Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Charge? For Twitter / X ? Ummmm

 The question on EVERYONE's mind: would you pay to use Twitter / X?


Corollary question: how much advertising would RantWoman be willing to tolerate?


Corollary question: what would make you flee Twitter?


RantWoman has not yet fled the platform despite Musk firing his accessibility #a11y team and refusing to work with third-party apps, some of which others find more accessible than Twitter / X. 


In fact, in RantWoman has 4 accounts: 

--The original all over the place one that hits tech, transit, accessibility of various forms, environmental awareness, matters of faith, and other things. 

--One created by accident where RantWoman has worked hard to cultivate what she considers valid and useful info streams related to international affairs 

--One not quite doing what RantWoman thought it might.

--One "owned" by Ambassador Thwack, the badly behaved white cane and anger management consultant. RantWoman allows Thwack's Twitter feed to receive all sorts of garbage specifically to monitor the garbage of the day. Thwack also is much less guarded about some opinions than RantWoman prefers to be on her main more or less professional account.


Most of RantWoman's posts get at best a few hundred views


RantWoman does her best not to engage trolls and to avoid lasting connection with accounts that appear to be bots.


The thought of having to figure out all the things that work for RantWoman with Twitter / X on another platform just makes RantWoman grumpy.


As to payment, RantWoman's thoughts so far:

How much do I value the connections I make on Twitter? A LOT. Am I willing to pay SOMETHING? How about MAYBE $5 / YEAR if it's up to Musk and all his whims? MAYBE. If Musk had a qualified multidisciplinary board and owned less than 30% of the company, I might be willing to pay $20 / YEAR.


As for advertising: for free RantWoman tolerates. RantWoman's inclination just to mute all advertisers will go up quickly if fees are imposed.


One thing RantWoman MIGHT be interested in paying for: Twitter and particularly the Twitter content network help RantWoman easily find information from multiple sources for a given topic. This very much simplifies RantWoman's quest for good content. HOWEVER, many sites want to hit RantWoman up for payment even before seeing the first article. RantWoman MIGHT be willing to pay Twitter if the multiple news sources that come up for RantWoman could receive even a penny when RantWoman really likes the content. RantWoman does not want and cannot afford to subscribe to everything she finds valuable, but some kind of micropayment option connected with pathways on Twitter / X would make RantWoman very happy.


Look, RantWoman gets that making a profit is desirable. RantWoman thinks louder voices than RantWoman are trying to impress on Musk that his behavior is weighing heavily on financial performance issues.


RantWoman wonders what percentage of people who have stuck with Twitter / X are like RantWoman in terms of not wanting to rebuild networks or not wanting to have to figure out a new app.


Stay tuned: see what the tech billionaire does next.

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