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Elon Musk has announced Twitter’s latest push to get people to pay $84 a year for the social network: Twitter will promote only paid subscribers’ tweets, and non-subscribers will not be allowed to vote in polls

. Twitter’s “For You” tab, the first screen that users see when they open the app, curates tweets by using an algorithm. That means it can surface tweets from people you don’t follow. The For You tab will soon only recommend people who pay for the premium Twitter Blue service. “Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations,” he announced in a tweet Monday evening. “The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over.

Although Musk said Twitter is making the change to battle with bot accounts, he later tweeted “That said, it’s ok to have verified bot accounts if they follow terms of service & don’t impersonate a human.” It is part of Musk’s plans to shift Twitter away from being almost completely dependent on advertising dollars for its revenue. A significant portion of Twitter’s ad base has left the platform since Musk took over in October.

 

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I would delete my account if that is the case.

mboyokshu Starpoll is free lmao

Yeah, whatever 🥱

Acaso no fue la libertad de expresión que lo impulsó a comprar twiter

Great news! This will be the definite opportunity to detox from twitter and stop wasting precious time on it.

Does this makes twitter more “premium” ?

Elon Musk's 'public square'.

That’s going to make it far, far easier to BlockTheBlue

Time to finally get off of Twitter. Had resisted until now but it is clear where this is going.

Can he not just monetize all the free information available to him on twitter with so many people using the platform to discuss real issues in their countries and the world? What is his real agenda?

He thinks people care about voting in polls lol

That’s fine.

Well before it begins. I Vote this Down. Note this in my none blue check account

I won't

So much for vox populi!

Clickbait again. For clarification: Without a blue mark, you can’t start a poll. But everyone can participate the poll. Premium users have features, that’s it.

time to leave

ChiefSpaceTwit made a bad investment by paying too much. Then compounded his mistake by taking actions that are destroying the value of his investment. Now he wants the rest of us to bail him out. He must think we are the government. 🙄

lindahoguttu 😂😂😂

Don’t worry, there is a life after Twitter.

mart_paas

$84 a year! Hell nah

So he thinks people who don’t pay for annual fees would frequently log in to Twitter to see advertisements from all these brands after they can’t see feeds from other friends and following ? I thought he was one of the smartest one

Musk said 'we'll coup anyone we want' after the coup in Bolivia, & now it's a coup of twitter! So much for freedom of speech!

elonmusk You make them pay thousands, Just remember that we have bunches of options. We'll resort to them & you start your app, may be with your family & friends.

LoL, so I’ll come to Twitter now and will only see basically ads (ppl who pay to tell me something)?

Another attempt at promoting his right wing extremists agenda

Oh no, not the polls.

This strategy will surely backfire.

Elon Musk knew about Mark Zuckerburgs propaganda campaign against tiktok, way before he bought Twitter 🤔

And this is how the world will find out it will do just fine without Twitter.

This is a very awesome thing. I am looking and excited for it. YEAH! TWITTER.

This is utter horse manure. Muskrat is a

i am shocked.

The 'for you' twitter feed is shit anyway, so don't care there. Who gives a toss about polls either 🤷‍♂️ If you restrict who can vote in a poll, they're all invalid/skewed anyway.

Not a chance

🤲🙏

This guy

What if I want a different coloured check? Would that be ok or is it only dependant on what colour of the day Elon Musk chose? Asking for a friend.

Bullshit.

Oh no, not the polls😭😭

So much for free speech.

Just in case there are too many people using Twitter.

Why would anyone pay for an inferior product? (laughs in free apps)

Well, I'm not biting. He lost his ass, and he knows it.

To Elon Musk

a real town square ... where people who paid get in and everyone else stay out ..hahaha

ironic innit.

Oh no! No more polls? Whatever will I do?

Oooh know what will I do now😂😂😂😂

We were all having a wonderful good times here on Twitter. All of a sudden, you showed up with 45 Billion to take away our freedoms. Now, you want us to pay for your extravagance spending, nope! Go make a deal with African leaders, so they pay you to sensor their critics here.

All the noise he made about 'free speech' has turned to be a scam! How shameful to get money this way.

What are Republicans going to do now? How are they going to reach out to their haters from now on?

Should eliminate most bots and hopefully a lot of garbage people, maybe Twitter will actually become useful and usable. Thanks elonmusk

I honestly believe he's doing it out of fear. The majority of the Tweets against him are from people living in poverty. I honestly wouldn't blame them if they were provoked because it's class prejudice. Elon Musk needs to live with the consequences of the hatred he promotes.

Time for some coders to get together and create the next Twitter.

yeah,, CNN is much cheaper... and you don't even bother to vote, it'll tell the poll results, you just need to take it.

Must be losing money on his investment

The end of twitter is coming !

Anyone notice how quickly the left wing media dropped the mass shooting of Christians by a trans. I guess it’s a politically correct hate crime. The type of hate the media supports?

Why would I want to pay just to get spammed with ads, have interactions with people who do not listen to me, and call me names? That is not that important to me. There are enough platforms besides Twitter that do that and I don't have to pay.

Sounds fair, if you are not serious or like free stuff go to Tiktok...

$84? My TL is showing $114.99..that would buy me a decent curry!

It’s not a big deal $84, honestly! As we pay extra money for many things that we don’t need!

Who cares lmao 😂😂😂

CommunityNotes

Wait! So I won't have random strangers post hateful tweets responding to a tweet that was meant for thoughtful people? What a bummer? So I won't see 'For You'? Horrors!

Proletarians unite

Most people go to their subscribed list anyhow?

Unpaid tweet here ... 🖕

Oh this is looking good. Real good... To get yet another toxic social media avenue deleted.

hahaha out of his mind.

I really thought that when he took over, Twitter would get better but it hasn’t and I for damn sure will not pay one stinking cent for the platform that exists now, nor would I for the one before it. It’s become a cess pool and I won’t swim there anymore🤷🏻‍♂️

Well, well, well….Tribel will be the next option

Glad I have my backup Tribel account. Looks like he’s beyond confused

Probably time to finish converting over to Mastodon.

😂😂😂🙄🙄🙄

People will just reply to the poll with their answer if they cant vote in it, theres nothing Musk can do to make Twitter behave the way he wants without restricting it completely to him and his sycophants

Guy is just tossing shit at the wall.

He must of been trying to figure out how to destroy this app as quickly as possible..I wouldn’t give musk a dime of my money

You can't make people pay for a service, elonmusk. It's people choice.

I can block them and will.

Oh no.. how will I live without a blue check 😂

As if anyone cares :)

Twitter will soon become 'ONLY FANS' 😂

Always having tricks to monetize anything he lay his hands on..

It will distort the data -does he really want to do that

Is this the real definition of free speech? It's like the rich want to privatize everything...

Well then

I am shown the price of €114, which is $123 today 😯

Boohoo

What? I can’t vote in anymore of Elon’s weird fake polls? that’s a damn shame. MyHeartWillGoOn

By design to sink Twitter. It's on purpose.

Musk seems to be insisting on shooting himself in the foot with a canon.

Funny how quick his version of a town square becomes a private club. Guess that demonstrates his circles.

Free speech.... if you have money elonmusk

Creating space for other apps to fill in....

Free speech is actually so expensive - elonic inflation or just musky economix.

It's €10 for some countries, so €120 per year in some places.

Makes no difference to me. Who cares.

Es necesario que alguien invierta y haga otra red social parecida a twitter.

Great; They should give him money. He lost 20 billion on this. Ok..

Elon Musk wants to recover his money fast. Hope he will not come up one day and say is only when you pay the $84 a year ,your tweet will not be seen by your followers.

Starting April 15th, 'the For You tab will soon only recommend people who pay for the premium Twitter Blue service.' As I have no plans to pay $84 for Twitter, I'm afraid I will lose contact with various accounts. Thanks guys, I'll miss you.

twitcult should pay me. My intellectual property. My interests. My relationships. You don't make $84/year off that ethically.

My life will be over.. NO POLLS

Wow the power, forcing Hijabill. easy billions on a way, easy to loose on the other. The abuse and the abuse. choose your way, waiting on a WHO men.

Actually it is 96$ a year; (Monthly plan)

And if I buy a ten-year subscription, is it possible to make it so that Musk's next initiatives do not apply to me?

In other words, if you have money, you can play and speak.

Oooh not polls! Gasp! Clutches pearls..

Good bye Twitter

So basically he privatized apartheid, after claiming to be the champion of free speech. Nice, try emerald Boy.

The fair voice of the fanboys 🙄

LOL more pathetic flailing from Elmo as he literally sinks the ship that he bought (for twice what it was worth). Look at you drown, Elmo...

What's he's asking for is my salary is a month

So what

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