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Elon Musk says monthly fee for Twitter/X will combat 'bot army' (Original Post)
YoshidaYui
Sep 2023
OP
He plays Jenga with Xitter. He keeps fucking with it. Soon the tower will fall.
Earth-shine
Sep 2023
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bullimiami
(13,346 posts)1. How can he be so dumb?
Voltaire2
(13,961 posts)2. It will cut down on bots.
But mostly it will tank key advertising stats like average monthly users. So yeah he is an idiot.
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)3. He plays Jenga with Xitter. He keeps fucking with it. Soon the tower will fall.
Charging people for what they're used to getting for free is a difficult move.
Fortunately, I've never had a Twitter account.
Crowman2009
(2,615 posts)4. Unless they are the bots that originate from Elon.
Every accusation is a confession.
Shermann
(7,791 posts)5. Risky strategies
I don't see how you win the Platform Wars by slashing your userbase or creating confusion by rebranding.
It could be generating revenue now to pump and dump later. I wouldn't blame him for that.
ShazamIam
(2,631 posts)6. The racism, antisemitism, and general bigotry has driven away advitisers, he paid too much for
twitter, hoping to control the national dialog for the 2024 election year but keeps driving users away with his attempts to at least make a break even not negative income.
He seems to be dumber than Trump and certainly knows nothing about marketing his platform.