Oso planning to go pro
*blue check marks if you pay a subscription fee of $5 per month," I would grumble but likely pay it. I guess my point is that he should be charging the consumers of content - not the creators.
What Elon is doing seems completely backwards. They are CHARGING people create the content that drive people to the platform.
For a guy who's purports to be so smart, Musk sure seems to be an idiot regarding this. No understanding of what public square or free speech is, no recognition that monetizing the platform isn't best done by charging the people that give it value, and trying to negotiate this in public while responding to a Stephen King tweet is just idiotic.I remember someone once describing Musk as "a stupid person's idea of a smart person" and it has never felt more apt than the past couple weeks.
He's playing chess while you are playing checkers, my friend
I really don't get why everyone is upset.Twitter is like a newspaper. You don't like the content? You don't like what they charge? Then don't subscribe to it.
Uh...they don't charge for it. Do you not understand Twitter?What Elon wants to do is charge the people who create the newspaper.
Ok, if you don’t like it, don’t use it. If it is worth the cost, people will flock to it.
Google has free search and paid search. It’s not all free. Charging a fee to post your content to reach millions is a commercial bargain, will remove many fake accounts (and multiple accounts…trolls will need an identifiable form of payment), and will improve content and targeting. Stephen King cannot afford $8 per month to pump his books and movies? Oh, the woe and injustice.
Question about twitter: Do content creators get paid by Twitter, like on other platforms?
No, and that is what I said above. If Musk wants to make the checkmark profitable, charge the CONSUMERS a fee that can be shared with verified content creators. His idea is going to prevent people from getting verified.
I honestly don't see to many people paying a premium to follow people.