Twitter/X is going to be use this as a way to fight spammers and bots but those accounts never had a problem paying or using stolen money.
Maybe! The people who are still left must really like Twitter. I think charging a token amount to limit who can post from a Sybil attack mitigation perspective might actually be reasonable, and it’s exciting that someone who doesn’t care if they lose is willing to perform the experiment.
If you’re not willing to pay at least a dollar to post, maybe your content doesn’t have any value to the audience or platform. I’d pay $1 to keep posting here (probably more! But don’t tell the YC folks).
It will probably lose them even more money as their primary income is ads and lower engagement will drive advertising incoming even lower.
Like all of new X/Twitter's changes, it doesn't seem to have any foresight or insight into the product at all.
I remain because I still follow a lot of people on Twitter (news/tech/journos).
There is not one single place that still has a majority of them apart from twitter.
Said $1 fee would kill my audience, and therefore my incentive for posting there.
It's an inverse network effect, and why bad changes to social networks cause the death spiral effect.
I like seeing more and more services becoming paid like, well, everything else in life. You don't get free haircuts while watching 30 minutes of ads. This actually helps competition by taking some power and leverage away from the big ads cartels.