Mastodawn

RussInCheshire Jul 1, 2023

How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

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John Morgun

@RussInCheshire
I see little wrong charging people for a better service. Twitter lost money and Musk is trying to make it a viable business.
Give it time Twitter will become a subscription service. Populated mainly by politicians, journalists and wanna be journalists and politicians, celebrities and corporations.
Not sure how the non English speaking world is reacting. I know in India there is interest in Mastadon. Few in Asia, Africa going to pay to access Twitter apart from Japanese.