It really wouldn't -- the Twitter Blue thing is BS to begin with: the checkmark is meaningless, and you shouldn't need to pay to have your tweets appear more prominently / higher in timelines.
Twitter already nerfed the API in 2018, and devs of third-party apps have to pay for the current API, so it's not like Twitter isn't making money from that... they're likely making more for charging much-more-popular third-party apps for API access, than they're getting for ads on their own (mediocre) app -- never mind the fact that Twitter for iOS and macOS were just rebranded versions of Tweetie post-acquisition (circa 2010)...
The new "pay to be verified" scheme is absolute nonsense, and makes the new checkmarks absolutely meaningless... and paying to have your tweets be more prominent makes two classes of user and tweet, effectively fracturing your user base.
In November, there were an estimated ~100,000 Twitter Blue subscribers[1] -- meanwhile, more than a million Twitter users[2] were driven to Mastodon, and a number have shuttered or mothballed their Twitter accounts -- especially in the tech scene.
That's not good for business, and it certainly doesn't "incentivise" staying on Twitter, much less paying to do so.
> and you shouldn't need to pay to have your tweets appear more prominently / higher in timelines.
And more to the point, you shouldn’t be allowed to, because as a mechanic for social networks it just doesn’t work. No-one wants their timeline to be full of stuff from people who are paying for attention; these people are generally not good enough to get attention without paying for it.
Twitter already nerfed the API in 2018, and devs of third-party apps have to pay for the current API, so it's not like Twitter isn't making money from that... they're likely making more for charging much-more-popular third-party apps for API access, than they're getting for ads on their own (mediocre) app -- never mind the fact that Twitter for iOS and macOS were just rebranded versions of Tweetie post-acquisition (circa 2010)...
The new "pay to be verified" scheme is absolute nonsense, and makes the new checkmarks absolutely meaningless... and paying to have your tweets be more prominent makes two classes of user and tweet, effectively fracturing your user base.
In November, there were an estimated ~100,000 Twitter Blue subscribers[1] -- meanwhile, more than a million Twitter users[2] were driven to Mastodon, and a number have shuttered or mothballed their Twitter accounts -- especially in the tech scene.
That's not good for business, and it certainly doesn't "incentivise" staying on Twitter, much less paying to do so.
[1] https://mashable.com/article/twitter-blue-elon-musk-subscrib...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/jan/08/elon-m...