[mg]

They charge for "the ability to tweet, retweet, like posts and reply to posts."

It will be very interesting to see how this turns out.

Obviously, there is no value in the ability to publish your thoughts. You can do that for free on an ever growing number of platforms. But Musk seems to bet on a private attention economy. Where even private individuals are willing to pay for attention. Not only businesses.

Has this been tried before, or is this a first?

[afavour]

> Where even private individuals are willing to pay for attention

Twitter Blue is already this. When you get verified your replies and posts are boosted in others feeds. Just one of the reason the quality of the app has bottomed out but yes: I think there is an audience very willing to pay for that.

[greggsy]

This is really just a way to get your CC authorised to make transactions. It’s a nothing cost, but it exponentially increases he likelihood of someone buying something through the platform, or upgrading to a new feature set.

IMO, this will fail.