WATCH: ‘I have never seen Twitter as immediately mad as it is about the NYT Wordle buyout’: Fans of Wordle are furious after The New York Times said it was acquiring the viral word game
acquisition of Wordle has created uproar on social media, with fans expressing fears that the popular online word game, which is currently free to play, might be put behind a paywall.
That wording led some social media users to suggest the media company would soon allow only subscribers access."I have never seen Twitter as immediately mad as it is about the NYT Wordle buyout," one user tweeted. "The NYT took one nice and simple thing that a lot of people really liked, a dumb bit of fun in our exhaustingly dark times, and implied that they'll stick it behind a paywall.
The once-a-day online game gives a player six chances to figure out a five-letter word, using the least number of guesses.Read Moreon Twitter. "After all, I am just one person, and it is important to me that, as Wordle grows, it continues to provide a great experience to everyone." The newspaper was an early adopter of the paywall when it started digital subscription plans back in 2011. That strategy helped it buck the trend of falling print revenues and build a digital business.
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