Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter/X, is floating an idea that he's had before to remedy the problem of social media bots: charging people to use social media.
Ask him ‘how much he thinks each tweet costs twitter?’
He’ll have an analyst run the numbers. After a few months it’ll bother him so much he’ll come back with the idea that it should be charge per tweet. Works like a charm.
If you move to a price per tweet, you’re getting close to just doing it on something like Ethereum with rollups.
That would be truly free speech and uncensorable if that’s truly what he wanted (it isnt)
But the last thing he wants is to convince people on a price per message model as getting people used to that will make it that much easier to migrate one day in the future to something blockchain based.
I don’t think it’d be the same problem with a monthly sub, just per tweet.
Edit: and yes, he should totally do it, either way it’ll fuck twitter in the short or long term.
Free speech as in no one can prevent you from saying it and you can literally say anything you want.
Social media online isn’t free. You pay to use twitter for “free” by being advertised to and having your information sold. There’s more to cost than $$$. Think of it like bartering. Here’s my info, give me access to speech. People are just oblivious to the deal they made or find it an acceptable trade.
Except on twitter, Elon can censor you on a whim, for good or bad reasons out of your control.
No one can censor or prevent you from speaking on a blockchain as long as you’re free in the first place.
Edit: The only way to say something and have no transaction that ultimately results in money being involved in the chain, and/or be at the whim of someone for having access to say it, is to use your mouth. The internet costs money. It ultimately costs money to talk on the internet.
This is so dumb. Obviously they need to move to a PPT model (Price Per Tweet).
Tell him what a good idea it was back when SMS text messages used to be 10 cents each.
That was a complete ripoff back then though.
The SMS system was designed from the ground up to not require additional overhead.
Yes, but Musk doesn’t have to know that.
Luckily, Elmo already doesn’t know a whole fuckton of stuff.
Probably proud of it too.
How do we get this idea out there to him, and make him think it was his idea?
Ask him ‘how much he thinks each tweet costs twitter?’
He’ll have an analyst run the numbers. After a few months it’ll bother him so much he’ll come back with the idea that it should be charge per tweet. Works like a charm.
The expense isn’t in the sending the Tweet. You really need to charge the people who read them. They are the ones that take up capacity
That’s fucking brilliant
Show him the gut of 3rd party apps and how much they’re paying after Reddit did the same thing?
Pay Per Read Tweet is a better model just look at all the praise Unity is getting now for their new monetization model
Make it retroactive for Trump
yes
PPI. Price per imprint. Every time a tweet is shown in your feed, you get charged.
If you move to a price per tweet, you’re getting close to just doing it on something like Ethereum with rollups.
That would be truly free speech and uncensorable if that’s truly what he wanted (it isnt)
But the last thing he wants is to convince people on a price per message model as getting people used to that will make it that much easier to migrate one day in the future to something blockchain based.
I don’t think it’d be the same problem with a monthly sub, just per tweet.
Edit: and yes, he should totally do it, either way it’ll fuck twitter in the short or long term.
So … “truly free speech” is “speech you have to pay for”.
I’m spotting a slight flaw in this logic.
That’s not free speech by any definition of “free”.
Free speech as in no one can prevent you from saying it and you can literally say anything you want.
Social media online isn’t free. You pay to use twitter for “free” by being advertised to and having your information sold. There’s more to cost than $$$. Think of it like bartering. Here’s my info, give me access to speech. People are just oblivious to the deal they made or find it an acceptable trade.
Except on twitter, Elon can censor you on a whim, for good or bad reasons out of your control.
No one can censor or prevent you from speaking on a blockchain as long as you’re free in the first place.
Edit: The only way to say something and have no transaction that ultimately results in money being involved in the chain, and/or be at the whim of someone for having access to say it, is to use your mouth. The internet costs money. It ultimately costs money to talk on the internet.
Apparently “charging a price that some people may not be able to afford” is not preventing them from saying things on a platform.
Do you think things through before you speak?
That’s their choice. Not yours or anyone else’s choice.
Everything on the internet costs money in some way or another, but you can just keep ignoring it.
Oh, wait. It just dawned on me. You’re a cryptobro. Of course you don’t think things through!