#superfollow

Looks like @twitter is pulling an American Express from the 80s: “Membership has its privileges." By creating a marketplace for creators, #SuperFollow appears more to be a VIP room you subscribe to. Not good. We need a 21-century Agora, a public square for all. Here are a couple of my own translations of how Twitter's help center describes Super Follows:

Translation: Hey, non-sup followers of mine! OMG, you don't know what you're missing. I wish I could show what they said, but you gotta subscribe to their VIP tweets first. Or if you want to participate in and engage with this tweet, you also gotta subscribe.

(Subscribe to creator's VIP tweets)

OMG, you super followed me. Thank YOU. Welcome to the VIP room. Swank, right?

Translation: Oh yeah, you see all these other folks sharing specific info in this community, er, VIP room, you gotta pay each of them.

So how much does it cost to belong to this exclusive group?

**for demo purposes only:

Let's say you want to create a VIP room for 130 people.

And you're willing to spend $4.99/mo. Let's simplify: $5/mo. For some folks, perhaps $650 a month is the cost of super following each other.

Or there's @SlackHQ or @Discord.

After doing a bit more sleuthing about Super Follows, I stumbled on a 10/25 tweet from a former senior community manager at Twitter.

@SBkcrn framed Super Follows as a community. But if I have to pay for a subscription to receive a creator's special feed, I see that more as an audience and NOT a community. I, too, believe creators should be paid for their expertise and talents. But don't frame it as a community.

kapag may nagfollow sa akin minsan kapag sinipag ako tinitignan ko ang page mo, wala hindi naman ako choosy, followback na lang agad kapag mukhang mabait :)

yung iba hindi ko na nachecheck back ulit. kasi meron ang bagal magload ng page, meron pa yung under construction, meron pang iba iba.. alam ko naman iba iba ang trip natin dito. OK lang kung reblogger ka wala sa akin yun. cool nga :)

kapag naguunfollow ako yun yung mga nagunfollow sa akin. simple lang like that!  :) kapag naman puros reblog at hindi na talaga ako makasabay sa trip mo ayun unfollow din. pero kahit pa puros ganoon lang ang ginagawa mo at nakapagusap tayo hindi kita iuunfollow maliban na lang kung ikaw ang mauna. para patas lang :)

salamat sa mga nagfollow, sa mga luma,sa mga susunod pa man kung meron. thanks! naappreciate ko yun! alam mo yun Tumblr lang to pero may mga taong nakakaappreciate sayo sa mga sopas post mo. nagkakaron ka ng kaibigan na hindi mo kilala, pwede kang mangtrip ng hindi mo kakilala..