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

[darkpaw]

Honest question here, I have seen this appear more than once… what’s the thread for this?

There's no thread; it's a simple take on a simple premise. If everyone on the platform decides to get verified, what's the point in verifying anyone? You're all the same. No one can claim to be who they say they are because they've all just paid $8/month.

If every citizen is verified to be one, gets its ID, then no one is verified or a citizen?

The problem with this is that when your ID is verified you are verified to be that person. What Twitter Blue does is says anyone who wants to pay $8/month can have that blue tick.

I’m an immigrant, I had to pay several many thousands of dollars for over close to a decade, to have access to the verification process: health checks, language checks, skill checks, stay enough time checks, several times over. I could have been denied or approved.

But if everyone is immigration verified then no one is?

Completely spurious argument.

I’m not following the computation for this one, unless we are referring that this verification is not really one?

Bingo! Paying $8/month gets any user a blue tick. The point of the blue tick previously was to confirm that the person tweeting really is that person. If everyone pays $8/month for the blue tick how do you know who's the real person? Someone paid $8 then changed their profile picture to Elon Musk's. His account was banned. That won't happen to everyone who does it, though. Say someone pays $8 then changes their profile picture to Cher's. Will Cher have to report every single one of those accounts?

 

[QuiteSharp]

Half the ads & much better ones

With so many companies pausing their ads on Twitter, soon you won’t even have to pay $8 to receive half the ads you used to receive. 😉

 

[Sayewhat]

Free speech now costs $8 a month. Hmm.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Free speech now costs $8 a month. Hmm.

You can post for free still if you want to. The $8 is for a blue checkmark. And "free speech" never referred to the cost of something. In addition, free speech doesn't apply to a private company.

Everything about that saying going around makes zero sense.

 

[Sayewhat]

Twitter is going to be like the dogecoin he supported. On second thought, can I pay by dogecoin?

 

[fishmoose]

Another perk of living in the EU: This crap isn’t offered to you just yet.

 

[Floop]

Twitter has been terrible for years. I'm glad to see it imploding. $8 a month? 😂🤣😂🤣😂

 

[Sayewhat]

free speech doesn't apply to a private company.

Bingo! But that is why he bought it because he was tired of a private company canceling accounts.. free speech. Now he wants to charge money on the same platform.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588750686006947840

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

I’ll pass. You can’t competently run Twitter with half of its workforce fired.

You know this, because you're a 'macrumors regular' or what? The arrogance of some people.

 

[darkpaw]

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.

Free speech doesn't entitle you to cause harm to others. Twitter - as a publicly-traded company had to apply the law. Using the n-word on Twitter, calling for another holocaust etc. is happening now on Twitter. Is that what you consider "Free speech"?

Let's say you're in a minority, say you're homosexual or Jewish. Would it be okay for randoms on the internet to call for your death? What about if they said it to you on the street? Or while you're sat in a restaurant having dinner? Are you all up for that version of free speech? If you are, then it's a very sorry place you've decided to put yourself in. If you think someone calling for your death on the street should be punished, then you finally understand what content moderation is, and why it's important.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Bingo! But that is why he bought it because he was tired of a private company canceling accounts.. free speech. Now he wants to charge money on the same platform.

Again the "free" in "free speech" has nothing to do with the price of something.

In addition, the money is for a checkmark. You can use the site the same today as last week for free.

 

[Sayewhat]

Again the "free" in "free speech" has nothing to do with the price of something.

In addition, the money is for a checkmark. You can use the site the same today as last week for free.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

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The price is for a checkmark. It is free to post there and will remain free.

You think it'll cost 8 bucks to post there?

 

[ProfessionalFan]

You know this, because you're a 'macrumors regular' or what? The arrogance of some people.

According to Elon, there were 10 managers for every 1 person working.

 

[The Game 161]

People will get used to it and get over the price

 

[darngooddesign]

Free speech isn't free.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Free speech isn't free.

Good grief, how many people are going to repeat this same incorrect line?

You can post for free still if you want to. The $8 is for a blue checkmark. And "free speech" never referred to the cost of something. In addition, free speech doesn't apply to a private company.

Everything about that saying going around makes zero sense.

 

[BurgDog]

not necessary

 

[burgman]

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.

Every forum administrator knows where this will end up. Power to the people? Is this a 60’s movie? Hey Elon write a Tweet about how it feels sitting in the empty C level offices watching all that Chinese cash burn so quickly. Great baller move allowing sad people to feel empowered for $8 for a fake checkmark.

 

[staypuftforums]

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

Can’t do that. It’s against twitter TOS.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Great baller move allowing sad people to feel empowered for $8 for a fake checkmark.

Most of the people complaining are the rich entitled celebrities who don't want the checkmark available to peons like us

 

[staypuftforums]

That relies on the assumption that most people are willing to pay $8 a month to use twitter…. Which is laughable.

Something like 10% of twitter users are responsible for 90% of all tweets.

It’s not unreasonable to expect that 10% will be verified moving forward.

I don’t have any monthly subscriptions, and I’m going to try it at least for a month.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

I don’t have any monthly subscriptions, and I’m going to try it at least for a month.

Yep I plan to have my business twitter account on it. I couldn't get verified before cause I didn't know the right people. That's all it took previously.

 

[8281]

Great. When it goes live I’ll jump in. I’d rather have a profitable Twitter than one that ceases because bankruptcy.

You do you I guess, but you know the blue check will become a reverse filter of sorts marking people as suckers right? You’re throwing money away to the richest man on the planet who overpaid for a bad acquisition.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

You do you I guess, but you know the blue check will become a reverse filter of sorts marking people as suckers right? You’re throwing money away to the richest man on the planet who overpaid for a bad acquisition.

All the celebs idolized by people will still have the check free for the time being also