Elon Musk
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Early signs that people are buying into Elon Musk’s vision for social media are not looking good
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he said he wanted to protect its place as a “digital town square,” where ideas from all corners of the internet could flourish. But soon, if you want your voice to really be heard in the town square, you’ll need to pay.
Earlier this week, Musk tweeted that, starting April 15, Twitter will only recommend content from paid accounts in the For You tab, the first screen users see when they open the app.
This means that if you don’t start paying $8 a month for Twitter’s subscription plan, Twitter Blue, you’ll have a harder time getting your tweets seen by the masses. For people viewing but not posting on Twitter, you’ll be seeing a lot more content from paid accounts, which currently make up only 0.2 percent of all users. After Twitter users started complaining about the new plan, Elon clarified that people you follow will also show up in the For You feed. Plus, if users don’t like the For You feed, they can switch to the Following feed, which ranks tweets chronologically.
But the main point still stands: Musk wants to fill your Twitter feed with a higher ratio of paid accounts, and is pressuring more free users to pay for what was once considered a given.
- it's almost like he has no idea how the internet works.Nairn
- I think it's cool. blue checkmark ppl want promotion and be loud, aka psychopaths->1st list.
ppl you follow = you chose the content of it.uan - any other list you create = you can add accounts without following.uan
- and you don't have to check the 1st list. you can hang out in the 'you follow' list. It's better than before.uan
- Sounds like IG. I don't see but a few I follow, it's always crap "suggested". I never browse anymore.formed
- Freedumb Fighter!utopian
- folks who prefer hierachy over heterarchy should habe been outdated a long time ago...neverscared