You're implying that the only people whose identities are worthy of verification are celebrities, influencers, and politicians. That sort of create this caste system on Twitter where you're either an elite with the blue tick or you're one of the peons without it. So, any tweet without a blue tick isn't worth reading. I'm not sure that's really in keeping with the spirit of the platform. I get that they were trying to separate the impersonators from the actual people, but there's no reason that needs limited to only celebs and the like.
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It doesn’t defeat it all. Should only “special people” be able to get passports or driver licenses?
So at the end of the day this is nothing more than increasing the price of Twitter Blue to $8? And adding the checkmark (because the people who don’t have the checkmark are way more obsessed about it than those who do)? Are they going to remove the checkmark from those who don’t pay $8/mo? Will there be any real verification tied to the checkmark or do you just get one if you give Twitter $8/mo (however you choose to pay)?
So those who want the benefits of Twitter Blue pay $8 a month?
Those who want the benefit of Twitter Blue Verified is $20 a month?
Is that it?
Those who want the benefit of Twitter Blue Verified is $20 a month?
Is that it?
Probably real people are the ones paying a monthly fee. Just a guess.
The worst to me are streaming and apps. Why do you need a sub for a simple checkbook register that never needs to change? I found one for 99 cents one time payment.
IMO, The Verge has been on a long downhill slide and the redesign is the nail in the coffin. I used to visit there 3-4 times a week at least. But without Dieter Bohn’s reviews and the terrible design I almost never visit there.
It's great as long as it's being updated and it's a reasonable price. But not for a simple checkbook register or other app that never needs to change. I'll gladly pay a sub for an MMO because it is still getting updates after a decade or two.
But who is saying the only thing worth reading is what comes from a blue check? It seems like that’s a straw man narrative created by Musk’s new constituency. I’ve seen a number of ‘blue checks’ say they don’t care if Twitter removes it. Again it seems like the ones most obsessed with the blue check (or think it’s some kind of status thing) are the ones who don’t have it.
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The problem is that people really bulk at an up front $20-30 fee for an app. But what’s dumb is that they’ll gladly pay $2.99 a month instead. Those cheap and free apps from the early days of the App Store really hurt the entire app ecosystem in the long run.
Oh no... anyway.
Celebs are showing what kind of babies they are by crying over this, as if the blue checkmark gives them some kind of importance.
Well, if you pay monthly with your credit card then that means you are talking to the real person too. Thats the whole point, don't you think?
I wish we could go back to flat fees. Better if there is a demo or lite version for free or 99 cents that you can pay to upgrade to the full app without losing anything
The Twitter deathspiral continues.
The verified users with huge followings bring eyeballs to the platform. Instead of sharing ad revenue with them like Twitch, YouYube, TikTok, etc. he is now asking those creators to pay him $8/month for the privilege of working for him for free.
The verified users with huge followings bring eyeballs to the platform. Instead of sharing ad revenue with them like Twitch, YouYube, TikTok, etc. he is now asking those creators to pay him $8/month for the privilege of working for him for free.
Remember Elon's intention to have twitter become a "digital town square". Verifying every member is a no brainer to accomplish this. It solves so many issues. The problem is how to incentivize people to get verified, and how to make money. Charging a steep fixed monthly fee just to have the check does not seem viable to me. I wonder if they could charge based on a scale of how many followers you have, and allow variable amounts of included promotional services as part of the deal. That way the average Joe may only have to pay $1 or something, while the top accounts might pay $100 a month but receive some free advertising built-in.
The big positive to this is that it ends the connection between Verified and authoritative. Because the blue checkmark certainly does not make anyone authoritative and there has been a lot of misrepresentation or omission of fact.
There is a subtle genius to this.
There is a subtle genius to this.
I really wish App Stores allowed some kind of versioning feature like in old days of software. I could continue to update an app and only charge users when I release a version 2, 3, etc. That seems fair to me. If version 2 doesn’t have what a user wants, they can continue to use version 1. It would be up to the developers to entice users to purchase the new version rather than just charging a monthly subscription fee.
Bingo. People are reading too much into what has and hasn't been said. Opening up verification to _everyone_ is a good thing. Anyone who Tweets a lot and finds value in Twitter will likely sign up and (hopefully!) get verified along with other features. As mainly a reader of Twitter, I look forward to when I can select to only read Tweets from those I follow or those who are verified. It will basically kill the bot the problem, and let me block idiots.
