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this is confirmed by Elon Musk

Twitter is experiencing a real tornado, and we don’t know if it will end it or make it rise from its ashes and be stronger. Since Elon Musk took control of this social network, great changes have been announced, for better and for worse, within it. But we still have many more changes to see, and that is, as long as Twitter is a profitable platform, Musk is capable of forcing users to pay his famous fee of 8 dollars a monthor else the algorithm will pretend you don’t exist in it.

Last week we could see a lot of news about this social network. The most shocking was the massive dismissal of workers around the world, which killed almost half of the company’s workforce, affecting, of course, the headquarters of Twitter Spain. In addition, many users have already been able to see other changes within this social network, such as the imminent launch of the edit button, which will be free for all users, or its new payment model, now available in the Twitter app for iOS.

Let’s call it Twitter Blue, or Twitter Premium, among Elon Musk’s plans is to start charging users for being relevant on the social network. Thus, the blue verification mark will become a paid function, in addition to offering these users the possibility of uploading longer videos and audios to it, as well as greater visibility on the social network. But to what extent will this increased visibility affect?

Sacrificing user in exchange for a cleaner and more truthful Twitter

It’s no surprise that Twitter is the social network of hate and Fake News. And this is one of the many things that Elon Musk wants to change. And his payment model is going to be one of the best ways to do it. As he has confirmed in one of the latest investor meetings, Musk has confirmed that the algorithm will delete your tweets instantly if you’re not paying the $8 a month fee. Verbatim words of the current CEO of the company, we will have to scroll a lot if we want to see unauthenticated users.

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Aaron Stewart Ahn

@somebadideas

If you don’t pay the $8 your tweets will be suppressed by an algorithm. Not making this shit up he said it to a room of investors yesterday & claimed this would solve hate speech. “You’ll have to scroll really far to see unverified users” https://t.co/gSzXtzFYtC

November 05, 2022 • 13:50

This will kill Twitter as we know it, and that is we will not see the tweets of our friends, not even our own responses. If we don’t pay, we will be totally invisible to others. This is already coming, as we have said, to iOS, and we only have to see the latest changelog of the application to realize it.

Goodbye Fake News, goodbye hate, goodbye Twitter

Thanks to Twitter Blue, users will be able to use this social network as a source of truthful information free of hate speech. Messages from unverified accounts will be totally invisible. And, those who pay, and break the rules, will see their accounts closed (and lose the $8 they paid). In theory, the plan is good. In practice, a disaster.

It is normal for people to begin to consider making the leap to Mastodon. For those who make a living on Twitter, paying can be an upgrade. But users who use it as a social network, to read the comments of their followers, and interact a little, are not going to pay.

The blue bird is imprisoned. And the only attraction Twitter had was freedom.

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