But does it work with servers?
I usually give 20%, but on Sundays I give church fliers.
I’m spending less time on twitter, but I’m pretty addicted. I am so pissed at Elon. What a complete dick he is.
I might need an intervention. Dammit.
I used to check in many, many times a day to Twitter, now it’s maybe twice a day and some days I forget. It doesn’t help that it keeps messing up now on my phone, and freezing on a screen of multiple “see more tweets” buttons.
Uh oh, trouble in paradise. 
Avocado is very sad about this.
Do you think the servers are unaware that there are church services on Sunday and are just working that day because they are ignorant of Jesus?
Or maybe they require money to pay rent and buy things to keep them alive?
If they all read your fliers and came to church on Sunday, you realize that there would be nowhere to go to eat after Sunday service, right? Maybe just skip to the end and don’t go out to eat on Sunday, freeing those people up to go to church. Ultimately, you yourself are the reason they are not in chuch.
I think that post had an implied sarcasm tag on it…
Yes indeed. I’ve read the recent “bad customers” thread, but just wanted to get that off my chest.
To be clear, CatTurd previously posted this:
And now they’ve said this (for those who can’t read the linked tweet):
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Let me get this straight …
I can’t scroll through my replies or home page without seeing tons of ads.
So basically, advertisers get to advertise directly to my 1.6 million followers without paying me a dime.
Not only that, I have to pay Twitter $11 per month who gets 100% of the advertising dollars.
Then, they ban my account for a day for warning the public about potential violence - and while I’m suspended and can’t use my own account, advertisers still were doing ads in my replies.
Seems fair.
Did I miss anything?
Yeah, I guess it probably they are just being sarcastic. Oh well, it was funny while it lasted.
The New York Times, LA Times, Buzzfeed, Politico, Vox, and the Washington Post will not be paying Elmo for a checkmark.
Elmo is now rolling over on the $1000/month for star-bellied Sneetches.
Agile backpedaling!
How could he possibly still not understand at this point that he is trying to charge his content providers.
In fairness, the SDMB tried out charging their content providers for a year or two. Didn’t work out great, but it’s not exactly an unthinkable idea.
It is unthinkable it will ever succeed.
It is also unthinkable beancounters will stop coming up with the same bullshit over and over again.
Lol, not even the White House is going to pay for Twitter:
The companies all stopped donating to Republican candidates after Jan 6…
Until they started again.
If there are hundreds of millions of juicy customers on Twitter and the juice is worth the squeeze, that lemon’s getting itself squoze before too long.
There might be some haggling over price and, maybe, groups that are less market-centric like the Federal government will stay separate, but if usage of Twitter by regular people stays high enough and there’s no effective way to market to them but to put up money for it then, eventually, an agreement will be found.
Musk already caved; the 10,000 largest accounts are exempt. @Smapti linked a cite a few posts up.
The brilliance of Elmo’s management is breathtaking! The biggest organizations that could easily afford to pay the extortionate cost of the verification mark are now exempt. It does make sense in a way because these organizations don’t need his stupid check mark, which just highlights the stupidity of trying to monetize this idea. But it does shift the burden of contributing to Elmo’s profits to the sub-10,1000 smaller organizations who may be facing real questions of the cost-effectiveness and affordability of paying $1000 a month for essentially nothing, so he may not get much out of that group, either.
In his efforts to salvage Twitter, he finds extra money in the strangest places.