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He's trying to get more people to commit to giving Twitter $8/month. I'm not sure if it's going to work because I suspect people will just change their browsing habits and continue not paying. Next CEO will have to figure out how to continue getting more advertising dollars to continue paying for the servers and the bandwidth.

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Think about the Twitter Blue users you’ve seen on Twitter before this.

Who on Earth would want to pay $8/month to join a site where you can effectively only interact with that kind of person?

In fact, I'd be more likely to pay money to never see a verified post ever again.

Maybe that’s the plan.

6000 posts/day is still nothing because I probably consume faster than 1 post/second on Twitter.

Nothing is more likely to drive people away from social media than trying to put a dollar value on it.

None of them are worth paying for, not a single one.

I do pay for YouTube. I don't know if it's worth it, are ad blockers working well there these days?

Is Youtube social media? I mean it has a comment section, but to me it's always been a content delivery service for videos, first and foremost.

There are also far fewer creators/posters and far more value per post, especially when you consider that YouTube carries a lot of commercial content (music & music videos)

Would I pay for ad-free access to a giant catalogue of music (even though I can use an ad blocker) or to support talented people putting hours into composing and editing content I like? Sure, why not. Would I pay to see people's random short-form thoughts? Hell no.

You said it, paying for YT is a no-brainer for me, because it's how I discover new music, listen to jazz and classical concerts, and follow a few big names I enjoy.

There's nothing like that on Twitter, FB, Reddit, etc.

uBlock Origin is working (at least for now). There are various anti-paywall lists as well for your NYT/WaPo/Boston Globe needs.

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