NYTimes Announces Paywall, Twitter Immediately Finds Ways Around It
It’s not the first newspaper to put up a paywall, but the New York Times is certainly getting a lot of flack on Twitter for its subscription plan announcement. They pushed out the news by buying a promoted trend yesterday, and Twitter jumped on it – to voice their dislike, and even to offer ways to access Times’ content without paying.
The New York Times purchased #NYTimesNews yesterday as a promoted trend, and pushed out this tweet along with it:
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