I mean, Hanlon's Razor is a thing, but someone who was actually setting out to destroy Twitter would likely be behaving indistinguishably from Space Karen right now. Just saying.
@kianryan ☑️🐙🏳️🌈 Turns out the "share ad revenue" is literally an MLM.
Also you can't reply to DMs any more if you don't pay, which means it's no longer useful for customer support; one of the few things it was really good at.
@kianryan "As per Musk, the apparent big catch is that verified users only make money off of other verified users, creating what amounts to the combination of an MLM and conspiratorial echo chamber."
@kianryan I suppose therein lies a problem. While I don’t agree with much of anything Twitter does these days, I can kinda understand the idea that businesses using the platform to offer customer support while not paying does seem like a thing that should have been monetized. There are so many services out there monetizing that exact functionality elsewhere on the web.
@cykonot @kianryan that’s kinda the point I guess. The business should be expecting to bear the cost of that interaction. The fact Twitter didn’t seek to monetize B2C interactions is part of why they’re where they are right now. They never grew the platform into a true business tool and got bought out by a Aparteid Clyde
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Also you can't reply to DMs any more if you don't pay, which means it's no longer useful for customer support; one of the few things it was really good at.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Well that explains where the money to pay influencers is coming from. (Answer: The magic MLM money-portal!)
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Twitter’s New Promise to Pay Content Creators Has One Big Catch
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •The shared ad revenue MLM now seems par for the course, but.
You. Can't. Reply. To. DMs. If. You. Don't. Pay.
Wow.
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So randos can DM to abuse me, but to reply to a friend's message I have to pay.
I'm glad I'm done there. To Hell with Elon.
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