People saying the entire work force is needed to make Twitter run as if they know how Twitter is run. Didn't an employee come out and say he only works 4 hours a week as an engineer for the company? lol.
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Twitter for iOS Updated With New $8 Subscription Offering Verification and More [Updated: Not Yet Live]
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Tweets from the CEO of Twitter (he’s since deleted them). We’re clearly not dealing with an adult (or a sane person) here.
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I get it. They need to make money.
One more way of looking at it...Are you paying MacRumors to post stuff here? Should they charge you $8 a month to verify you on this platform? I know, slightly different. But, both platforms have ads. How is this site still alive? I'm just saying that they have some other problems in where you have millions of users and ads, and still operate a large lost. Maybe it's the bloat they have. Anyway, just some thoughts. I could be wrong for sure.
True. But, there is no value for $8. Meaning, they should just charge for using Twitter. I'm fine with that. But, to be verified? Strange. Or at least charge the one time feed to verify the person. I don't why it needs to have happen mostly. And, don't then already have a premium version that companies and brands can pay for? Why the normal person needs to pay? I guess if you live on Twitter, you might want to pay. But, again, I would assume to promote your brand or something. Normal people like me would need to spend money monthly just to occasionally Tweet. Heck, most people rather gee anonymous anyway....internet tough guys.
One more way of looking at it...Are you paying MacRumors to post stuff here? Should they charge you $8 a month to verify you on this platform? I know, slightly different. But, both platforms have ads. How is this site still alive? I'm just saying that they have some other problems in where you have millions of users and ads, and still operate a large lost. Maybe it's the bloat they have. Anyway, just some thoughts. I could be wrong for sure.
This happens all over the place. It's not difficult to find a tech job, work hard on occasion to make your manager look good, and then coast the rest of the time. The last year of my tech job before I started my own business was like that.
He didn't even tell the joke correctly. What do you call an expert fisherman?
Genuine question here. Under US tax law can he? I wonder under which legitimate tax allowable expense a private space company would purchase a failing/unviable social media platform without questions being raised by the IRS?
The difference is that many people are genuinely excited to support Twitter because they think they’re supporting some noble cause (which is pretty obviously, partially, a crusade by Elon to influence politics at this point) and getting a blue profile sticker and other insignificant features in return, which serves little benefit to the vast majority of Twitter users. It’s particularly depressing that people are falling for his “free speech” shtick and throwing money at him in support. The Elon takeover has extremely biased political implications.
There’s no correlation between that and Apple’s pricing decisions. People are more excited to support Elon and the new Twitter than they are for the new Twitter Blue features.
Imagine supporting Melon Husk , we are really living in a clown world.
Is this the same as "When everyone is special, nobody is special"?
I get why advertisers might be concerned, but for everyone else, the uproar over this is fascinating.
Has it occurred to you when you hear differing statements, that they aren’t necessarily the same people saying it.
That’s not particularly unusual. To get more exposure or "priority ranking" for a product, cause, event, campaign, etc. you typically have to pay for it... usually through some form of advertising on television, in print, online, in app stores or wherever.
Additionally, Musk's view is that a verified account Is less likely to be a spam/bot account and therefore more worthy of higher priority rankings. I'm not sure how that will play out especially if they loosen the verification requirements too much.
The casual Twitter account user probably shouldn't care much about blue check verification or priority rankings anyway. Although some may like other features.
Not paying and using the site or not using it at all are always options.
No, it's more X is actually X posting as X. Without verification X could by Y posting as Z. Whether or not any blue tick account holder was actually important, talked nonsense or whatever wasn't the point. You knew where a tweet came from unlike random name + bunch of numbers. Now everyone could be a bot, blue tick or not. It's going to get harder to filter out the noise.
Isn't there an option to pay MacRumors for an ad-free experience?
Elon Musk owes Ukraine a free service that's costing him eight figures per month to provide?
lol
Twitter user growth is at “all-time highs” under Elon Musk
So far, Twitter hasn’t seen a mass exodus due to Musk.
www.theverge.com
I'm pretty sure this site does have a paid version. You can still continue to use twitter whether or not you are verified.
I use it 99% of the time to read other stuff, not post. So this change doesn't affect me at all. If you are someone who is very active on twitter, posting a lot, then there's good value in $8 for verification and promotion of your posts.
I can't tell if you are sarcastic or full of crap. There is nothing more free than picking the service you want, and ignoring the one you don't.
You, or anyone else can say anything you want on Twitter and I'll never see it, I'll never interact with it, and I'll never care. Does that mean you have less free speech?
Yes, the prices have stayed the same in a world where other phones have declined in price while adding actual technical improvements. It's about relative price change and value.
Seeing the disastrous consequences of a "100% free" approach to socials (especially in terms of user data), I really don't mind the proliferation of subscription models.
If one uses twitter enough to justify needing to be verified, it's ok to charge for it and it should discourage bot-spam accounts.
If one uses twitter enough to justify needing to be verified, it's ok to charge for it and it should discourage bot-spam accounts.
Absolutely not! The problem is that he is displaying the same unpredictable behavior from his business dealing to a war torn country desperately fighting to keep existing. When he would do it to other companies or adversaries, his fans would label it as 'trolling". A person with the tiniest sliver of decency would not "troll" the Ukrainian Army and people right now. The Pentagon told him that it would pay but he still had to flick the switch on and off.
Free my arse. Ukrainians pay for that service as does the US. Musk does nothing for free.