When I first heard Elon Musk was going to charge newbies on X, like most I thought well that's the end of X.
Pay to post
Pay to reply
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But then I thought isn't that exactly what Podcasting 2.0 is trying to encourage users to do?
Pay to stream
Pay to boost
Pay to zap
If Elon can (re)introduce micropayments to X for the payments and give everyone a wallet then maybe he is helping train the mass market to pay for content creators.
@samsethi@chris@chrismessina The difference is that Twitter is a) keeping the money, and b) not letting you do anything until you’ve paid. Podcasting 2.0 is different, since it doesn’t put anything behind a paywall, and gives all the money to the creator.
@samsethi@James Elon is simply expanding the “Not-a-Bot Program”, which has been live since last October.
The best way to understand this is that it’s a captcha with 1000% friction, unless or until bots can fabricate credit card numbers (don’t bother holding your breath).
It has nothing to do with micropayments for content, although Jack’s Twitter previously had tipping.
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