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X Plans to Launch Two New Tiers of Premium Subscriptions

         

engine

11:04 am on Oct 20, 2023 (gmt 0)

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Elon Musk is tinkering again, and has announced X is to introduce two new tiers of Premium subscription. Confused?

One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads, and the other is more expensive, but has no ads.


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Marshall

12:53 pm on Oct 20, 2023 (gmt 0)

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Whatever happened to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

engine

1:27 pm on Oct 20, 2023 (gmt 0)

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LOL, well, I agree. From the outside, Musk has made a right-old-mess of this. I'm not suggesting it was perfect, previously, but his way of doing things seems to have crashed the service.

Perhaps it'll all come good in due course: That being an indeterminate time.

graeme_p

2:34 pm on Oct 20, 2023 (gmt 0)

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On the whole I preferred paid to ad supported. I think pay to get rid of ads is a good idea.

tangor

6:58 pm on Oct 20, 2023 (gmt 0)

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When one moves to subscription service there will always be a rate structure. Other media giants have the same rate breaks.

The web is headed for a closed system supported by subscriptions as opposed to free supported by advertising. Not quickly, but that is the direction and intent. In the process the web, as we have known it, will be gone.

vidan

9:44 am on Oct 21, 2023 (gmt 0)



He's probably looking for a new source of income to recoup the several billion dollars he has invested.