Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month

To all complaining that twitter is full of hate. Have you ever tried using twitter without the search feature, or clicking on hashtags? I'm following a lot of interesting people and I find the content fascinating.

I just cannot see myself spending money on a site so full of hate. Everyone these days has a take on everything that, when condensed, is just so emotionally distilled that it twists me up after maybe 10 minutes of browsing.

I have the engagement algorithm blues.

I honestly couldn't come up with a less compelling set of paid features if I tried. I would love to see things like no ads/promoted tweets, premium API access for third-party devs, live timeline streaming (more like what Tweetdeck does [or did]), higher quality media, and the ability to always keep the reverse chronological timeline.

So wait, does this also come with all tracking disabled? That would be awesome. Are they trying to test the waters with regard to alternate monetization strategies, or this is simply a way to doubly monetize subscribed users, via the monthly fee _and_ their data?

Imagine paying $3 to a site that is largely driven by trolls, agitators, bad actors, foreign intelligence, ads, and corporate shills. Twitter and others add gasoline to every single sensitive issue in the countries that use it.

I’d pay to not see ads, true reverse chronological view of accounts I follow, and editing features.

Collections? No thanks.

And federated services will continue to be free and easier to cater your timeline to what you want to see and not a bunch of junk.

The feature that looks interesting and could be useful depending on implementation is collections if they are easier to share and link to as well as organize. Tweets are hard to sort through and organize today, would be cool if they offer a way to do things like pin a collection of your top ranked tweets or favorited tweets, rather then the current mode of pinning only one tweet. I tried creating something to help with this but it's hard to get traction if it's not natively supported (had a few users), though that could also just be the very bare boned state of the site, gotta be embarrassed by your first version right :) http://tweetlights.com/

I never knew we could monetize hate as a service (HaaS.)

I have three social media accounts: this one, one for Twitter which is fully blank, and one for micro.blog.

The only reason I even have the Twitter account is because sometimes people link to tweets and I got tired of not being able to see them. But not enough to make an account and actually use it.

I really enjoy micro.blog. I have...five people that I talk to regularly and maybe a few dozen that I follow. It’s been a great way to have a little social media circle without going crazy on Twitter or Reddit.

I actually do have a Facebook account. But it’s only so that you can use messenger which for some reason is the only messenger app that my brother will use.

Will their support stop being non-existent with this service or someone will still be in danger of having their account suspended for no, as seen in the monthly r/Twitter mega-threads, significant reason?

Wait... You want me to _pay_ to join a dumpster fire?

>Twitter Blue would let you undo tweets and save tweets in collections

So if you pay them you'll get features you should already have, got it.

Isn't Twitter developing some new social media site that isn't so algorithmically echo chamber driven like all others? I could've sworn I read an article about it a few months ago but I can't find anything anymore.

I think this is good. Any free resource is bound to be abused and overrun with spam and trolls. If you have to pay to use it, a lot of this becomes disincentivised. Free to read, pay to post, it's perfect.

The 'undo' feature seems to be aimed more at people who can read your comments, since a user can already delete their posts anyway.

It seems strange to put a price on something that conveniences other people.

Great. I subscribe to Reddit Premium to skip the ads, and I will be happy to do the same for Twitter. That said, I didn't notice specifically that there would be no ads, in which case ... nope.

Not snark, they should charge by the shtpost. Ignoring the intended and unintended consequences around such a market.

I’d pay to filter for a particular niche, e.g. Twitter is excellent to keep up with neuroscience research news

> Undo Tweet feature

Boy, a lot of people would probably jump at the chance to spend $3/month on cancel-insurance.

I really don't see anyone but the power users being willing to pay. What's that TAM then? There are only around 250k verified users, you can probably use them as a proxy for power users, your pro customers. That doesn't seem very large. Though this only really would be counting power writers, not necessarily folks who consume but don't tweet.

A subscription is long overdue.

Twitter has a smaller base than Insta or FB - but part of that base uses it professionally i.e. journalists etc..

I can't say these features are 'it', however, the opportunity for price discrimination has been there for a decade surely.

For a certain segment of users, $X is nothing, and probably can be expensed.

Are advertisers really paying that much?

why cant twitter do something about verified accounts being hijacked to promote bitcoin scams.

Twitter is the closest thing to 1984's "Two Minutes Hate."

Wikipedia: "In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily, public period during which members of the Outer Party of Oceania must watch a film depicting the enemies of the state, specifically Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers, to openly and loudly express hatred for them.

The political purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatreds towards politically expedient enemies: Goldstein and the enemy superstate of the moment. In re-directing the members' subconscious feelings away from the Party's government of Oceania, and towards non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thoughtcrime and the consequent, subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals."

And from the book itself: "The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."

And you want me to freaking pay to be a part of this process? And you won't even take away the ads for a paying member?

After ~220K tweets, and the feeling that Twitter manipulates the follows/retweets along ideological lines, I find it hard to care much about the service.

While a technically impressive site, @jack has long since stabbed any user loyalty in the heart.