Twitter for iOS Updated With New $8 Subscription Offering Verification and More [Updated: Not Yet Live]

[macsplusmacs]

Delayed Verification!

Asking for laid off employees to come back!

Twitter Inc., after laying off roughly half the company on Friday
following Petulant Ass *******'s $44 billion acquisition, is now reaching out
dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return
Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by
mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves. Others
were let go before management realized that their work and
experience may be necessary to build the new features *******
envisions, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing
private information.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...w-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back

The current Twitter CEO is throwing me for a (failed hyper) loop!!!!

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-05/Petulant Ass-*******-hyperloop-tunnel-hawthorne-removed


What a clown show.

 

[TallManNY]

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?

No I'm really addressing concern of this opening up wide scale misinformation. Since there is a charge and it can be tracked back, this probably won't radically open up the floodgates for misinformation. And it might make bots (which will still exist) less effective since the Twitter Blue folks will be having their tweets boosted but the bots won't be set up with the $8 per month payments. But there will probably be a period of time when folks are confused thinking that Twitter Blue folks are identity verified like the blue checks are right now.

Side note, Twitter seems to be delaying the role out past Tuesday US elections to avoid this confusion or at least delay the period of confusion. Probably a good idea.

 

[bobcomer]

That intentional disinformation goes both ways, correct?

Correct, I don't condone intentional lying by anyone.

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.

That's actually not politics with that description, but I agree some of it is politically based, even for me. (given some of the rumors)

Musk himself is an arrogant rich a$$ and I don't like him, but I don't really care that he can and did buy twitter, though I wouldn't invest my money on twitter for anything, it's a money sinkhole.

 

[Sayewhat]

$8 a month for paid and not verified blue checkmark is just as bad as paying $100 for a reservation on a Cyber Truck 3 years ago... and still yet to be produced.

 

[macsplusmacs]

Twitter (self driving) management right now:

 

[Gasu E.]

I’m shamelessly going to be paying for this feature tbh lol

Why is it worth $8/month to you? Genuinely curious.

 

[kppolich]

Lotta keyboard business warriors people here telling the worlds richest/arguably most successful modern businessman how to run his company he bought. You know, the whole putting your money where your mouth is....

 

[macsplusmacs]

Wonder how he is going to ask his former employees back.

If I were them, ask for a raise.

Of course, that would put him in EVEN MORE DEBT.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

What a clown show.

 

[SnappleRumors]

Lotta keyboard business warriors people here telling the worlds richest/arguably most successful modern businessman how to run his company he bought. You know, the whole putting your money where your mouth is....

Does it surprise you? The cheap seats always hold the brightest most successful people.

 

[danmaldesign]

Stop calling it verification. It's not. It's pay to play. They don't give a s**t who you are, just pay the $8 per month and you can pretend to be anybody and they will go along with the charade.

I thought it would take a year for musk to destroy twitter, he's doing it in weeks.

Amen.

 

[pauloregan]

Due to bots and **** posters the $8 is to raise yourself above those. I hope if enough people join in the bs will fester unseen at the bottom.
There will always be bad players, but hopefully after a few ironed out diggles they will be easier removed.

The trick with thinking about the blue tick is it is no long er aimed at raising the media etc above the great unwashed, but instead raising the well meaning of us above the bad players.

It’s a dream but they occasionally come true.

 

[bushman4]

When were those best days?


This sounds like a good thing

It is a good thing
Serves no purpose anymore
It’s day has gone and went

 

[bushman4]

When something dies you have to bury it
R.I.P.

 

[ScottishDuck]

It was going so well before he took over aswell. What with the subscription plan that nobody paid for and no profitability for eight of the last ten years.

Sorry if it hurts your feelings that your billionaire idol sucks at business. Without American tax payers propping him up he’d have to go back to getting apartheid money from daddy .

 

[macsplusmacs]

Scottish duck,

This look BAD even from the "cheap seats". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[ScottishDuck]

Lotta keyboard business warriors people here telling the worlds richest/arguably most successful modern businessman how to run his company he bought. You know, the whole putting your money where your mouth is....

I’m possibly unclear on what qualifies as success in business, but I feel like the guy who’s running multiple loss making businesses is possibly not the “most successful”.

Now if you wanted to talk about his ability to make people invest in his failure, he is perhaps one of the best out there. He’s even pulled a solid $5Bn from the government.

Oh and did we forget to mention that his (forced) Twitter acquisition lost him $30Bn immediately. He didn’t even have that much money, he’s now massively indebted to the lovely king of Saudi Arabia.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Sorry if it hurts your feelings that your billionaire idol sucks at business. Without American tax payers propping him up he’d have to go back to getting apartheid money from daddy .

Couldn't care less. 🤷‍♂️

 

[^^BIGMac]

I’m assuming this little girl got her pink slip yesterday. Well deserved.

 

[CarlJ]

When everyone is verified, no one is verified.

It's not even that, though - before, the blue checkmark meant you jumped through some sort of hoops to prove that you are indeed the celebrity/whatever that you claim to be.

Now what the blue checkmark will be verifying is that you did, indeed, pay $8 this month. Leaves a lot of room open for people impersonating others for nefarious purposes.

 

[burgman]

I’m possibly unclear on what qualifies as success in business, but I feel like the guy who’s running multiple loss making businesses is possibly not the “most successful”.

Now if you wanted to talk about his ability to make people invest in his failure, he is perhaps one of the best out there. He’s even pulled a solid $5Bn from the government.

Oh and did we forget to mention that his (forced) Twitter acquisition lost him $30Bn immediately. He didn’t even have that much money, he’s now massively indebted to the lovely king of Saudi Arabia.

Not to mention Binance and China

 

[burgman]

It's not even that, though - before, the blue checkmark meant you jumped through some sort of hoops to prove that you are indeed the celebrity/whatever that you claim to be.

Now what the blue checkmark will be verifying is that you did, indeed, pay $8 this month. Leaves a lot of room open for people impersonating others for nefarious purposes.

You mean like midterms in US? Just a coincidence on the timing…

 

[CarlJ]

I’m possibly unclear on what qualifies as success in business, but I feel like the guy who’s running multiple loss making businesses is possibly not the “most successful”.

Aside from Tesla and Twitter, his threats to turn off StarLink service to Ukraine, in the middle of a war, unless the Pentagon gives him a bunch of money is going to make him, uh, real popular for any further business with the Pentagon.

 

[CarlJ]

You mean like midterms in US? Just a coincidence on the timing…

The timing is tight enough timing that we'll have to wait to see how that one plays out. But, related, laying off most of the people involved in catching and dealing with problems in content is just adding fuel to the fire that is making many advertisers avoid him like the plague, while, of course, making Twitter a better mechanism for spreading misinformation.

 

[newyorksole]

It's not even that, though - before, the blue checkmark meant you jumped through some sort of hoops to prove that you are indeed the celebrity/whatever that you claim to be.

Now what the blue checkmark will be verifying is that you did, indeed, pay $8 this month. Leaves a lot of room open for people impersonating others for nefarious purposes.

exactly. like, some faceless account with weird tweets will have a blue check? makes no sense.

just because you have Twitter Blue doesn’t mean you should get a blue check. this is nuts.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

Sorry if it hurts your feelings that your billionaire idol sucks at business. Without American tax payers propping him up he’d have to go back to getting apartheid money from daddy .

That does not look too dramatic compared to Volkswagen's debt for example. A few years ago Volkswagen had a total debt of $192 billion and I think it may even have risen since then. It seems to be a part of the business model of large companies. Especially when they are in the phase of fast growth. Amazon did that over a long period. It added debt each year and yet the company got more valuable each year. The same happened with Tesla. If you can create two or three dollars of value with one dollar of debt, that is a good deal.

Some companies even do not want to have any profit at the end of the year, because profit is taxed. They rather invest that money into growth.