Twitter is Working on a Subscription Platform Codenamed Gryphon

Twitter is working on a new subscription platform under the codename Gryphon, according to two online job postings. From a report: A remote contractor position listed on LinkedIn is seeking a backend Scala software engineer to work for Gryphon, a team that is split across Twitter hubs in San Francisco, New York, and London. According to the post, Gryphon constitutes a mixture of frontend and backend engineers who are "working closely together to deliver something new at Twitter," and involves rebuilding some of Twitter's services to "produce a subscription management platform." A second position for senior full-stack software engineer, listed on Twitter's career portal, also mentions a new subscription platform that can "be reused by other teams" in the future. Aside from that, not a great deal is known about Twitter's plans, however we do know that it is a close collaboration between Gryphon and the Twitter.com and payments team. The successful hire will "lead the payment and subscription client work" according to the listing.

Gryphon?

[nospam007]

Bad name for Twitter, a gryphon is a bird with a very fat ass.

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[thadtheman]

So twitter tailored for the Kardashians?

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[sdinfoserv]

well played.

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[gtall]

That....made my whole day, thanks!

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[moxrespawn]

Considering Twitter's primary use case, Gripeon would be a more apt name.

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[rsborg]

Bad name for Twitter, a gryphon is a bird with a very fat ass.

Some say fat, some say THICC.

Who are these people that will pay for Twatter?

[an0nym0u$]

I know the platform has plenty of users, but who are they? What I mean is that I don't know anyone that actively uses Twatter? I am just very curious about who actively uses twatter and why? Yes, we all know "celebrities and influencers" use the platform. The only thing I see any value in twatter for is quick mass messaging - basically a simpler RSS that the googles can pick up and post in search results. For example company announcements or informing users of issues, but outside of that, who the F is "

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[psergiu]

I can think of one Twitter user who will pay for Twitter. Actually, the US taxpayers will pay for it. And that's perfectly fine.
Twitter handle: @NASA

No subscription, charge for tweets

[dmay34]

You don't need a subscription. Just charge $0.01 per tweet. Have a user load up $10 or so to tweet, then deduct $0.01 per tweet. Most users, even pretty active users wouldn't notice and it wouldn't cost anything at all to read tweets. But it would immediately kill all of the bots and trolls.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

But it would immediately kill all of the bots and trolls.

No, I'm reasonably certain the President could afford a penny a tweet.

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[dmay34]

He could, yes. Most real users could. But the 500,000 bots that immediately retweet and shout insults at anyone that responds to him on every everything he says can't.

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[Way Smarter Than You]

This may come as a shock to you but he's got tens of millions of die hard followers in the US. If 500k of them reply back to anyone who says something they don't like that shouldn't be surprising. The reverse happens everyday as well.

It's a 50 year old line now, "Nixon? How did Nixon get elected? I don't know ANYONE who voted for Nixon!"

Hahahahahahaha

[Voyager529]

If Twitter keeps the existing tier free, they have what they have, and people will put up with ads or use an ad blocker. How many users are willing to pay for a 'premium Twitter experience'? If it's a writer, you're going to have issues once people realize that half their followers can't see their tweets unless they pony up. If you're a reader and can't see half the tweets unless *you* pay up, back to Facebook everyone goes. Longer Tweets? That's just Wordpress with extra steps. API access? I mean *maybe* that makes sense so that tweets can be automated while making spam unprofitable, but that's something they could just slap a Paypal button on and generate hashes; half of Slashdot can do that in an afternoon.

Twitter competing with Patreon? lol...again, nobody is paying for Tweets, and if you're paying for not-Tweets, you're paying for Youtube videos, which descreases engagement with Twitter. Same for basically everything else other than Twitter that Tweetreon would help pay for.

It's entirely possible that this post won't age well, but I see this going the way of Stadia - something that simply can't find an audience.

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[antdude]

In its (and other services' like Facebook and Instagram) iOS app, you can't even block its internal ads with ad blockers. :(

paying for misinformation

[sdinfoserv]

exactly which people will pay to receive texts about nonsense? Or worse... who's going to pay to try and send messages to other.. sounds like phone spamming.