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submitted 8 months ago by s1vgm@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Elon took Saudi money and money from who knows what other investors to kill Twitter. It’s all done deliberately and just before an American presidential election year.

Make no mistake. They have a plan.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

wouldn't the smarter move be to keep it running but just really bias the fuck out of it next year? I swear people always want to read 3d chess into the mistakes of billionaires and dictators for some reason

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

I hate musk and think he's an idiot, but people are apathetic enough to let everything go to shit without their plan.

They may have one, you're probably right, but it's still a dumb plan.

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