Didn’t Reddit do exactly this? Isn’t that why I’m here?
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Twitter did it before Reddit, IIRC. It was part of the conversation around API fees for Reddit.
There are dozens of us!
Dozens!
At least 4 dozen!
It's a weird decision to further monetize access to a platform that's hemorrhaging users and engagement.
You don’t get it. Because there’s less and less they need to squeeze them even further!
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It's weird to you cause you're not a mega-brain CEO.. if revenue drops, you raise the prices, obviously.
i mean hemorrhaging users and engagement is why they're trying to monetize whatever they can
Maybe it's a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.
And next week he'll xeet about suing the developers who leave even though it makes no sense.
Xitter has served its purpose. After the election he'll probably ditch it.
Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it's a hell of a good buy.
He also likes it so literal children can publicly adore him. Also grooming.
do third party twitter developers even exist anymore?
I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.
Oh no. Elon musk don't ruin Twitter .. Oooohh nooo someone stop him from ruining that awful platform..
Someone please stop him.
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Who uses Twitter?
I used to use it solely for sports news updates. Once Elon bought it, kept constantly getting politics news that I didn't want. Kept adding blocked terms hoping to not see it anymore. Nope. Kept getting pushed right wing bullshit. Deleted and never looked back. It helps that people have actually moved to Bluesky. The biggest issue I have is with Reddit and Lemmy not having the sports communities here. Game threads for Orioles games had 0 comments. I'm not going to just sit there and post to myself.
twitter is a reasonable option to go when looking for Medium to high levels of user toxicity.
I imagine this is less about making money off developers as it is about making misinformation research cost prohibitive.
Gotta launder that Russian money somehow. Now they can pay him more without having to make as many accounts.
This would have sounding effects on researchers, like mis- and dis-information, as most are still spread there, where they use API to aggregate and analyze tweets (or whatever it is called now).
I used to use Twitter to follow celebs when they dropped performance dates. Now I don't follow anyone anymore.
Songkick is an app I use to help me track that. You can either put in a city and it'll tell you who is coming and when. Or you can tell it what artists to track and it will tell you the tour dates, if any. It also tracks comedians.
Ohhhhh, thanks man.
Can't see how many one is surprised, that a capitalist company Reddit did this api fee, now x is doing it. Capitalist see, capitalist do.
Didnt twitter do it before reddit?
Yes. Twitter was first, then Reddit, now Twitter is another fee
With all the bs going on with twitter and reddit at this point for the least two years I don't know anymore who did what first. It seemed like reddit was doing this around last year and Twitter seems to be following suit now.