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Twitter Blue Relaunching on Monday With Higher Price on iPhone and Account Review Process
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Guess how many millions of people pay for Hulu, Netflix, Disney, HBO, and more with ads. Welcome to 2022.
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The blue tick is something you pay for if It's important to you that people knoe it's you and not a fake accound (think influences, politicians etc) they don't really give a damn about ads because they never see them in their clients, esp if they are big engh to have a dedicated soial media person toio do pposts for them.
I think you raise fair points about broadening the feature to more people and additional services for the fee. (I didn’t make a point about paying to post, perhaps that’s from someone else?)
my point was more about the perceived positioning on the checkmark—how i think it will be perceived. i think Elon is destroying the brand of twitter, and along with it the meaning of the blue check marks. (E.g. this very morning he is doxing a former Twitter employee and spewing hatred to Faucci. I believe this will destroy the platform for many users and advertisers. There are already to social,platforms that behave this way, and they don’t go far.)
but of course, this is just speculation about the future. I don’t know. Nobody does, even you.
(p.s. you raised interesting points. Perhaps think about the tone, e.g. a 2 sentence post is most certainly not “rambling”)
I'd point out that Apple only permits certain pricing on their App Store. Under rules that have gone back more than a decade, prices must end in .99. Just recently, Apple made some changes for new price structures going forward that permit lower prices like $2.49, but I don't think that's implemented yet. For now, it's either $9.99 or $10.99. Even at $10.99, Apple's cut is $3.30, which reduces Twitter's cut to $7.69, less than the $8 they charge.
Credit card processing, full support, security, Hosting, APIs and Updates are included in the 15-30%
This is just a money grab by Elon. Notice, he wants to charge $8 for something that cost him nothing to do, but wants to use someone else’s technology to do it for free. Not only that but he wants to use Apple’s marketing, stored credit cards, and goodwill to make money, but cut them out. Twitter can easily be a web app. They would just need to find their own customers and not rely on Apple to provide them.
Or more likely:
It wasn't noticed in review (looks at all the copycat and scam app that made it through)
Or was deemed "2 big 2 follow the rules" also something not really new.
Still don't care bout Twitter other than all this drama being top tier entertainment.
Apple won’t be charging Twitter users extra, Musk will. He wants to use Apple’s Store to boost his angertainment app but doesn’t want to pay for it so he will be taxing his users to cover the cost for no extra benefit to themselves.
Last I checked, Elon wasn’t helping Apple Pay for development costs as a charity.
No one is entitled to free services and Apples customer base.
Exactly. No big deal. If you do not want to make the effort to type in some details and your credit card info on Twitter’s website, but use the convenient subscribe button in the app, you pay $3/month more. Total non-issue.
You're paying to post here on MacRumors. Maybe not with your wallet, but with ad impressions. Nothing in life is free.
You do get that software was often marked up 100% or more when your only purchase option was a physical shop?
Do you remember when we queued up overnight to buy OS updates at launch? Paid...
Seriously, people need to think what they get for nothing these days.
I finally got around to deleting my Twitter account, and removed the App from my devices. It’s like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders! 😉
Let me get this straight: you *want* governments and corporations to more tightly control the flow of information? Because someone said something problematic?
All over the world, people are making the same mistake.
- Edward Snowden
All over the world, people are making the same mistake.
- Edward Snowden
Ditto. Maybe even at the exact same time. Like with Facebook, it feels like it’ll be permanent.
Like they say businesses never pay taxes. They just raise their prices to cover the increase. This is no different.
