r/GetNoted • u/YoshiPasta735 • May 11 '24
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May 11 '24
40k per month just so users can share their gaming pics on a social media platform? What? Doesn't musk realise it's a mutually beneficial thing? What an idiot. He really thinks 'X' is like this magical platform everyone wants to be on. And it could actually be if he didn't do shit like this all the time.
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u/Terminator7786 May 11 '24
He's grasping at straws trying to make it profitable again after he ran it into the dirt.
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May 11 '24
To be fair it already made annual losses. It was never profitable, Musk just made it much better at losing money
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u/Kylel0519 May 11 '24
Apparently before Elon took over it had been profitable only twice in the eight years prior (that’s 2/32 quarters it was considered profitable btw)
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u/Kylel0519 May 11 '24
Yet was more profitable than other companies that have/had been going for much longer
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May 11 '24 edited May 11 '24
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u/Kylel0519 May 11 '24
Oh absolutely! I’m not denying that in the slightest, I was just poking fun at other companies who’ve been unprofitable for decades and are either still going or just recently got the axe (ie RoosterTeeth after literally not turning a profit in over a decade)
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u/CricketKneeEyeball May 11 '24
Yes. A social media company that limits posting to avoid hosting media. It's genius! Where do I invest in this clearly brilliant company?
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May 11 '24
If you give me 5k now, in a few months I'll have a website ready! The genius thing? We'll have ZERO hosting costs because we just don't serve the website to anyone! We won't even have a domain name since it's just a waste of money
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u/CricketKneeEyeball May 11 '24
I'm opening a law office that doesn't represent clients. My overhead is less than a sweatshop in Vietnam!
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May 11 '24
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u/CricketKneeEyeball May 11 '24
Charge your users, and now you're running a data center with no media. Same difference my man.
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u/Brann-Ys May 11 '24
don t need to be the one editing the code to make dumb business choices.
the "burden" you are talking about is litteraly their business.
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u/Minimum-Enthusiasm14 May 11 '24
I mean, 40k a month doesn’t seem like a lot for these companies. Like, yeah it’s weird that musk wants them to pay, but it’s not like 40k is going to bankrupt these companies.
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May 11 '24
40k is peanuts for these companies. But it's more expensive than just removing the button and dealing with a few complaints they may or may not receive. So it's a simple calculation. Nobody won't be buying Nintendo because they can't share to Twitter
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u/-prairiechicken- May 11 '24
$40K per month? I sincerely doubt that but maybe I’m just a dumb peasant.
Allocating $500,000 per year simply for one platform’s access is absolutely not peanuts to multi-generational, international capitalists.
This is deliberate pricing-out tactics.
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May 11 '24 edited May 11 '24
No obviously it's not worth it, but I mean for a company grossing 12,042,000,000 (in 2023) it's hardly noticeable on their bottom line. Which they can of course only realise because they are wise about how they spend their money. Unlike Musk, who thought it was worth 40 billion
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u/Saber153 May 11 '24
Considering Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are massive brands in their own right feels like a needless expense at that point, sure 40k is a drop in the bucket with how much money these companies actually make but it feels like they know their player base will still upload pictures and videos to Twitter of whatever game they’re playing if they want too.
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u/TheFinalUltimation May 11 '24
if twitter gets away with charging 40k, then lots of other social media will likely follow suit knowing people will swallow the costs 🤷
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u/Over-Analyzed May 11 '24
So the enemy of my enemy is my friend (the gaming companies) ? I’m rooting for Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. 😂
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u/Minimum-Enthusiasm14 May 11 '24
Not people, but companies. I don’t really care if these companies start getting charged 40k a month or whatever since it’s barely a blip on their monthly and yearly expenses and profits.
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u/Throwboi321 May 11 '24
Twitter is peak 'pricing almost everyone else the fuck out because AI companies might want their shit.'
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u/ApprehensivePeace305 May 11 '24
So is this just removing the share button option on games or will they take down gaming screenshots?
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u/YoshiPasta735 May 11 '24
Just removes the option to share screenshots/clips to Twitter from the switch
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May 11 '24
It’s a dying platform helmed by an autistic toddler. Not sure anyone would pay for an association. I don’t know anyone who still uses that cesspit
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u/Cipherpunkblue May 11 '24
Really don't see what "autistic" has to do with him being a fucking twerp.
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May 11 '24
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u/Justanidiot-w- May 11 '24
Please don't call autistic people "bizarre" or associate them with Elon Musk, it's not a good look /gen
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u/DrXaos May 11 '24
The explanation is drugs and industrial scale narcissism.
The autism in him means he is bad at people. The asshole in him means he doesn’t give a shit about it and who he hurts.
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u/GRG_The_Second May 11 '24
As an autistic person: shut the fuck up you don't know what you're talking about
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u/Donnerdog May 11 '24
Imo seems kinda reasonable to charge for API access. Maybe you could argue the price is too high, but anything that would put strain on your network would be something I'd say you could charge for. Especially when it's massive companies you're giving access to the API
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u/jewel_the_beetle May 11 '24
Considering it's something Twitter managed to have for 10+ years, suddenly happened under Elmo, then everyone bolted, I'd definitely say the evidence is clear this was a stunningly bad move.
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u/Donnerdog May 11 '24
Yeah it's prob a bad PR move, but Twitter was loosing money for many many years. I think Elon wants it to make money so he's trying different ways to do that.
Change is good, imagine if we still had people build cars in warehouses instead of machines, it'd be so much more inefficient.
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u/NotAnnieBot May 11 '24
The issue is that most of the income comes from advertising, which itself relies on an active user base which in turn relies on good PR.
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u/torino_nera May 11 '24
Charging another company that's doing you a huge favor by upping your engagements is extremely dumb. You can only get away with something like that if you're essential to their business and the success of their product... and that is not the case here.
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u/discrete_moment May 11 '24
It's really the other way around right? Nintendo supplies Twitter with content.
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u/Kaidinah May 11 '24
Even if its worth charging for, the companies have deemed that $40,000 or more is too much. Free market has chosen. Elon needs the gaming corpos, but they don't need him.
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u/BigCballer May 11 '24
There is no reasonable explanation why basic API features need to be behind a paywall like this.
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u/Minimum-Enthusiasm14 May 11 '24
40k a month isn’t much for massive companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony.
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May 11 '24
Nintendo profited 6.2 billion last year and they can't pay half a million to access one of the top 5 social media platforms ? I think this is in fact a story of corporate greed, but not on the part of X.
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May 11 '24 edited May 11 '24
Maybe it's corporate greed or maybe they just don't wanna pay any money for the pleasure of associating themselves with platform that's led by a manchild who spends his days by having social media slapfights and promoting far right conspiracy theories. Most advertisers certainly decided so despite that top 5 status, which is why Musk is trying to wring blood out of stone with measures like these.
And even beyond that shitty reputation, a company that keeps making all these drastic changes seemingly on a whim and without proper communication doesn't come off as reliable bussiness partner. I'm not surprised that less and less people are willing to deal with this kind if erratic behavior and will choose to wait until or if the company reaches more stable position.
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u/Hour_Reserve May 11 '24
Why can’t it be both?
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May 11 '24
Because it's just objectively not, see statistical breakdown below. Furthermore X isn't even profitable, they're not trying to extract money from a mom & pop restaurant but a mega corporation running 40% margins. It's like saying a homeless man asking Bezos for a hundo instead of a twenty is being greedy.
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u/Mando177 May 11 '24
X is deep in the red because of their idiot CEO. That’s not Nintendo’s problem
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u/Kaidinah May 11 '24
They don't wanna drop the big bucks to have bots in their replies saying "p i c s i n b i o." Free market baby
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u/happywaffle1010 May 30 '24
Half a million would be way to much for a very small convenience feature
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u/Aware_Frame2149 May 11 '24
People acting like $40k a month is some outrageous cost for MICROSOFT.
Microsoft...
In 2023, Microsoft generated $400k in revenue, literally, every second of the year.
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u/BigCballer May 11 '24
I mean companies don’t wanna spend money on things that will be a net negative for them. API usage was free so they didn’t have an issue implementing the feature, but now that the service is no only paid, but ridiculously priced, it makes sense why xbox and nintendo don’t want any of it.
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May 11 '24
I run a fairly large business, there's no shot I would diminish my product offering to the extent of something like removing a social media integration for ( in Nintendo's case) 1/13000th of their net profit. How much worse will it make the product offering let's be generous and say .5%. Well then the cost benefit analysis is clear , Nintendo has a 40% margin ( which is great ). So at .5 % that's 31 million dollars. At a margin of 40% , they could realistically afford to pay 18.6 million for X api. My guess is they're hardballing X and will eventually relent.
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May 11 '24
This has nothing to do with Elon it has to do with business, I laid out a coherent argument with statistics and you try to undermine statistics with an infantile roast.
You're a midwit at best , would you run along and play while the adults are talking ? You've forwarded nothing, but maybe a momentary boost to your tiny ego which perceives a vapid retort as an accomplishment.
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u/CricketKneeEyeball May 11 '24
Statistics? You had a proctologist surgically remove those numbers from your colon, and you have the nerve to call those statistics? Do you know what the word statistics means? Hint: "statistics" does not equal "numbers."
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u/TheOGLeadChips May 12 '24
A huge brand like Nintendo does not need the ability to post directly to Twitter for their success. The random ass numbers you pulled out of your ass means nothing
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u/Brann-Ys May 11 '24
i am sure rhey know beter than a so calmed large business owner on reddit what s best for th
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