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Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts, Reports Suggest
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...my earlier point about Elon being a Stupid Businessman relates to this. Sure, $20 a month/$240 a year is nothing for 'celebrities' or folks with money. But being "verified" isn't just the random housewife of the week. Some famous authors, musicians & bands, weather forecasters, official business accounts, etc.. It's good to know you could be potentially communicating with the real deal and not a bot.
I've had some great heartwarming conversations on Twitter with folks like John Lurie, Dana Colley (of the band Morphine), Jim Rose from Jim Rose's Circus, A Place to Bury Strangers (band), some folks from a band called Beachwood Sparks I'm absolutely in love with, and TV's Frank (Conniff).. It's also very easy to mute an account.
I'd gladly pay $4.99 a month to remove ads and get a verified badge. And I know there's gotta be at least another 3 like me who would also. Right there there's the same $20 a month. I'm sure maybe even more like 5-6 people per would pay that much as opposed to $20. Year over Year that ends up being more than just the $240 per person. That's why I think, as a business decision, one could have made a much smarter & better decision.
Many people do not make $20 per hour. So would you work more than an hour every month to get your Twitter account verified?
dont forget Myspace 2.0, which this reeks of. Celebrity money injection to turn something around only to flop harder because they have no clue.
That would mean MacRumors being taken down as well, hope you realize that haha
For the last 12 months, Tesla took in 66B of car sales. It took in 1.6B in selling regulatory credits.
Its gross profit was 20B.
Tesla has higher profit margin than Toyota, Honda, MB, and VW. Meaning for every dollar of product it sells, it retains more in profit.
Does that answer your question?
I don't see any logical reason why the average personal Twitter user would want a verified account. I don't see why it would be important/practical to anyone other than famous (at least relatively) people or businesses whom others might try to impersonate to exploit others. And, again, I think those sorts of people/businesses would gladly pay $20/month.
Not everyone is an engineer. There are a lot of support staff and not to mention those who do not work for Twitter. Try thinking outside the little box you are in.
Look, we all get it, some people are obsessed with Elon and will do and buy every single thing he says and sells, and defend every single part of his past, there’s no getting around that. I’m not going into the deep end to research about someone I don’t care about and who constantly lies and attacks people who go after him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he drops off a sink at my front door in the next few days since he is so petty. Here are some links from five minutes of searching.
My mistake, he’s the child of an emerald mine millionaire and model.
How Elon Musk made his money - from emeralds to SpaceX and Tesla
The CEO has been the world’s richest man and played a key part in some of the most well-known technology companies around today
www.independent.co.uk
I didn’t say he didn’t deserve credit for being at the start of a company that was eventually bought out, that is how things work. He did not invent or start paypal, he was bought out by a company that EVENTUALLY became paypal, no relation to Elon…. Yet he does get credit for starting paypal which is factually incorrect.
Seems like the original founders had a lot to do with Tesla and how its vehicles operate.
Tesla Founders Talk About The Early Days Without Elon Musk Around
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning talked to CNBC about Tesla’s early days, when Elon Musk was still not around, and the Master Plan they had conceived.
insideevs.com
Maybe Tesla paid the loans back, but I did also mention his other companies, this shows his companies have and continue to receive subsidies and tax breaks.
Elon Musk is speaking out against government subsidies. Here's a list of the billions of dollars his businesses have received.
Musk's companies benefited from subsidies as recently as April, when SpaceX won a $2.89 billion contract from NASA. Tesla got subsidies for years.
www.businessinsider.com
Industry disrupting? Ok sure. Quality products? Not so much.
Consumer Reports Still Ranks Tesla Reliability 27th Out Of 28
Even though Tesla dominates CR's owner satisfaction surveys, it fares very poorly when it comes to reliability and dependability.
insideevs.com
It’s also not a judgement of realized achievements, it’s literally a matter of fact if all of these people going off on their own to create their own rockets actually paid taxes, space exploration(and basically everything else government funding related) would be much better off than what they are currently doing.
It's utility and value is determined by everyone else, not just you.
FB losing billions in market cap is real. There is real valuation tied to the stock measured in real dollars when people trade the real shares that confer real equity in the company.
Put a few bucks in a brokerage account and you'll find out how fake it is.
Someone is new to the Musk universe.
Elon Musk would get 'really angry' when employees at his first company Zip2 weren't still working at 9 o'clock at night, an ex-colleague told a BBC documentary
In a new BBC documentary called The Elon Musk Show, Jim Ambras said Musk's face "would turn red" when he saw staff were not at their desks at night.
Do your job or get fired? That’s sorta how it works, no? I’m sure there’s some hyperbole in the article.
I got mastodon and I like it! Not as populated as Twitter yet, but it’s a nice experience
I am sure threatening someone with their livelihood ending is a real great motivation for that person to find another form of employment. I had a suspicion when Elon couldn't get out of buying Twitter, he will destroy it. I guess this is the beginning? But Twitter itself isn't that novel of an idea. Sure I didn't think of it, but at the end of the day (and seemingly reason why edit wasn't part of the send tweets), is it is supposed to mimic an SMS... You had the 160-character limit, you couldn't undo or edit after texting something....
But for the $20, does that mean anyone willing to pay can get a blue tick? I would hope actual verified people, has a blue tick and someone just buying the privilege like now future spammers have a different colour to indicate such.
It is not so much the "order" they hate, it is the person giving the "order" they hate. If someone they like was doing it, they'd be defending it.
Yeah if you follow certain people, you're suspicious to the algorithm.
At the salary they are likely getting, if they can't get a simple thing like this online in a week they really deserve to be fired anyway. It'd show they are dragging their feet intentionally otherwise or just not qualified for the job and salary in the first place.
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