Twitter users sent the hashtag #RIPTwitter trend to the social platform after the service announced that it intends to charge to see some premium posts.
It will come in the form of a new “Super Follows” feature, a subscription service where users would pay for special content from high profile accounts.
This would be part of a new economic model for the free short form content platform, in an attempt to diversify its revenue streams.
Users were unhappy with the idea, with many resorting to memes to express their dissatisfaction, including one showing a picture of Homer Simpson asleep and the caption “I sleep peacefully knowing I don’t pay for Twitter.”
Most users have listed other features, including an “edit” button, that they would prefer before the service starts charging for content.
Users were unhappy with the idea, with many using memes to express their dissatisfaction, including one showing a picture of Homer Simpson asleep and the caption “I sleep peacefully knowing I don’t pay for Twitter,” and others asking for a feature editing
No timeline has been given for when Super Follows could become a feature, but the tech giant is expected to make more announcements later this year.
The global social media platform on Thursday announced the potential new Super Follows service at its annual investor meeting, where it was described as an opportunity for creators and publishers to be supported by their audience.
A spokesman said it would “encourage them to continue creating content that their audience loves.”
Some users laughed at the fact that Twitter was angry at its own idea on its own platform
But the public does not seem to be open to the idea, hundreds of users share their grievances through humorous posts using the hashtag #RIPTwitter.
A number of users have suggested that charging for Tweets would attract an audience similar to OnlyFans, a website that allows people to sell subscriptions to adult content – paying users to see blank images.
Most users did not feel that paying for Twitter was a value for quality, which suggests that it will go the way of other platforms and become less relevant.
Domie said, “I’m sorry, but nobody’s tweets are so important to me as to pay for them,” said a number of users.
“We examine and rethink the incentives of our service – the behaviors that our product features encourage and discourage as people engage in Twitter conversations,” the spokesman said.
Neil Lowenthal, a self-proclaimed struggling writer, wrote on Twitter that Twitter seems to care more about taking money out of people than giving it an edit button. He said he opposed “the idea of charging people for a free platform”.
Twitter, which currently makes money from ads and promoted posts, could add extra revenue through Super Follows transactions and help it reach its goal of having 315 million “monetizable” users by 2023 – up from 192 million last year.
Carolina Milanesi, an analyst of Creative Strategies, was not convinced that people would be inclined to pay for special content on Twitter, saying that the model works for YouTube, because the videos last for hours, but a single tweet does not.
Calls for an edit button were a common theme among users, with many saying they want to be able to make changes, including fixing typos in a tweet.
Twitter also aims to allow users to join communities dedicated to topics through a feature apparently similar to Facebook “groups”.
This concept did not go down well with the users of the platform, some groups that claim to be the most toxic part of Facebook.
DrewNYC posted on Twitter: “So I take the most toxic part of Facebook, the part largely responsible for spreading hate and misinformation on the internet, and I do it here? I understand. #RIPTwitter ‘
The San Francisco-based company has defined users who can be capitalized on as people who log in on a daily basis and to whom ads can be displayed.
Twitter, like Google and Facebook, earns most of its money from digital advertising.
A number of users joked that charging for Tweets would only work if the site allowed people to charge to see blank images, similar to OnlyFans
The company said it aims for revenue of $ 7.5 billion in 2023, more than double the $ 3.7 billion it took last year.
Twitter also intends to double the “speed of development”, which means the number of new functions it launches per employee to get people to engage more in the service.
Twitter revenue manager Bruce Falck told analysts that the technology company is aware of a potential revenue crime that could be caused by the new privacy labels Apple is imposing on apps on its mobile devices.
Other users have said that this will mark the end of Twitter as a social platform, with users switching to content-free alternatives.
App makers are concerned that tags will discourage users from collecting data used to target ads more effectively.
“It’s still too early to say exactly how this will affect the industry, but it will be felt by the entire industry,” Falck said, adding that Twitter is innovating to mitigate the blow.
Twitter’s revenue growth plan also includes greater involvement in online commerce, including allowing people to buy a product from a tweet.
Social network users who are desperate for appreciation “have similar thought patterns to RATS looking for food,” the study says.
Users who want appreciation on social media may have thought patterns that are fundamentally similar to those of laboratory rats looking for food, a study concluded.
Researchers in the US and Europe have found that efforts to maximize “likes” follow the model of so-called “reward learning”, also found in food-seeking animals.
Users who want appreciation on social networks may have thought patterns that are fundamentally similar to those of laboratory rats looking for food, a study concluded (stock image)
Experts estimate that platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have caught the attention of more than four billion people for several hours every day last year.
While some have compared social media engagement to an addiction, it remains unclear why some are determined to obsessively engage with such online platforms.
The new findings, the researchers said, may help experts discover new ways to address problematic social media involvement.
“These results establish that social media involvement adheres to the basic, cross-cutting principles of reward learning,” said author and psychologist David Amodio of New York University.
“These discoveries can help us understand why social media dominates everyday life for many people.”
The study, he added, may “also provide clues, borrowed from research on reward learning and addiction, about how worrying online involvement can be addressed.”