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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social 268 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (47 children)

A reason for dropping the service wasn't provided, but as we noted when Blizzard elected to remove Twitter integration from WoW, changes to the Twitter API made earlier this year are the likely culprit. Access to the API, which had previously been free, was replaced with a far more restrictive option, while Basic access, "for hobbyists or prototypes," now goes for $100 per month. The next level up is the Pro tier, "for startups scaling their business," that goes for $5,000 per month, while the Enterprise tier, which I imagine is where a company of Sony's scale needs to be, offers different monthly subscription prices "based on usage and needs" that start at $42,000 per month.

Musk is bad at business. The biggest reason Musk is so successful is that he was born rich. Same is True for Trump.

[–] Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can afford to fail it becomes astronomically easier to throw ideas around, turn them into real things and see what sticks.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's why they call themselves entrepreneurs.

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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it 42,000 because funny Elon wants it to be 420?

[–] appel@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago

The fact that this is a plausible theory tells you all you need to know about this man child.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

Wanna bet that the increments go up by either $4200 or $6900?

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's a banana, what can it cost? 5000 dollars?

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[–] halfempty@kbin.social 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Article says the most likely reason is that Xwitter started charging for API access.

[–] bmsok@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh. My. God. You're saying that charging for API access might be bad for business? /s

[–] McrRed@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Sho@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some Gore and Porn site. Would not recommend.

[–] Sho@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Noted, thanks :)

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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 year ago

Charging for API access is fine. The problem is the fuck-off price tag. $42k is so outrageously dumb that it suggests that Musk doesn't want businesses to use the Twitter API.

[–] MTLion3@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oooooof course they did. Musk is such a fucking idiot. Making a good, reliable, and CHEAP TO USE/ACCESS platform is the best way to keep people around. Nickel and diming everyone for everything is not working

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

From what I read its substantially more than nickels and dimes. He's beginning to give trump a run for his money on who is more toxic to everything they touch.

[–] MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just wait for the next steps Apple and Google telling him to fuck off. Then he will....make a new phone, it should be a banger!

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And he'll call it something original like The Cyberphone.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Threeme2189@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Xbox. That's fine right?

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[–] instamat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would love to see the dumpster fire that would be Musk’s mobile phone business. Please let this be his next thing.

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[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, 5k a month is "startup level"? I haven't been part of many startups that can blow 5k a month on something as frivolous as Xitter integration.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Start a Mastodon instance and give every PSN subscriber an account.

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[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Oh, no! Well, anyways

[–] ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait, why would you want to use Twit... Sorry, "X" on a playstation of all things?

[–] Cynnith@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Uploading screenshots and video clips.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To post content recorded on your console to your followers/friends. So creating content for the platform that drives engagement. You never know when some random video posted is going to go viral.

Kinda dumb shutting off platforms that give your platform content. Oh well...

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[–] MethodicalSpark@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

If the platform is still around in ten years, I’ll still call it Twitter out of spite.

[–] Xanvial@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Previously it's one of the ways to get the screenshot and videos from PS4/5, the other is using usb flashdisk which is rather cumbersome. Now they have a feature to upload it to PS App, so using Twitter is not that needed anymore

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope they join Mastodon. Seems like a great place once you take the time to learn it which is necessary to reap the benefits. It is not like a corporate service that bends over backwards to attract you but once you are in, it is easy than said corporate network.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 11 months ago

They could even just set up their own server for PSN accounts.

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Serves that eejit right.

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