Elon Musk says Twitter will soon let publishers charge to read content on a 'per article basis ...

Tony40

Elon Musk says Twitter will soon let publishers charge to read content on a 'per article basis with one click'

Media publishers may soon be able to charge Twitter users to read individual articles shared on the platform rather than require them to purchase a subscription to a paywalled outlet.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced Saturday that the company plans to roll out the feature next month, allowing news outlets to "charge users on a per article basis with one click."

"This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article," Musk tweeted. "Should be a major win-win for both media orgs & the public."

Other details were not immediately clear, such as which accounts would be eligible for...

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-will-let-media-charge-readers-per-article-2023-4

JoshR

I'm on the fence about article paywalls in general.

Mumbly

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/185449/twitter-inexplicably-dumps-its-famed-logo-for-the-doge-dog-baffling-users-and-boosting-price-of-elo

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/185979/twitter-had-asked-the-mta-to-pay-50-000-a-month-to-continue-accessing-the-platforms

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186006/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-soon-let-publishers-charge-to-read-content-on-a-per-article-basis

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182424/musk-communicates-to-twitter-employees-that-bankruptcy-is-not-out-of-the-question

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182927/musk-claims-that-apple-has-threatened-to-remove-twitter-from-the-app-store-without-telling-him-why

@Tony40 are you off your meds again? Can't you just update twitter thread you opened 2 days ago?

emgh

@Mumbly said:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/185449/twitter-inexplicably-dumps-its-famed-logo-for-the-doge-dog-baffling-users-and-boosting-price-of-elo

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/185979/twitter-had-asked-the-mta-to-pay-50-000-a-month-to-continue-accessing-the-platforms

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186006/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-soon-let-publishers-charge-to-read-content-on-a-per-article-basis

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182424/musk-communicates-to-twitter-employees-that-bankruptcy-is-not-out-of-the-question

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182927/musk-claims-that-apple-has-threatened-to-remove-twitter-from-the-app-store-without-telling-him-why

@Tony40 are you off your meds again? Can't you just update twitter thread you opened 2 days ago?

For real, no meme, this should really be disallowed because it's really fucking annoying

if i wanted news i could google it

fuck this

emgh

@Arkas make this illegal or I program a Python bot to once per 2 hours post a random tech article on LET

Swiftnode

@DataIdeas-Josh said:
I'm on the fence about article paywalls in general.

The Washington Post slogan is, "Democracy dies in Darkness," yet every time I try to view one of their articles, the content of the article is paywalled.

A little ironic if I do say so myself.

treesmokah

@Swiftnode said:

@DataIdeas-Josh said:
I'm on the fence about article paywalls in general.

The Washington Post slogan is, "Democracy dies in Darkness," yet every time I try to view one of their articles, the content of the article is paywalled.

A little ironic if I do say so myself.

https://12ft.io/ and archive.today(just archive the article, archive will be with paywall removed) help

FranzVonVirMach

@emgh said:
Arkas make this illegal

Not going to happen.
The account we know today as @Tony40 was registered in 2013, abandoned and then hijacked and renamed by some staff in 2020 to generate SEO views by reposting random news.

Harambe

@treesmokah said:

@Swiftnode said:

@DataIdeas-Josh said:
I'm on the fence about article paywalls in general.

The Washington Post slogan is, "Democracy dies in Darkness," yet every time I try to view one of their articles, the content of the article is paywalled.

A little ironic if I do say so myself.

https://12ft.io/ and archive.today(just archive the article, archive will be with paywall removed) help

Just adding this into the mix: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

emgh

@FranzVonVirMach said:

@emgh said:
Arkas make this illegal

Not going to happen.
The account we know today as @Tony40 was registered in 2013, abandoned and then hijacked and renamed by some staff in 2020 to generate SEO views by reposting random news.

As someone who worked full time with SEO for awhile: Not how it works.

I think management are pretty clueless about SEO, it’s very apparent looking at LEB.

Posts are just not making sense to be honest.

As to why ”SEO Views” isn’t a thing:

1. SEO had nothing to do with hits
2. The news threads will never generate any organic traffic, ever
3. Actually, it does the opposite, the link equity will be spread out (although by design, as a forum, link equity is already very spreaded, so it’s whatever) to worthless threads generating zero organic hits

To top it off, what mods are doing is hurting the site when it comes to SEO in two major ways:

1. They close ”necro threads” when someone posts a helpful update to an old thread. Often, these actually rank and bring in traffic, and mods are actively making sure that they don’t stay updated and they’ll slowly lose their ranking again.
2. They freely allow absolute shitty worthless content. Non-helpful content won’t stop a thread from ranking, but homophobic and racist comments on a thread about Debian won’t be rewarded, but isn’t disencouraged.

Anyone with just a decent knowledge in SEO and a resonable understanding of what kind of traffic is monetizable and what isn’t realize by just looking at LEB especially that the method used isn’t based on any actual strategy put togerher by someone with any SEO experience.

And just to be fully clear: The posts by @Tony40 helps the site in terms of SEO absolutely NOTHING.