X (Twitter) to soon begin charging $1 annual subscription in order to tweet and interact.

Next move must be to charge users deleting their accounts $1. And Elon can sell your data to make more money.

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    Why?

    That’s such a bizarre amount of money it’s not enough to dissuade scammers and it’s not really expensive enough for anyone to care about, except in principle.

    He really is a massive twat isn’t he.

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      and it’s not really expensive enough for anyone to care about, except in principle.

      That’s why. Because once people spend some money, they’ll be less likely to object to paying more later.

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        I’m not really opposed to spending money to access social media in general (although even before Musk took over, Twitter in particular could get lost) but if I pay money they have to promise to not advertise at me, or sell my data, otherwise what am I paying for?

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      Why?

      Two reasons:

      1. He wants Twitter to be his ‘everything app’ and the next step in that process is making it a bank.

      2. He wants to sell people’s personal data.