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Chris Trottier Feb 3, 2023

Ponzi scheme? 🤔

Twitter will start paying creators... if they pay Twitter first!

Elon Musk says that Twitter will share revenue with content creators *only if* they subscribe $8/month to Twitter Blue.

In other words, Twitter gets paid when they recruit enough suckers...err, "downline distributors".

This sounds a lot like Amway!

Or worse -- one of those shady crypto schemes!

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RayneToday

@atomicpoet It's called Pay to Play. Musk wants a fee for access to the platform for the purposes of promotion/advertising content. It's not illegal in most cases (there are some cases in which it is). But Musk seems unable to grasp why users remain at Twitter — it's to consume content, and discouraging content creation with upfront fees suppresses content creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_to_play

Pay to play - Wikipedia