Right. It absolutely takes 7,500 ppl to run a chat room on AWS infrastructure…hard software engineering problem, especially with setting the character limits in code. I hope they didn’t hardcode the 280 character limit and used senior engineers to make it a variable 😁😁😁
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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'd pay $8 a month never hear about Twitter and/or Musk again.
Twitter is a joke, with or without the current owner.
Twitter is a joke, with or without the current owner.
I look forward to seeing the twitter cesspool disappear from this world. Keep it up, Elon! You are doing great🤡
The thing is, it won't be "verification" any more. Just proof of being able to pay $8.
So many people are mad that Valerie Bertinelli switched her screen name to Elon Musk and started tweeting. This didn't even cost $8 or $8 would have prevented.
it's a struggle for me because i like tweeting but my friend group is almost entirely celebs, influencers, high engagement accounts and companies. feeling so conflicted over all of this.
Is Twitter going to check that the information is correct?
Let's say my name real name is William Hansen (and its my credit card name too), will Twitter refuse if my Twitter name is Tom Jensen?
No idea and I doubt they will confirm anything beyond 'we will suspend people who violate TOS'
If the mark changes from "a specific human being" to "a human being" it's a big change.
They should have created a new mark for this.
But how will this stop William Hansen impersonating Hank Warren? Or Maria Schroder from impersonating Ewa Dorchester?
I thought it meant "verification of identity".
Also, are you saying Apple is giving away your name to Twitter when you're using Apple's in-app purchasing?
Verification sounds okay, but I always found the idea of sending a photo of my ID to Twitter very intrusive.
I once had a fake Facebook account and one day Facebook locked it and asked my for a photo of my ID to unlock it. So i used Photoshop to create a fake ID, blurred it a little to hide the imperfections and sent it to Facebook. The accepted it an unlocked my fake account.
I once had a fake Facebook account and one day Facebook locked it and asked my for a photo of my ID to unlock it. So i used Photoshop to create a fake ID, blurred it a little to hide the imperfections and sent it to Facebook. The accepted it an unlocked my fake account.
We are NEVER going to get to Mars if you keep delaying things Petulant Ass.....
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If you found my comment useful, you owe me 8 bucks.
Twitter Is Said to Delay Changes to Check Mark Badges Until After Midterms (Published 2022)
Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk’s plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.
If you found my comment useful, you owe me 8 bucks.
Is this thread the official "real time bonfire of 44 billion dollars"?
'Cause it should be.
'Cause it should be.
Funny, y'all didn't mind giving the previous "world’s richest man" Jeff Bezos tons of money buying crap from amazon. Plenty poured money into the pockets of another former "world’s richest man" Billy Gates for bad software. He in turn overpaid the worst tech CEO of the 2000s Steve Balmer and made him a billionaire. He got L.A Clippers & millions of customers got Windows Vista.
The only people paying 8 bucks a month for a blue check mark are those who already have one & their lives revolve around that. Dr Seuss wrote a story about folks paying to be "special". Ironically those on twitter cancelled him.
The only people paying 8 bucks a month for a blue check mark are those who already have one & their lives revolve around that. Dr Seuss wrote a story about folks paying to be "special". Ironically those on twitter cancelled him.
Why do Twitter users need a mark to show their Blue subscribers? Who cares besides Musk and the people who run Twitter’s advertising and finances?
That intentional disinformation goes both ways, correct? Let's not pretend the backlash against Twitter right now isn't politically motivated. Folks have way too little problems to have their knickers in such wads over Elon buying and changing up Twitter.
What’s your source for this? Most blue checks I’ve seen said they’re not going to pay it. And so far Twitter hasn’t removed checkmarks from accounts who aren’t Blue subscribers. I guess it remains to be seen if news outlets like CNN or Washington Post pay for it and pay for their employees to have it.
"Priority ranking for quality content?"
How about CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER? You know, instead of blathering about how algorithms control us, and then sticking us with yet another algorithm.
"More relevant ads"? If it's an ad, it's not relevant. End of story. I'm not paying $8/mo to still be assaulted by advertisements some algorithm decides is relevant (I promise, they're not).
How about CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER? You know, instead of blathering about how algorithms control us, and then sticking us with yet another algorithm.
"More relevant ads"? If it's an ad, it's not relevant. End of story. I'm not paying $8/mo to still be assaulted by advertisements some algorithm decides is relevant (I promise, they're not).
I mean none of this is new though (minus the checkmark). Those that pay have gotten more features and priority than others. I'm no fan of Elon, but the faux outrage over this is laughable.
You forgot about the thousands of dollars us youths spend on avocado toast every week.
Normal people will never pay for Twitter/Facebook/etc. If someone pays for a blue check mark, that will just mean they are selling something on their socials.
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Most of the weird/antisocial quirks that social media sites have developed over the years were optimizations on costs and ad revenue generation. Replies are probably sorted based on predicted profitability. The idea that people are going to run out and buy blue check marks is of course silly, but if you're going to sell them then promoting those blue checkmark posts might make some financial sense.