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Yes, the people remaining are addicted to/like Twitter. But this is the equivalent of imposing a sin tax on it and it will cost Twitter engagement like sin taxes lower alcohol or smoking.

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.

Sounds like this fee is for new accounts only.

Existing accounts would be seasoned, and they can filter existing bot accounts over time.

> Yes, the people remaining are addicted to/like Twitter.

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.

They basically all have substack newsletters, just move there

i don't really like twitter. it's just where most of my network still hangs out online (for now).

> 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.

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.