Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

Well, they need something to pay the lawyers with once Musk takes notice.

Edit: I've just discovered this interesting concept called "reading the article" and found out that they've already been sued, though it's still not entirely settled.

https://twitter.now/

vibe coded slop asking for $20 bucks to sign up.. i think I'm okay

Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

They probably need the money to pay for their AI-based "fact-checking":

A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

Using a technology that's known for making shit up, for fact-checking, is so dumb, but it will probably bring in investors because AI.

Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I'm out

...As a "founder"; we'll see how long that lasts

but til then at least, I'm out too

it cost $20 to join?

Shit, that's twice as much as it used to cost to join Something Awful, and I bet you don't even get access to furry porno.

Sounds like a grift.

I'd still be hesitant if they paid me 20$ to join.

Are we sure it’s not mostly still bots on Twitter? I deleted my account back then and have not been back.

At least, not willingly back, since some people still hyperlink to Twitter directly rather than just sharing screenshots of whatever the content was. So you click the text hyperlink thinking it’s to a web article, only for it to bring you to some random string of tweets visibly displayed in the least logical order.

people start using “tweet” and “twitter” again

I never stopped

what what term do people use for tweets on shitter now? just "posts"?

it cost $20 to join?! I'm out

Yep, I can't spend the money now, which is probably true for a lot of people, and I'm definitely gonna forget this is a thing by the time it's free or I have the money, which is probably true for a lot of people.