🐱 Twitter is working on a new subscription platform

Twitter is working on a new subscription platform, hints job listing

There’s a new team inside Twitter working on subscriptions.

www.theverge.com

Twitter appears to be working on a subscription platform for its social networking service. A new job listingreveals that Twitter has a new internal team, codenamed “Gryphon,” that is “building a subscription platform.” Twitter is currently recruiting engineers to join this subscription team, with employees collaborating closely with the company’s payments team.

The job posting notes potential Twitter subscriptions would be “a first” for the company, but it’s not clear exactly how Twitter plans to implement a subscription service. Twitter generates the vast majority of its revenue through ad sales and data licensing currently, and a subscription service could potentially provide exclusive content in return for a monthly fee.


Twitter has previously investigated offering subscriptions as a paid service for power users. The company ran a survey a few years ago to assess whether Twitter users would pay for new analytics, breaking news alerts, or information about what an account’s followers are tweeting about.

Twitter may also be considering a Twitch- or Patreon-style type of subscription, where you could subscribe to individual accounts in some way. We’ve reached out to Twitter to comment on its subscription plans, and we’ll update you accordingly.

Following publication of this article, Twitter revised the job posting to remove mention of a potential subscription feature in development or the Gryphon team working on it. The listing now says the company is simply looking for an Android engineer to “work on a bevy of backend engineering teams to build components that allow for experimentation to deliver the best experience possible to all of our users.”

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

"Pay me for my hot takes!" is even more stupid than "Pay me for my nudes!".

 

[Drifting Panzer]

I don't get why people use twitter as it is, but paying for it? A good way to see who should be sent to some form of asylum, and never be let out again, though.

 

[Sam Losco]

Green checkmarks for pay piggies.

 

[Bagronkleton]

Underlying motive: ad revenue is drying up. Squeeze the dopamine chasing pay pigs.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

"Pay me for my hot takes!" is even more stupid than "Pay me for my nudes!".

If Twitter censors and takes down plenty of shit on normal accounts can you imagine the amount of micro-managing they would do for "Premium" accounts? Good luck trying to argue for a refund as well if it's a yearly subscription and you get banned within that same year.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

If Twitter censors and takes down plenty of shit on normal accounts can you imagine the amount of micro-managing they would do for "Premium" accounts? Good luck trying to argue for a refund as well if it's a yearly subscription and you get banned within that same year.

That's the thing; in order for this to be worth it, it would need very hands-off moderation, no bans for anything that isn't illegal, no shadowbans or trend manipulation- basically let people buy their way back into social media from back before social media sucked. (I remember a comment to the effect of, "if you want to kill Facebook, make Facebook with it's 2012 functionality.") Since you wouldn't have to datamine your users in order to generate revenue, you could be extremely hands-off and still make money.

That isn't what's going to happen, though, because Silicon Valley is an oligopoly and there are basically no consequences for failure.

 

[DumbDude42]

they could start selling premium MTX lol
>different color checkmark: $20
>tweet visibility boost: $5

or just straight up sell followers. you pay them money, they pick a bunch of random accounts and force them to follow you lol

 

[PhoBingas]

Ah, another liberal tech company bringing out a payment plan to make up for dwindling add revenue.

 

[augment]

I can't wait not to pay to read the lastest misinformed snark from some dumb tranny about some stupid problematic shit I don't give a shit about!

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Are they at least going to wall these users off into their own echo chambers?

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I don't like Twitter but I mean it's a good move financially if it can take some of that Patreon money.

 

[Absolutego]

Underlying motive: ad revenue is drying up. Squeeze the dopamine chasing pay pigs.

I found it very interesting how in all those articles about Unilever pulling advertising revenue from Facebook, the author rarely, if ever, thought to mention that they also pulled revenue from Twitter, with the same vague reasoning.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

Oh man, do we actually have to pay MovieBob?

 

[AMHOLIO]

"Pay me for my hot takes!" is even more stupid than "Pay me for my nudes!".

At least we're not paying them to stop

 

[Beavis]

They should just charge $4.99 a month for an account. They’d get tens of millions of subs the first week.

 

[tehpope]

I guess Jack is very serious about egging trump on to remove section 230. Jokes on him though. Trump will either make them a publisher to test the waters or just keep it as it and call their bluff.

I haven't seen this good a poker game since Jotaro vs Darby.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

or just straight up sell followers. you pay them money, they pick a bunch of random accounts and force them to follow you lol

They should just charge $4.99 a month for an account. They’d get tens of millions of subs the first week.

Ever heard of a site called "MeetMe"

It used to be called "MyYearBook" and before the re-branding it was basically a better "MySpace" if you could believe it (including the web games... 3D Cube Mahjong was fun as fuck but hard as balls). Point is, once they rebranded, anyone that made an account was immediately shown a window where they could send invites to 50 random people... 90% of them looked like the creepiest thugs/criminals/druggies and sex pests you've ever seen.

That is what your suggestions remind me of.

 

[Thomas Talus]

they could start selling premium MTX lol
>different color checkmark: $20
>tweet visibility boost: $5

or just straight up sell followers. you pay them money, they pick a bunch of random accounts and force them to follow you lol

Imagine Twitter copying Something Awful's monetization system and allowing you to change the profile picture and name (the changeable part, not the @) of someone else's account. They'd make hundreds of thousands of dollars per day just from Trump's account.

 

[Grey Gardens]

I hate to admit it, but this is a good idea. I have a cracked fire stick (so edgy!) but still have a couple/few subscription services.

Ever heard of a site called "MeetMe"

It used to be called "MyYearBook" and before the re-branding it was basically a better "MySpace" if you could believe it (including the web games... 3D Cube Mahjong was fun as fuck but hard as balls). Point is, once they rebranded, anyone that made an account was immediately shown a window where they could send invites to 50 random people... 90% of them looked like the creepiest thugs/criminals/druggies and sex pests you've ever seen.

That is what your suggestions remind me of.

MyYearbook was terrible/hilarious.