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What Twitter learned from subscriptions
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What Twitter learned from subscriptions

In experimenting with a paid model, the social network is finding new focus

Casey Newton
Nov 10, 2021
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Conventional wisdom holds that social networks should always be free. Networks are generally more interesting when lots of people are on them, and putting up a paywall creates barriers for a significant percentage of the global population. Free services ensure access to the maximum number of potential users — and the posts that they will (freely) creat…

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