[HN Gopher] X launches two new subscriptions to boost your replies
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X launches two new subscriptions to boost your replies
Author : mindracer
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-10-27 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| jaredwiener wrote:
| Unpopular(?) opinion: the people who pay for their replies to be
| boosted are the people whose replies I want to see the least.
| sbarre wrote:
| That is the _most_ popular opinion I think.
| huytersd wrote:
| I cannot think of a more popular opinion
| mym1990 wrote:
| This is like pay to win mobile games, which, to be fair, generate
| an enormous of money. Don't see the same outcome for Twitt...X.
| sbarre wrote:
| Yeah I came here with the same thought. Pay-to-win seems like a
| bad idea for Xitter (pronunciation left to the reader).
|
| Imagine if Hacker News allowed people to pay to have their
| replies show up first?
|
| This just tells me that Elmo doesn't care about discourse or
| being the "town square" at this point, he's just in panic mode
| trying to grow revenue, and he'll run the same grifter playbook
| that everyone else does.
|
| Pay us money to feel like you matter..
| rchaud wrote:
| P2W games still have ads, and those make plenty of money
| considering they can't be scrolled past like in Twitter.
| mym1990 wrote:
| At this point he should just throw a hail mary and charge
| every user a mandatory subscription fee, and see who sticks
| around. Maybe he discovers that as a winning strategy, worst
| case scenario he loses 40+ billions and goes back to rocket
| science world.
| matteoraso wrote:
| The problem with X's strategy is that the main reason that
| someone would pay to have their tweets boosted is to advertise,
| but X is clearly in serious financial troubles and leaking
| users every day. This completely removes any incentive to use
| this subscription.
| mym1990 wrote:
| There is also no way for 'whales' to come out of these
| subs...at least with Instagram you can scale your spend to
| some pretty high levels...if X is going to nickel and dime
| its users...its going to need a lot more users.
| spiralx wrote:
| Having nothing but random comments by $8 subscribers at the top
| of every post has been pretty terrible for any sort of discussion
| between posters and followers already, but at least you could
| ignore/filter posts by their blue checkmark. Now you'll still get
| the above but you'll also get a bunch of $3 subscribers straight
| after the $8 posts, but without any obvious marker to show
| they've been boosted artificially.
|
| People have often accused Twitter of being full of people trying
| to shout the loudest and drowning out useful discussion, yet all
| of Musk's changes seem to be aimed at making this issue worse and
| worse. Soon there'll be a caste system where the only actual
| discussions will be between people on the same subscription tier.
| jjkaczor wrote:
| Oh, you must have missed the update where blue checkmark people
| can HIDE their blue checkmark... So, you cannot even reliably
| filter/ignore based on that anymore...
| kibwen wrote:
| I have good news for you: all major browsers have partnered
| with X to make it easy to filter out people who pay for Blue.
| If you look closely at the browser tab, you will see an "X"
| icon expressly for this purpose.
| Freedom2 wrote:
| I think the X button is there for other reasons, I'm not
| sure if it has explicitly anything to do with X?
| spiralx wrote:
| Of course they did that. So you'd have to use a user script
| to read each account's profile to see if they have a tick,
| which would be a pain even with caching the results.
|
| Just opened Twitter to nose at their HTML, it still hasn't
| managed to load the homepage in the time it's taken me to
| write this entire comment lol.
| sbarre wrote:
| > Soon there'll be a caste system where the only actual
| discussions will be between people on the same subscription
| tier.
|
| This would actually be great, it would make it easier to filter
| out.
| jrflowers wrote:
| I want a tier where users cannot navigate away from my tweets
| until they reply with "good post" or the thumbs up emoji
| beoberha wrote:
| I'm long gone from Twitter (post-Elon, pre-X), so it makes me
| happy to see features like this roll out that will hopefully lead
| to its inevitable downfall.
|
| I loved Twitter pre-Elon, but understood the criticism people
| had. I wonder if there's anyone (besides bots) who can say it's
| better now than it was? Would be interested to hear from them :)
| monkaiju wrote:
| Twixter? Xitter? Xwixter?
|
| Wtf do we call the bad blue site!?!?
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