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Twitter Blue Price to Increase to $8 Per Month, Will Include Verification Checkmark and Other New Features
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So glad I’m not and never will be a member of Twitter. I get plenty of it already in news clips and other unsolicited media.
When your company loses money it's not sustainable.
For security reasons I doubt this will be the case. Presume you can go under a pseudonym.
Oh man, who's got the Michael-popcorn gif?? Twitter is going to be the most entertaining thing to watch for the next little while!
Scammers can make thousands of dollars in one day using a single social media account. Eight bucks will be nothing to them since they use stolen identities to get bank accounts and debit cards anyway. Having a payment method does nothing to prevent fraud like he thinks. I bet this only exacerbates the problem. (background: I work in fraud/AML).
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It’s hard to even get a single dollar out of rich people. Go to the nail salon or a barbershop and find out how much do they even tip. You’ll get ur answer.
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"He was a billionaire with his own private jets and his own villa, but $20 pushed him over the edge."
I agree with Stephen King. Verified accounts should be free. Everybody else who spew unaccountable garbage should pay $$.
Twitter chief Elon Musk today said that the cost of the Twitter Blue subscription is going to be priced at $8 per month, which would be an increase of $3 over the current $4.99 per month price.
Twitter Blue will include priority in replies, mentions, and search, which Musk says is "essential to defeat spam/scam," the ability to post longer video and audio clips, and half as many ads.
Musk also implied that Twitter Blue would offer subscribers a blue checkmark for verification purposes, a feature that is currently limited to those at risk of identity theft such as celebrities, journalists, and other notable influencers.
Twitter Blue pricing will be adjusted by country "proportionate to purchasing power parity," and Musk said there will be some kind of "paywall bypass" for publishers that are "willing to work with [Twitter]."
It is not clear what that last bit means, but Twitter very abruptly ended Twitter Blue ad-free access to news sites that participated in the program. MacRumors partnered with Twitter to provide Twitter Blue subscribers with ad-free articles, and on October 31, Twitter sent out notifications that ad-free articles would be disabled as of the close of the business day.
In the email, the Twitter Blue team said that resources will be instead focused on "adding additional value" for Twitter Blue members, and that an update to Twitter Blue would be debuted "in the coming weeks."
Musk is working rapidly to monetize Twitter, as the social network has historically not been particularly profitable. Musk became Twitter's CEO last Friday, and he let go of multiple Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy lead Vijaya Gadde.
In addition to introducing changes to Twitter Blue, Musk has also said that he plans to bring back video service Vine. Rumors suggest that Musk has shifted more than 50 Tesla engineers over to Twitter to work on the new features.
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He was upset at $20... think how upset he'll be with this more reasonable and easily defensible price increase. What's the point without unhinged outrage?
It's an interesting move from the perspective of public figures that just wanted something that would mark their actual account as "valid" versus the onslaught of copycat accounts. On the one hand it easily allows less prominent figures to lock in that mark of validity. On the other hand, they'd better do it quick before it gets locked down by a copycat.
Probably won't be an issue for most folks unless they have, I don't know, a really, uh, "dedicated" stalker or something like that.
Also, I wonder how different an account has to be to net the checkmark? Does it just have to be a different handle? Can they use the same display name and photo? There's levels to this.
My daughter was a cosmetologist for a few years. The stories she told about this...
Get used to it. I figure sooner or later all the “free” services will be asking for a subscription of some kind. Facebook, Instagram, the TickToks, Google. The era of the “free” service is quickly coming to an end.
How long before Tesla shareholders sue Mr. Musk for using Tesla employees for his personal Twitter project? Surely this is contrary to the fiduciary responsibility Mr. Musk has to Tesla shareholders, no?
Imagine paying to use Twitter.
Also good job Elon for making the verification checkmark completely useless now that anyone can have it just for paying $8.
Also good job Elon for making the verification checkmark completely useless now that anyone can have it just for paying $8.
+1. I had this very conversation with a friend yesterday who was complaining about subscriptions for everything. We'll be paying a "small monthly fee" for everything in the months and years to come.
Sounds like voices of the people who have been politically silenced will be heard again.
Yeah colour me intrigued but there’s going to be some devil in the detail maybe about just how easy it is to gain the verified badge
As I said my account is notable with over 60k followers. There are some copycat accounts with fewer followers than I have. I would hope this process would allow me to gain the blue tick but not the copy cat accounts
I’m an app developer with some independent apps. I hate subscriptions, but even I’m thinking about using the subscription model for some of my apps.
You'll probably have to if the market completely swings that way. "Adapt or die", as the saying goes.
Let me add something to your comment. Historically wealthy/rich people has benefit from common causes that appeals to “common” people to advance their personal interest. Nothing wrong with that. I just can’t understand why people believe that they are fighting for their rights.