What Elon Musk Is Trying To Do With Twitter Versus What People Actually Want

We’re being nickel and dimed to death.

Elon’s recent strategy has been to attempt to persuade us of Twitter’s value, quite than attempting to pay for the service.

Recent changes have included putting TweetDeck’s interface behind a paid-for paywall. After 30 days, you need to join for Twitter Blue. This is basically a conceit service. You might be charged a monthly subscription fee. It’s retiring its classic version as well.

Recently, view caps were also implemented as an answer to server issues. There again, the famous billionaire is nickel and diming because he doesn’t need to pay exorbitant fees to maintain Twitter running for everybody without restrictions.

Sadly, we’ve seen this before with firms that appear to be going under.

A great example of that is the electrical automotive charging stations. A downtown charger used to all the time be available without spending a dime while shopping in my locality. The town must have charged for this plug due to its popularity. It’s the alternative. The town charges a fee because nobody uses the electrical power ups (aside from me).

Twitter has the identical problem. You’ll think the corporate would make brand recent features and attract recent users, but as an alternative they’re flocking to other apps and, because the numbers dwindle, the one strategy to keep the lights on is to begin charging for features that were normally free.

The automotive is the analogy I exploit. Gouging. A charger has all the time been free for years because the thought was to get people to buy and stay around. The business model modified because nobody was using it. The town will no less than have the ability to make some money if anyone uses it. It should have cost quite a bit to put in.

While you gouge your loyal users who’re already paying for services, it’s a strategy to exploit them. I’m considered one of those suckers. Twitter Blue was paid again to permit me to write down longer posts on my book about productivity. Now I actually have second thoughts.

The issue with gouging and other ‘gotchas’ in business is that customers eventually figure it out. Oh, I’m only a Guinea pig for a failing company that’s squeezing out just a little revenue while they will since no recent customers are signing up for the service. Why? Like someone considering an electrical automotive, the business model that means you could have to pay even extra money to make use of a brand new product doesn’t exactly motivate you to hitch everyone else.

What are the actual needs of users? Features which might be recent. Recent ideas. This app has a way of newness, as if it’s going to a spot that other social media applications haven’t been before. Making something progressive and recent. We’d like a compelling reason to support innovation.

It’s time for Musk to begin acting like an entrepreneur again. Give users what they need — something without spending a dime that’s You should use this to your advantage. Eventually, if there’s enough value and profit in the long term, we’ll gladly start paying for it.

Otherwise we’ll just feel like we’re being…used.