Not everyone may know or remember this, but neither Twitter nor Facebook were built on the paradigm of selling user data. That came later.
Like both of them literally did not know how to make money when they started out. Facebook would have been hotornot today if they didn't change so much. Who knows how Twitter would be like today if they went ahead with paid accounts
@plsburydoughboy Paid accounts would kill any major social media platform. Even a Mastodon instance with paid accounts (if that's even possible) probably could not stay profitable.
@plsburydoughboy LinkedIn is a bit different and to just use the site you do not need to pay. My understanding is that the paid LInkedIn features are things like InMail.
@skquinn Twitter would have applied paid accounts the same way
@skquinn It worked for LinkedIn