Twitter Monetization Debate
The cluster discusses Twitter's reliance on advertising revenue, skepticism about users paying directly for access or premium features, and ideas for paid alternatives or third-party services to monetize the platform.
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seems like twitter itself should have significant financial incentive to do this
It is because twitter needs to earn money and the way they earn money is through advertisers.
Yet another attempt by people outside of twitter to monetize twitter.
Only if you paid money to have your posts seen and liked, and then Twitter restricts your posts anyways.
Why do people think that twitter is worth paying for?
Some twitter users are clearly willing to pay for whatever it is they get out of using twitter - one just paid $44 billion :)
People were paying for Twitter?
Who pays tens of thousands to use Twitter?
Twitter can't let you pay them. That would immediately cap the market value of each user and Twitter's target valuation per eyeball is way more than you'd likely be willing to pay.
Twitter is doing this because at some point they have to monetize, and that probably means showing ads. Some users will get annoyed by ads, and that will mean a bigger market for an ad-free alternative.