Twitter acquires Scroll as it builds towards future subscription service
(Android Central)

Twitter is planning a pivot into the content business. What you need to know Twitter today purchased Scroll, a paid ad removal service aimed at readers who want to support sites without ads. The company is immediately pausing all new sign-ups to Scroll. In the future, Twitter plans to launch its own subscription service, and Scroll will form a part of that. Twitter today announced its latest purchase, Scroll, a platform aimed at helping users remove ads from websites. For a selection of websites, users would pay a monthly subscription to Scroll and have their ads removed while still supporting the creators. Scroll would pocket a little of what was paid and pass the rest on to the websites. Other than that, it would also provide `a blazing fast experience that loads with no ads, no dodgy trackers and no chumboxes of clickbait`, and it`s that reading experience that leads Twitter to snap it up. The company says that Scroll`s reading experience is something they`d want for an upco...