I‘m sure advertisers are tickled blue at Musk threatening them on top of the new $8 fee for the check mark.
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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 expect Apple will drop the app anyway. Apple won't go against the alliance of companies who refuse to do business with Twitter.
I highly doubt that. And even in the off chance they did, i find it weird people would celebrate that. It would be removing an app before it even did anything wrong. Just because of who owns it and because he’s guilty of thinking “wrong”.
Twitter would probably run better with 25% of the staff who are competent and who actually work. It's fine to cut the fat.
if Musks estimate of having like 10 manager role for every engineer was even remotely close to true then pretty sure this reduction was absolutely necessary.
will see in coming months, calling this bad move right now is pointless.
OP was arguing for bots being verified/blue checked
i'm arguing this wont be the case if implemented properly
this doesnt stop bots from roaming on twitter. just makes it hard AF for them being verified.
The checkmark was designed to confirm the account is of the person it claims to be. it has nothing to do with expertise or reliability. Real people are verified and say things that are incorrect or mislead.
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if only there were another substance buried in the earth that we could drill for and refine to power our automobiles
The check are definitely did not signify anyone to be an expert of anything as seen by all the idiotic hot takes posted by blue checks.
The thing with the checkmark is that you are supposed to prove who you say you are. If $8 just buys the checkmark but no means of verification are in place, then what's the point? I'm not mad about charging $8 it's the lack of controls on who gets it. I could pay $8 and say I'm you or pretend I am MacRumors official account.
That basically loses its whole value if everyone does that with no means to know who real sources are. And since everyone is verified with no proof, then no one is verified and defeats the purpose. So then why pay? And why would advertisers spend $ on a platform where no one knows who is real and who isn't.
Why would companies & influencers stay if people are pretending to be them to sell other garbage? It would ruin their brand. So, casual users leave, high engagement accounts leave, credible sources leave, celebs leave, "influencers" leave, companies leave. Who is left and what makes it valuable enough to continue to justify paying $8/mo a year from now? And for how long?
Facebook is drooling over this because people will go back to it (for a while) and amp up their engagement there and on Instagram while we wait for the next platform to emerge. TikTok will become even more popular and very very likely, Jack will take everything he learned from Twitter and make BlueSky the next Big Thing.
The ramifications on an editorial, journalistic, harassment & just outright fraud scale aside, it's really an unsustainable business model. It's why Twitter went to court to force the sale that Musk tried REALLY REALLY hard to back out of.
So I'm not mad he's charging people at all but the fallout of what's coming is pretty clear to anyone with any sense. And honestly, perhaps burning it all down is exactly what society needs. This is absolutely going to become a case study in B-schools when it's all said & done. Incredible. lol.
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Beyond delusional and embarrassing. 😂 Musk is a whiny child.
Twitter is such a complicated subject and in a state of flux right now, so hard to know whether it's going to be good or bad. It's the WhatsApp of microblogging (i.e. very sticky, no where else to go -- see the failure of gab, truth social, etc.). It's not a question of whether it will remain a success (if you think it will fail, please let me know where you're planning to go), it's only a question of how big of a success and how well it will be run. IMO, the potential is huge. I think Musk will make some very significant changes. I can see them taking away business from sites like substack since Musk has hinted at a new service in 2 weeks allowing folks to make long posts that can be monetized.
I'd rather have a profitable Twitter than one that was forced into bankruptcy by Elon Musk's failures.
1. Nice original thought. I saw that Elon tweet meme a few days ago and have been
2. I spend more well more than $10 at Starbucks, more days than not, thank you very much. One hour of Starbucks enjoyment, aka coffee and a meal, is worth more to me than less-spammy Twitter for one month.
3. I pay $6/year for an ad-free Twitter client. Tbh, any power user should. The Twitter app is garbage. I would have absolutely nothing to gain from Twitter Blue unless I wanted a badge over my profile saying “I’m a sucker”. Less ads for $96/year is a joke and nobody who thinks that’s a legit selling point is sadly ill informed.
Too heck with all social media. I have cut the cord on all of it. No FB, Twitter, Snap, Reddit, ect. It was a bit hard getting used to it but now 3 weeks later I have found a lot more time to do useful things. Yeah I have lost touch with a few people who refuse to pick up a phone or even text me now but I think if everyone said bye to social media we all would be better off.
WhatsApp:
- Doesn't have a website.
- Because there's no website there's no need to localise everything, just the app.
- Doesn't let you embed messages in web pages.
- You can't 'retweet' messages.
- Does WhatsApp moderate the content of messages? No, so no need for a team to do that.
- You can't follow people's every message in every chat, because they're generally 1:1 conversations. Twitter does this as Direct Messages.
Pretty much, Twitter does WhatsApp in the DMs.
If WhatsApp doesn't need to do some of these features it wouldn't need to employ people to develop and maintain them.
WhatsApp and Twitter are completely different.
Meh! People will either buy it or they won’t. Twitter will either disappear with a Thanos snap, or it’ll be fine.
I’m not an Elon fan nor hater. I don’t care what he does with his money and how he runs what owns.
I’m not an Elon fan nor hater. I don’t care what he does with his money and how he runs what owns.
Which the $8 a month won’t fix, but for some reason that seems to go over everybody’s head.
Every form of Social Media is full of trolls, lies, and bots. I miss the old days things like AIM, and Myspace when it first went live. Then the a holes of world had to ruin everything for everyone. Even this site at times with the clear Apple haters gets annoying from time to time.
Are you really still this upset about them banning one person?