Having nothing but random comments by $8 subscribers at the top of every post has been pretty terrible for any sort of discussion between posters and followers already, but at least you could ignore/filter posts by their blue checkmark. Now you'll still get the above but you'll also get a bunch of $3 subscribers straight after the $8 posts, but without any obvious marker to show they've been boosted artificially.<p>People have often accused Twitter of being full of people trying to shout the loudest and drowning out useful discussion, yet all of Musk's changes seem to be aimed at making this issue worse and worse. Soon there'll be a caste system where the only actual discussions will be between people on the same subscription tier.
From the verge comments...<p><pre><code> Paying to be popular on social media is an idea that could only come from the mind of a fucking loser like Musk</code></pre>
I’m long gone from Twitter (post-Elon, pre-X), so it makes me happy to see features like this roll out that will hopefully lead to its inevitable downfall.<p>I loved Twitter pre-Elon, but understood the criticism people had. I wonder if there’s anyone (besides bots) who can say it’s better now than it was? Would be interested to hear from them :)
An impactful thing you can do for your health is delete all of your social apps and disengage from the circus completely. I did that a couple of months ago and it’s improved my concentration and given me back a lot more time to do other things.<p>The small amounts of time add up, and the quality of all of your time improves. You don’t have to use these services, and we got along just fine (if not better) before they existed.
Pay-to-win social media just seems like an extremely stupid idea. Yes, you can pay to have your nonsense boosted up to the top, next to the other marks! Who on earth does _that_ appeal to?