Twitter Could Start Charging for Verification Next Week, Edit Button Reportedly Coming to All Users

[compwiz1202]

At this rate Elon is ready to charge people for sending every single Tweet & DM’s.

Desperately, Finding a way to make his hard-earned $11 Billion Dollars back.

Yea are we gonna go back to PPU with Tweets? Will there be discounted time periods too?

 

[Corsig]

This Twitter thing and Elon are seriously getting on my nerves. Just go and check back how active Elon’s been. I don’t think he’s catching any sleep at all. He must be worried to pay back the investors and the banks.

Maybe Elon may become that only person tweeting stuff to himself 🤨

Did you delete your account yet? Delete it today and make a stand!!! Go on I dare you

 

[compwiz1202]

I need to rejoin Twitter so I can rage quit in a week or two.

Make sure to get verified so people can see your farewell tweet before two weeks

 

[ProfessionalFan]

None of it good. Hitler did many things. I do not view him as a model for my life.

Hitler ordered the murders of millions of people. How the hell do you bring him into a discussion about Twitter and Elon Musk?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Did you delete your account yet? Delete it today and make a stand!!! Go on I dare you

In progress..

How do you feel? Do you feel Elon Musk Free?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Who wants to send Tweets to Elon Musk every hour and everyday. Is anyone up for a challenge? Please 🙌 your hands. 🤪

 

[bwillwall]

I got one am enjoying watching the bird become the next MySpace right before our eyes.

And what, if any, evidence do you have of that?

 

[bwillwall]

In progress..

How do you feel? Do you feel Elon Musk Free?

Yay less snowflakes on Twitter!

 

[Enlightened Doggo]

And all the lunatics that are closing their accounts because their feelings are getting hurt, and the fact that Musk is bringing truth bombs and fair balance to your upside down world, there are just as many of us that will migrate back to the platform and happily pay the $8. I mean the audacity of him allowing debate and forcing the lunatics to actually engage in conversations and have to actually have to back up their beliefs..... yeah, I can see why the heads are exploding. Elon saved democracy.

The day the subscription changes were announced I saw tweets being promoted directly below Elon's claiming that doctors were mass murdering people the last two years and covid was made up. They "fixed" that problem by disabling the "More Tweets" section under Elon's tweets. Normal people don't want to socialize with extremists who openly express their desires to commit atrocities against doctors, ethnic minorities, or whoever else randomly attracts their ire. If Twitter stops moderating extreme content, then leaving will be the only option for sane people.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

. If Twitter stops moderating extreme content

There's been nothing to suggest they'll do this, just conspiracy theories about it. If Elon wants to remain in the App Stores which he does, he will have moderated content.

 

[vegetassj4]

Meanwhile, Android Twitter users are complaining that Apple users don’t read their tweets because of green checks.

 

[twiebnoyagad]

At this rate Elon is ready to charge people for sending every single Tweet & DM’s.

Desperately, Finding a way to make his hard-earned $11 Billion Dollars back.

$44 Billion

 

[ProfessionalFan]

And what, if any, evidence do you have of that?

None. Fantasy world or others saying it perhaps in some echo chamber elsewhere.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Who wants to send Tweets to Elon Musk every hour and everyday. Is anyone up for a challenge? Please 🙌 your hands. 🤪

Only if he pays me $8 a month

 

[yaxomoxay]

Well, being verified is often a time consuming process (you're ensuring the person making the account is THE Arnold Schwarzenegger not someone claiming to be Arnold Schwarzenegger) so there seem to be questions about how he could do this while also cutting half the workforce? Automating it down to "this person clicked a verification link in their email address" doesn't really mean they're verified in the way it does now because a scammer can use a throwaway email address. The check mark is for the benefit of twitter. It creates a valuable experience for other twitter users to know they're interacting with the real Arnold Schwarzenegger If Schwarzenegger opts not to be on twitter and a scammer impersonates him, scams other twitter users-- that's a problem for twitter, not Schwarzenegger. It will reduce the value of company and drive users away. Fewer users means fewer people they can serve ads to.

I think that the purpose is to make sure - as humanly possible - that behind an account there is a human. At $8/month bots are not going to be profitable, especially the gazillion of twitter bots that advertise crappy crypto and such. The strength for bots is in numbers.

I am pretty sure we’re going to see different tiers of verification.

 

[mpolda]

Years ago I was so excited about Elon Musk. Tesla and SpaceX both seemed so cool - and still are. But this guy has gone off the deep end lately. Closed my Twitter account this morning.

Yep, same here.

 

[Enlightened Doggo]

There's been nothing to suggest they'll do this, just conspiracy theories about it. If Elon wants to remain in the App Stores which he does, he will have moderated content.

Elon was very clear that he wanted to allow all legal speech. It's very legal to be an angry nut. He may reverse on that after realizing it will destroy the site, but that was his grand idea to "save democracy".

 

[mpolda]

Is Twitter still a thing?

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Elon was very clear that he wanted to allow all legal speech. It's very legal to be an angry nut. He may reverse on that after realizing it will destroy the site, but that was his grand idea to "save democracy".

Your personal definition of "extreme content" is likely different than the real definition of it, so there's that also.

 

[glitch44]

I think that the purpose is to make sure - as humanly possible - that behind an account there is a human. At $8/month bots are not going to be profitable, especially the gazillion of twitter bots that advertise crappy crypto and such. The strength for bots is in numbers.

I am pretty sure we’re going to see different tiers of verification.

Bots can be programmed to click verification links. And they're not going to get rid of regular accounts. So there will be bots with checkmarks and bots without checkmarks. You don't think it's worth it to run a crypto scam for $8 a month? The checkmark will become meaningless as a signifier of trust to other users. And brands won't like it, which is where their $5 billion in revenue comes from.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

? The checkmark will become meaningless as a signifier of trust to other users.

It never should have been that to anyone considering how they were handed out like candy.

 

[yaxomoxay]

You don't think it's worth it to run a crypto scam for $8 a month?

$8/month for a single bot? No, it will not be profitable for most, especially if twitter improves its bot detection software.

 

[djstile]

Free speech is a blue checkmark.

 

[JippaLippa]

Not everyone has a money tree in their back yard with an infinite amount of leafs. Maybe they can spend $20 on coffee/drinks a day because they listen to adds in between music and don't get various subscriptions. It's all about managing your balance and doing what you like. I don't have to listen to adds in between music plus other things but I never buy coffee while I am out on my own. Only when I am meeting with friends.

If you're short for cash buying 16$ a day worth of coffe/drinks isn't a smart way of life.
That said everyone's free; I'm just expressing my opinion on the matter.
Spend your money however you please, however I still have the right to think it's pretty weird.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Free speech is a blue checkmark.

This saying going around makes zero sense.

You can continue to post for free. And that isn't what the free means in free speech anyway. Not to mention "free speech" doesn't apply to a private company anyway in the first place.