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by 4gotunameagain 980 days ago
When you frame it like that it does, but when you frame it like potentially taking $1 per year from ~500e6 users, it doesn't sound too bad does it
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But we know that you'll never get everyone to pay (the If Everyone Gave Me a Dollar fallacy is a thing), and it's still only $500m a year, when they lost $2b+ in advertising, right? And now you have to support multiple micropayments.
I didn't say it makes sense, I am not in a position to judge that given limited knowledge about twitter's finances. I'm just saying that the framing is important