Take a look at Linkedin, they make tonnes of revenue from premium features. The problem is that Twitter suddenly deciding that it's going to create a brand new revenue stream by charging for features that don't exist is about as sane a strategy as me deciding I'm going to start developing gills before my next swimming lesson.

Linkedin has the CVs -- the content i ve seen there is laughable. Twitter can be compared to Wordpress, in which people invest time in making an online presence and following. But it seems easy for them to leave twitter and take their audience too - and many people do it with substack etc. I think introducing payments will change the dynamics of their crowd, which is basically a mob.

The thing with LinkedIn is that I could see paying for it, because you could make a connection with actual monetary value (The ability to get a job at a higher salary).

Seems like the payment is the opposite of what it should be. Twitter is collecting data on me and selling it to other businesses. They should be paying ME.

Twitter is worth paying for when you leave a not addictive session on the app in better condition than you arrived. What if Elon M. unlocks access for Twitter to China at $8 a month?

My Tweets are edgy and don't look great for advertisers lmao. Why should Twitter keep me?

people pay for dopamine hits every day just cause it’s not yours doesn’t mean no one likes it

people are actually freaking out that they might lose their blue checkmarks

more like they're freaking out they'll lose the status from having something not everyone can buy

And if you're paying for it, you're still the product.

Just a product with slightly less disposable income.

You're still the fucking product even if you pay for it. They're not going to track you any less. They'll just show you fewer overt ads. But now every spammer will get "priority speech" so the end effect is you'll see the same or more actual ads.