What Twitter learned from subscriptions

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

Nov 10, 2021

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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