Originally published at: Twitter to be paywalled for all users, says Musk | Boing Boing
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Charging for something that used to be free: there’s that 5D chess again. It should go over particularly well with the spoiled racist and fascist edgelords he’s trying to attract.
I hope this latest attempt to pander to his creditors contributes to sinking Musk’s Nazi bar.
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Ah yes, the “Flea Market” model of social media. Pay for a booth and hawk* your wares. Just very original and futuristic, and absolutely appropriate and flawlessly analogous to the medium.
Yes, I checked, “hock” is to pawn, while “hawk” means to sell. You’re all lucky I don’t have to pay to add edits!
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A Nazi bar with a cover charge, what could go wrong?
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‘Interesting strategy, Cotten’:
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Yay! This is his best idea yet. Maybe this will finally make twitter everyone’s x.
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As we should all know by now with ‘social media’–there is not really a ‘free’. You either pay money for something or your value is stripped from you in another way.
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And also to expel phlegm. Seems appropriate.
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Musk’s next genius plan will be to retroactively charge for tweets, going back over ten years.
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Dumbest rich man
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And of course he was only speaking to the Israeli Prime Minister about Twitter in the first place because Netanyahu was concerned about the whole “Twitter turning into a Nazi hellscape” thing. Definitely all signs of a thriving social media company with a bright future ahead of it.
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adds it to the list of shit Musk says he’ll do and never does like fix the water in Flint, MI, Hyperloop, Boring tunnels under Miami, etc.
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I don’t think he’s going for an either/or.
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Of course money=speech in the town square of a freeze peach paradise. Color me surprised this libertarian fuckface has the same interpretation as the ghouls who ruled on Citizen’s United.
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Does this decision have any impact on Twitter/X’s usage by politicians? If they’re paying to have their messages posted, does that mean their usage is affected by campaign finance laws as political ads?
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It was “free” in the same way broadcast television is free. People enter into the arrangement with the understanding that the service provider is going to make money selling ads on the platform, and continue using the service only as long as the enjoyment of the content outweighs the annoyance of the ads.
“I’m going to charge people to use an ad-supported service that’s been completely overrun by Nazis” is the worst of all possible business models and is unlikely to succeed.
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Nope, he’s not any dumber than other wealthy people.
Wealth has never required intelligence
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Except that broadcast TV doesn’t (or at least didn’t used to) collect every scrap of information about you into a dossier.
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What do you think the Nielsen ratings were for?
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