But to me, Twitter is starting to look like a rapidly sinking ship, and this is yet another leak filling the lower decks with water. If Elon does go ahead and put TweetDeck behind a paywall, I’m sure some users will spring for the ad-free Blue subscription to retain access. It’s fair to say that all has not been well since Musk took over the platform. Unfortunately, this is just the latest in a series of Twitter gaffes for the South African businessman, a list which seems to go on and on ( and on… and on… and on.) Most recently, a widespread outage caused by “multiple internal & external issues” resulted in most users being unable to tweet or even access Twitter at all, spurring rumors that the platform may be about to limit tweets, messages and follows even further. That seems even more plausible given how recently he backtracked on charging users for access to the Twitter API. Of course, this is an unconfirmed leak right now, so take it with a pinch of salt-it’s possible that Musk will see the backlash here and walk back this decision. TweetDeck is a vital tool for a huge number of people who use Twitter to support their professional endeavors, and locking it away unless we pay for Blue is an incredibly frustrating move. Even if it does turn out to be an even better version of the tool I know and love, putting it behind a paywall is just a colossal dick move from Musk’s Twitter and I’m furious about it.
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