This whole thing is insane. Charging people to be the product that gets advertised to. That’s why cable is dying… same thing.
Dumb but at least it’s a new feature behind a paywall and not removing a previously free feature.
This article is from September of last year. Is this still a thing? I cancelled my Twitter account around that time last year and rarely used it when I had it.
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