[skmurphy]

Catarina left this as a comment to the post:

I definitely hope that Twitter can find a better business model than advertising, which I think is fee for service. That has always been the best way, especially for social media. All the disinformation, the serotonin economy, the harassment, the impersonation–ALL the ills are reduced with a fee for service model.

[chucky123]

"For me, the best thing that has come from the Twitter dumpster fire is that I have been posting here instead. Let’s hope for a revival of the independent web, the platforms for which people pay, the Substacks and Word Presses and the like. The better internet we all deserve."

Totally agree. Would love for Twitter to be advertiser free. Will also put pressure on other social media apps.

[fractallyte]

Thanks for posting this, I would have missed it! This addendum is even more important than the article.

[wobbly_bush]

What does fee for service model look like? Charging every user?

[maxfurman]

Pay to promote tweets, perhaps? Kind of like the situation for brands on Facebook now, where "organic" reach is strictly controlled to encourage paid promotion, but applied to all users?

It might work if Twitter didn't have a billion dollars in debt payments to make every year, on top of their fixed costs.

[rsynnott]

... That's basically just what Twitter ads are anyway, tho. Twitter ads generally take the form of labelled "promoted tweets".

[bagels]

It looks like a bankrupt Twitter, most likely.