I’ll be signing up. I have no problem paying a little to support Elon in his efforts.
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Twitter for iOS Updated With New $8 Subscription Offering Verification and More [Updated: Not Yet Live]
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There still is a way for celebrities to prove they are real. They can put a link to their official website in the bio and on that website they put a list of all of their official accounts on all social networks. So with some effort, others can still check if an account is real.
And a real celebrity usually has a lot of followers. The real Tim Cook has 13.7 million followers on Twitter. The account with just 5,000 followers must be fake.
And a real celebrity usually has a lot of followers. The real Tim Cook has 13.7 million followers on Twitter. The account with just 5,000 followers must be fake.
It's taken 4K people to censor messages in the past, but now with censorship pared back to practically nothing, they will be of little use.
Took me 2mins 10 years ago to set it aside. Along with the SnapTikTakGrams too as they appear.
How do you know? Why on earth would it take 7,500 employees to run Twitter in the first place?
so anyone can buy a blue twitter checkmark?? this is not right.. there are many accounts out there that will pretend to be something or someone official. Many fan accounts out there for instance, and that will confuse people
Amazing how up in arms people are over this. I would never pay the $8/month (nor care about having a blue check next to my name) but wow are people butt hurt over this and Elon buying Twitter. 🤣
Yeah, that was my thought. I readily pay to remove ads. Paying to reduce them really doesn't do it for me.
Can't wait for the elitist class of $8 blue checkmark people tell me how to run my life and what their opinions are.... was opposed to the poors without a blue checkmark telling me how to run my life. 😂
They are better because you are paying for them... It's all about perception.. lol
Musk confirmed this was happening in the replies. Verified accounts have often been sold, so Twitter employees wanting in on the action isn’t surprising.
Tweetbot has zero ads and is about $9/year. It's not got all the features of the official Twitter client - you can't vote in polls, approve followers if you're a protected account, etc. - but it's pretty good.
This is why Elon is the wealthiest man in the world. All of the whining aside, he cut the fat and is working to make the company profitable. It's not the twitter of 2011, the number of employees and the lack of revenue wasn't sustainable in 2022. A few celebrities and other whiners will leave, but the vast number of influencers won't go anywhere, their voice is too important to them. The few people that are uninstalling as a statement against Elon's business practices won't amount to much, sorry guys. I love how he made everyone come back to the office. That move alone will cancel out 25% of the workforce he fired. Sounds like Twitter employed a bunch of millennials. I've been laid off a few times in the tech industry and it's part of doing business and making the big bucks. Get over it and find something else. If you get another job inside of 90 days, you must made a bonus. Sheesh.
That relies on the assumption that most people are willing to pay $8 a month to use twitter…. Which is laughable.
I read that they lost about $221m last year, that's $4.25m per week, not per day.
Also, how do you know "the majority were dead weight"? The Accessibility team were let go. They're the people who make Twitter accessible, i.e. let blind users tweet and read tweets. Were they dead weight?
Imagine being so mad you were fired from your job at a social media company, only to complain about it on the same social media.
Sorry, but this is just dumb. „Verification“ only makes sense for people who are in danger of being impersonated, i.e. politicians, celebrities, public figures of all sorts. This new policy is all about milking the gullible for now getting that same „prestige“ icon and/or milking the self-important so that their „un-verified“ content is not down-ranked; in other words „free speech“ according to Musk now means „8$/month speech or no-one will see it“. And that jerk still has apologists.
These companies need to realize that canceling goes both ways. Supporters of Free Speech are also willing to cancel these companies for running away from free speech. Caving into a small minority mob is not always the smart thing to do.
There are a lot of companies that can function quit well with half the work force gone. Any company that has safe spaces and game rooms, lounges etc, has too many people employed.
I have worked at several places that had been sold, and the new owners first action was big layoffs.