Elon Musk has discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall

Fully paid twitter, no advertiser pressure, would beba different ball game.

It was. It was called app.net. No-one used it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net

It's already behind a login wall, which without an adblocker is not far off.

I'm surprised selling political influence to the highest bidder didn't play out.

Even without logging in, posts of Twitter remain readable to the outside world if you have a direct URL to the Twitter post.

A paywall would mean that you can't access the content without logging in.

Very few parts... simply scrolling on a Twitter post will prevent you from reading the rest of the thread or comments.

I wonder how many of the average users would stay if it wasn't free... Or even if just posting would cost money...

good luck with that...

There’s a real possibility that pretty soon, most things on the internet are gonna be behind a paywall, anything that’s not will be riddled with ads and bots. I hope I’m wrong though.

Good riddance. Back to the smaller communities of the early 2000s.

I would think putting up a paywall would make a wonderful echo chamber. Can't see how random people would pay for social media after being trained and trained it's free.