rebranded to Pebble. This is the one started by former Twitter people. The CEO previously sold companies to Google and Twitter. It's open to all lurkers and IMO they've done an excellent job slowly adding features and managing their tiny user base. They're open to registration now.

Also, Mastodon has added search capability in a new software update and this is a critical step towards widespread adoption if it ever happens. But I still think someone needs to make a better skin for the fediverse. Ex: I believe Firefox was investigating that possibility.

Anything else happening?

I wouldn't pay a dime for Twitter.

 

[HFCS]

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Photoshop out the perfect 10 "Nova" as a consolation prize and it gets even more accurate. Actually photoshop out the horse too. It's not like ex-Twitter users who don't like paying to support Nazis get a super model and a free horse when they leave.

 

[NorthCyd]

Whelp, that should be the final nail in the coffin for Twitter, or X, or whatever.

 

[exCyDing]

Whelp, that should be the final nail in the coffin for Twitter, or X, or whatever.

There are a whole lot of ways to waste $44B (or whatever Musk paid for Twitter), but this has to be among the most pointless.

 

[HFCS]

Whelp, that should be the final nail in the coffin for Twitter, or X, or whatever.

The only real reason to not migrate to Threads at this point is the trend setters who are hanging onto twitter (understandably because who wants more platforms). The next step will be some reluctantly post everything on both since Threads offers people the same thing for free and with less hate speach, then eventually it'll just be Threads.

All the "technical" reasons are fading away daily and with the skeleton crew Twitter's technical negatives will soon outweigh their competition.

 

[HFCS]

There are a whole lot of ways to waste $44B (or whatever Musk paid for Twitter), but this has to be among the most pointless.

I keep saying all along that the whole thing is no different than the worst poster on CF paying $44B to have unchecked god-mod powers.

 

[cyfanatic]

I wouldn't pay a dime for Twitter either...but I would miss it. That said...a Twitter user sent me an invite code to Bluesky today so I am setting that up. Not a lot of users yet but hope for good things!

 

[SCNCY]

Whelp, that should be the final nail in the coffin for Twitter, or X, or whatever.

I think they'll slink around for while longer until other sites/competitors catch up. It'll be a slower death than the path they are on now.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I wouldn't pay a dime for Twitter either...but I would miss it. That said...a Twitter user sent me an invite code to Bluesky today so I am setting that up. Not a lot of users yet but hope for good things!

I'll miss the various highlights/Cyclones news that I see there, and the breaking news (though you have to wade through a whole bunch of nonsense to figure out what is actually going on).

 

[Malty Flannel]

call me naive but theres no way that twitter switches to pay-only for all users

 

[HFCS]

call me naive but theres no way that twitter switches to pay-only for all users

The little moves they've made towards hiding content pushed me away already.

Even after deleting my acct I'd still at least click on links, read some content and comments...now "X" basically does not exist to me because I don't even click on a link knowing I can't see any discussion.

I went from occasional actual user, to someone who read some content, to "X" does not even exist. I'm guessing I'm not alone.

I'm sure they thought these moves would force me to be an active user or have an account, instead they've just made themselves irrelevant to me.

 

[Cyclonepride]

call me naive but theres no way that twitter switches to pay-only for all users

I saw an article earlier saying that it was under consideration, so maybe this article jumped the gun a bit?

 

[KidSilverhair]

* there’s no way Twitter fires all their coders

* there’s no way Twitter gets rid of verification & just hands out blue checks for $8

* there’s no way Twitter goes back to promoting neo-Nazi content

* there’s no way Twitter’s leader promises to make decisions only when the users agree, then ignores all public input

* there’s no way Twitter will start limiting posts by non-blue-check users, or cut off search results going back further than a couple of weeks

* there’s no way Twitter changes its name to a letter

* there’s no way Twitter’s leader starts openly boosting anti-Semitic views and election fraud conspiracies

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* there‘s no way Twitter switches to pay-only for all users

 

[NorthCyd]

I saw an article earlier saying that it was under consideration, so maybe this article jumped the gun a bit?

Possibly it's a trial balloon to see the response, but you shouldn't need a trial balloon to know what the response is going to be.

 

[JM4CY]

It's been real, Elon. I'm out.

 

[Rabbuk]

Surely this will mean it'll go ad free right

 

[KidSilverhair]

 

[CyCrazy]

Damn, oh well never been on twatter anyway.

 

[JP4CY]

call me naive but theres no way that twitter switches to pay-only for all users

There were a lot of people that didn't even think he'd purchase if, so I wouldn't count anything out.