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Twitter for iOS Updated With New $8 Subscription Offering Verification and More [Updated: Not Yet Live]
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I have not ever even signed up for twitter so they twit all they want about as I learned one thing in my time on earth and that is I do not even need it as a good loud mouth will tell me all about it. I just sit with my popcorn and watch the show.
Why do Elon haters spend more time talking about him than Elon lovers?Is that he brilliant before or after sexually harassing his employee?
Or is he brilliant losing racial discrimination case because he did nothing of the rampant racism occurring on the Tesla factory lines?
Judge cuts the payout in a Black former Tesla contractor's racial discrimination suit
A federal judge has slashed the award to Owen Diaz over claims that he was subjected to racial discrimination at work to $15 million. A jury had ordered the automaker to pay Diaz $137 million.www.npr.org
Or maybe he’s brilliant cause….hyper looooooop!
Or maybe he’s brilliant because he’s going to get us to mars in three more years!!!
Or maybe it’s because he just set 44 billion Dollars on fire.
Elon Musk thinks you could travel to Mars really soon
The SpaceX founder hopes to put humans on Mars in the mid-2020s, but that's just the first tiny baby step toward creating his vision of a Martian metropolis.www.cnet.com
Maybe that one, I’m going to say it’s for the 44 billion dollar one.
I wonder how many of them realize they are pushing misinformation on behalf of their masters…
I’m actually not concerned. People are waking up. Look at the NBA right now. Does that concern you that people find the truth?l
And that verification will mean nothing, since anyone can pay for it.
I don't know what point you're trying to prove by arguing a technicality into the ground. Verifications were coveted because they couldn't be bought. Now they can be bought for very little money and so they most certainly will not hold as much value. That's seriously not a difficult concept to understand.
And he also just fired so many people I'm not sure there are enough staff left to find and ban all the impersonators.
And the real problem isn't all the people pretending to be Elon Musk or Beyoncé. It's people pretending to be the local board of elections and giving the wrong polling location info. Or people pretending to be the Education Department and posting a link to a site to apply for student loan forgiveness, thereby fooling people into giving up their personal information. Sure, such accounts will eventually be found and banned, but the damage would be done by then.
What were 7500 people even doing at Twitter? 4000 ad salespeople, 3000 content reviewers, ...? Even @Jack said he hired too many people.
best part will be for those who want more interaction but having your tweets more featured
If Twitter goes, something else will replace it. I don’t know if that’s SkyBlue or…
I still thank Elon Musk very much soon having high speed internet on every plane. Some flights take 13 hours or more and the internet access on board usually was expensive and slow. Starlink will provide hundreds of megabits for the whole plane. In business class and up the might even allow you to stream Netflix.
Finally I can also imagine a cruise on a ship for one or two weeks. Internet rates on cruise ships have been ridiculous in the past. I once saw an offer of $179 for a one day flat rate. Now the first cruise ships have Starlink internet. Each ship has many dishes. That is enough for Gigabits of speed for the whole ship and even megabits per passenger even if hundreds of people use it at the same time.
So even if Elon Musk does fail with a lot of his ideas, Starlink will change a lot for so many people.
Finally I can also imagine a cruise on a ship for one or two weeks. Internet rates on cruise ships have been ridiculous in the past. I once saw an offer of $179 for a one day flat rate. Now the first cruise ships have Starlink internet. Each ship has many dishes. That is enough for Gigabits of speed for the whole ship and even megabits per passenger even if hundreds of people use it at the same time.
So even if Elon Musk does fail with a lot of his ideas, Starlink will change a lot for so many people.
The issue is that Twitter didn't seem all that efficiently run before. Not least because there is a fundamental disconnect between the product and how it monetises. This was always the problem that none of the previous people running the company appeared to have the moral courage to address.
I think it makes sense for Twitter to pursue alternative revenue streams. Looking at the state of Facebook and Google, I suspect the amount of money that brands are going to spend on advertising is only going to decrease as we head into what seems like a recession.
Second, Twitter is unique, and I am not sure if there are ever be another service quite like it (mainly because there is no money to be made in doing so). As such, I am cautiously optimistic that enough people will pay for the service.
Third, Musk is in a position to do what the previous CEO of twitter couldn't, simply because Twitter isn't public anymore. I am of the opinion that Twitter was never really suited for advertising.
Lastly, it makes sense to charge the users who actually use the service the most (ie: those who post content that drive engagement), because they by definition would benefit from the perks that having a blue checkmark gives.
Either way, either Musk succeeds, or Twitter crashes and burns, and what do we have to lose really?
This I think is very weird. There are lots of good reasons to spend $8 a month, but paying it to the richest person in the world to support them is strange.
Verification will mean that the user is verified. This is not a technicality. It’s literally what the word - and the blue check - always meant.
And they actually could be bought. There were companies who would offer to get you verified for a fee. You’ve never seen those verified accounts with 3,000 followers?
Honest question - why do you care that the blue check will lose its prestige as a status symbol? Are you verified on twitter?
People really act like $8/month for a digital service is a ton of money.
People pay like $20(?)/month for extra features on dating apps..
People spend $100’s on virtual outfits and avatars in video games..
Some people even pay for Apple TV..
People pay like $20(?)/month for extra features on dating apps..
People spend $100’s on virtual outfits and avatars in video games..
Some people even pay for Apple TV..
Supporting a business and supporting the owner of said business are not the same things.
If you enjoy using a service, are happy with how it is being run, and would like for it to continue to exist or improve, paying for it is probably a good idea.
If you think this service is important for society and all of humanity, then all the more reason.
As I said earlier in this thread, I have zero monthly subscriptions, but I will be on-board for this one, at least initially.
Seeing the White House get fact-checked on some BS this week to the point they decided to delete their tweet was alone worth $8.
The problem was that it has become a prestige symbol. People felt more important with a blue check mark. On Instagram I usually block people with a blue check mark, because if someone really sends a copy of his ID to Instagram just to appear more important, he is someone I do not want to follow. I hate people who love privileges. For example I hate if someone uses the his PhD in his name. It is nice for him to have achieved a PhD, but there is not reason to brag about it all that time. Bragging is ALWAYS bad and the blue check mark for many people is used for bragging. With the blue check mark they feel like a celebrity.
I even hate that Discord puts a crown next to my name in the members list at Discord, if I have founded the server. So I use to set a server up with one account and then use another account for posting, so that I do not stick out. Some Discord servers even have lots of different colours for different roles and some people are really proud about their colour that separates them from others. So when I set up a server, all role colours will be the same.
There seems to be a huge desire on the internet to appear superior than others. Some people brag with a blue check mark, some brag with their follower number and even have the line "100k+ followers on TikTok" in their Twitter profile. Some people even just travel to some places or buy expensive stuff to makes others jealous. I think all of those people need to see a therapist. They have not understood what is really important on life.
I might pay money for a premium version to get additional features at Twitter, but only if it does not change my appearance on Twitter. I do not want a blue check mark that suggests that I am one of the people with the small ego that pay money to stick out of the mass.
I even hate that Discord puts a crown next to my name in the members list at Discord, if I have founded the server. So I use to set a server up with one account and then use another account for posting, so that I do not stick out. Some Discord servers even have lots of different colours for different roles and some people are really proud about their colour that separates them from others. So when I set up a server, all role colours will be the same.
There seems to be a huge desire on the internet to appear superior than others. Some people brag with a blue check mark, some brag with their follower number and even have the line "100k+ followers on TikTok" in their Twitter profile. Some people even just travel to some places or buy expensive stuff to makes others jealous. I think all of those people need to see a therapist. They have not understood what is really important on life.
I might pay money for a premium version to get additional features at Twitter, but only if it does not change my appearance on Twitter. I do not want a blue check mark that suggests that I am one of the people with the small ego that pay money to stick out of the mass.
Do you feel that each time you buy something at Amazon you support Jeff Bezos? I know it is somehow different, as Jeff Bezos is only a shareholder, but each purchase also helps the share price.
I think you need to see therapist; you are overthinking this and putting way more importance than such triviality deserves. A PhD is 'nice' but don't use your qualifications as that is bragging? Seriously?
Anyway, any social media platform should have verification by default. Proper verification and accountability for what people are posting. Bluetick will be devalued now, and becomes pointless. They should have kept it and also introduce an id verification service as a one off charge.
Same for you, did you bother reading the post I was replying to before replying to me? It sure seems like you didn’t.