I would sooner chew on glass than pay for Twitter.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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Hell. No.
Hell no, and that's why I love the idea and definitely encourage them to do so.
The correct answer is no.
He went from saying he was going to build an 'everything app' to charging for something that does nothing and is shit at it.
Looking forward to the influx of users to Bluesky and Mastodon, keep it up lemonsuk
You couldn't even pay me to use Twitter
You couldn't pay me to use that cracker platform. I thought reddit was bad after they fucked over all the moderators, then comes xhitter with open pedo-nazis being boosted to the front page. Both are shit for the same reason and i'm never going back to either.
Oh god, please do this.
$0.
Twitter like so many other social media companies came into being with users as the product. As that fails (both because Elon is an idiot and because consumer knowledge has improved), these companies are finding that they never really had a sustainable business model.
Let the market work it out, as the overlords are so fond of.
I'd happily pay a monthly fee for twitter to stop existing
no I'm not willing to play for using twitter, I'll just delete my account.
as for the "it's the only way to combat the army of bots" comment - how is that the army of bots only became a problem after twitter became x? i never had a problem before but now my every tweet is liked by a kinsley, madeline, josephine, mia or layla. it's crazy.
oh, maybe that's one of the microservices they shut down
I would pay to not use it.
Don't give him ideas.
Sorry Jovan Musk, from Calvin Klein! The answer is nooooOOOOOoooo. Old Twitter is dead. You killed it, and now you're trying to sell me its smelly corpse.
Maybe I will finally go delete my old account.
As I understand, even when paying you would still see ads and not get any benefits over what Twitter is at the moment whatsoever. I honestly cannot imagine the platform retaining many users after such a drastic step.
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I left already. I'm certainly not paying to use something so terrible
I won’t even use it for free, so paying seems unlikely.
Nah, I'll definitely get that latte instead.
I’ll just leave these here
Why would you leave this trash here?
Hell nar we got mastadon
Either pay or get off the Shitter
-Elon Musk
Even if it was free, I wouldn't use it. I'd rather not waste hours of my time in there. And yes, I had that opinion before Musk bought Twitter and renamed it to X (I actually left the platform exactly 24 days before the renaming, the same day that I left Reddit).