Elon Musk Takes Even More Desperate Actions To Force People To Pay To Use Twitter
Elon Musk is getting really desperate to get people to pay to use Twitter. In his latest “Hail Mary” to get you to pay up, Elon’s decided to do the following:
Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations.
The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.
Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.
So let’s think about this. Elon Musk is basically going to force Twitter users to pay up by keeping them from voting in polls and not showing them in the “for you” recommendations. I’m pretty sure that this is going to have the opposite effect. As in people will say that it’s not worth being on Twitter if Elon’s going to do this and instead of paying him $8 ($11 if you’re on iOS) a month to be on Twitter, they will instead run to Mastodon. Which appears to already be happening based on this:
For the last week or two, Mastodon has had somewhere between one and two thousand new accounts created every hour. You have to assume those are Twitter users who are fleeing the platform because of Elon’s behaviour, his idiotic policies, or instability of the platform. Such as what happened this morning according to Down Detector:
I am not sure what happened, but clearly something did an hour ago. And I expect this sort of random instability with Twitter to become more and more prevalent. All of that combined will diminish Twitter’s value to users and send them to greener pastures with more stable leadership. That in turn will reduce the value of Twitter to advertisers and deprive Elon of cash. And Twitter will die as a result and Elon will seen as a loser. Which will be a major blow to his fragile ego that I am not sue that he will be able to cope with.
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Elon Musk Takes Even More Desperate Actions To Force People To Pay To Use Twitter
Elon Musk is getting really desperate to get people to pay to use Twitter. In his latest “Hail Mary” to get you to pay up, Elon’s decided to do the following:
So let’s think about this. Elon Musk is basically going to force Twitter users to pay up by keeping them from voting in polls and not showing them in the “for you” recommendations. I’m pretty sure that this is going to have the opposite effect. As in people will say that it’s not worth being on Twitter if Elon’s going to do this and instead of paying him $8 ($11 if you’re on iOS) a month to be on Twitter, they will instead run to Mastodon. Which appears to already be happening based on this:
For the last week or two, Mastodon has had somewhere between one and two thousand new accounts created every hour. You have to assume those are Twitter users who are fleeing the platform because of Elon’s behaviour, his idiotic policies, or instability of the platform. Such as what happened this morning according to Down Detector:
I am not sure what happened, but clearly something did an hour ago. And I expect this sort of random instability with Twitter to become more and more prevalent. All of that combined will diminish Twitter’s value to users and send them to greener pastures with more stable leadership. That in turn will reduce the value of Twitter to advertisers and deprive Elon of cash. And Twitter will die as a result and Elon will seen as a loser. Which will be a major blow to his fragile ego that I am not sue that he will be able to cope with.
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This entry was posted on March 28, 2023 at 11:11 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Twitter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.