Comment on Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall

• stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not only the value of money; he doesn’t understand Twitter. He’s never been on the side of Twitter that used to joke “Twitter is free!” whenever funny stuff happened on the site. There are whole parts of Twitter he’s never seen, and he thinks his very narrow use case of Twitter is THE way Twitter is used.

  When the running joke used to be “Twitter is free,” no one is going to want to pay for it.

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  • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He surely doesn't understand the value of $20, like how Bill Gates guessed that a banana was probably $10.

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  • Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He fundamentally doesn’t understand what Twitter is/was or does. That’s why this is like watching someone enter a race but keep tripping on their own shoelaces.

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    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nope. Like, he thinks there’s a huge bot problem on Twitter because he has to deal with bots because he’s famous and talks about crypto. Most Twitter users never deal much with bots so it’s not the big concern. But he does, so he thinks blaming bots for all Twitter’s problems is effective.

      I bet he was shocked there was pushback for his API changes when it impacted accounts like the NY subway system, who used it to announce schedule delays. I bet I t never occurred to him people actually used Twitter for something other than shitposting.

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