Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets
More shit like this and I guess Twitter will be my next one to quit.
Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets
More shit like this and I guess Twitter will be my next one to quit.
@sku_b @maique @peterimoore i get it, they need to get with the times and business models. I guess this is me yelling āget the fuck off my lawn!!ā š
@Gaby @peterimoore @maique I agree with Maique. If anything, Twitter should have been doing it first.
Iām curious as to why itās a bad thing? (note: I havenāt read the article; although, I probably wouldnāt take much from it anyway)
@simonwoods perhaps is the typical reaction to āsomething new and I donāt like it!ā Lol, I should not be doing this anymore , I should know better
@maique most likely , also, I havenāt had a beer since Sunday. Perhaps thatās the problem šš
@Gaby TBH my first reaction was āwhatās the point?ā I could see charging for articles, stories, etc. but for tweets? But I guess Twitter these days has videos and such embedded so maybe āinfluencersā will be able to make money off thatā¦
@jayeless how many followers so you can call yourself an influencer ? I have 206, does that makes me one ? š
@Gaby Hahah well, you could always try charging for your tweets and see how many of those 206 followers will follow through with it? š Realistically I have no idea!
@Gaby Honestly, give me a paid tier of Twitter which eliminates ads and tracking along with some advanced filtering features and Iām in.
@Gaby I figured this is their reaction to things like Substackās paid email newsletters. Maybe a way to keep the journalists on Twitter?
@Gaby Mostly off Twitter these days, but Iāve long wanted a way to pay some creators I love on the platform. Maybe this would enable that?
@peterimoore @gaby Ha! Well itās not like Twitter hasnāt earned cynical reactions to their feature releases. Donāt get me wrong, I still have no reason to think this means things will get better and it definitely does nothing to motivate me to go back there, but if features like this help to chip away at the bad parts of Twitter then Iāll be happy for those who are using the platform.
Also, for me if you take Micro.blog and add some timeline filtering youāll get @sku_bās idea. Only even better. (note: Iām not really interested in having a personal account where there are hundreds of millions of other people)
@simonwoods I feel like this feature will actually encourage much of the behavior thatās lead to Twitter being so terrible. Now you can be compensated for it.
@peterimoore I donāt know. I get the feeling there are a lot of toxic users cleaning up with Venmo links in their bio.