Fine by me. Accelerates the process of putting that dumpster fire out of its misery.
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Right up front here, Musk is an absolute idiot, and wrong about almost everything. I am not defending him as a person, and I am not defending his specific plan here to have people pay monthly for their account.
However -- charging a small one-time fee for an actual account with the ability to post is a legitimate avenue to reduce bots. SomethingAwful forums have done this for a long time: an SA account is $10. Doing something like that (maybe not as high as $10), and grandfathering in existing accounts - that could work, because the main thrust would be using the fee as a bot-blocker.
Musk, however, just wants the money, and he's hiding that behind the idea of preventing bots with it.
I’d pay for social media. But not from any of the current giants.
These websites cost a lot to run. They make that money via ads and selling your info. If a new social media came along with a month subscription, no ads, and protected my data then I’d be fine with it. I don’t trust Twitter to do that though. I’d see them collecting the monthly fee, still giving me ads and still selling my data.
you dont charge your product to exist. its clear elon doesnt understand what he purchased
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LoL
I am a hundred percent certain you could seriously damage twitter by seeing of the sprinklers(assuming they ate still installed) because there's no way musk's penny pinching didn't lead him to sell or not set up the special non conductive fire retardant
You're assuming the sprinklers are hooked to anything in the first place.
But really, that would have been handled long before he bought Twitter
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Poor Elon, the man is probably losing sleep over twitter, or x, or whatever the fuck he wants to call this far-right nazi sympathizing website
DEITY$ help anyone I know that starts paying for Twitter. I was ridicule them mercilessly.
$11 for iPhones. L M A O