How to Twitter Successfully
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Stopped reading here. If you see an $8/month subscription as the "must-have" feature of your social network, it has no selling point. If Hacker News charged me $1/year to post and comment, I would leave. It's not worth any amount of money to feel more socially "seen" or "accepted". It's a non-starter for non-Twitter users, with or without Elon Musk.
I've lived around chronic Twitter users, and this attitude is pervasive. Nevermind the rapidly deteriorating user experience, witch-hunts and echo-chambers; you can shop locally and couch-surf for Coachella! Instead of detaching their positive social experiences and personal identity from a profit-optimized claptrap, they have to defend it to the death. And trust me, Twitter is dying. Everyone now associates Twitter as "the broken platform"; it doesn't work reliably, and when it does, you can't browse like normal. Even the Fail Whale didn't have a reputation that bad.
Your guide suggested I pay for Twitter before even trying to use it; I could not be less-attracted to a social media site if I tried. It should be no surprise that "many people haven’t given it a serious try" when a "serious try" means paying for Twitter like it's HBO.
Hey, this isn't _my_ guide. Shared it because I found it interesting. :)
If nothing else changed at all, except all users had to pay $1 a year, I'm not sure if I would flat-out reject that immediately.
If, however, that $1/yr created a tier of inequality- say, the Orange Checks vs the Not Checked- yeah. Sayonara for sure.