• @ansiz
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    137 days ago

    More short sighted corporate greed. It’s a great period to try and pull in Twitter users but instead let’s add ads for a short term bump in profits.

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      46 days ago

      Why is it shortsighted? A service like this costs money to run, and if you won’t pay for it, someone else has to.

      • @eskimofry
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        46 days ago

        Maybe lets not try to pretend that it is just about the costs shall we? I bet MBAs will cower at the suggestion to put up a paywall from the beginning. Afterall, bait-and-switch is their bread-and-butter.

        Subscriptions weren’t the norm when we actually paid for something and got the full product. The cost to run things didn’t suddenly become a factor just now.

        Only thing that changed: greed of businesses, execs, shareholders.

        • AwesomeLowlander
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          16 days ago

          we actually paid for something and got the full product

          That’s generally not online platforms, though. For obvious reasons, those have ongoing operating costs

    • @[email protected]
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      37 days ago

      They’d have to implement ads eventually anyway. Companies do have budgets, and the money to run Threads has to come from somewhere.

      • @Squizzy
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        97 days ago

        Companies can and do make a loss to gain market share, they ae currently doing it with the metaverse and AI.

        As twitter struggles under the spastic, they should be incentivising the move for users.