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Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts, Reports Suggest
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Let's not pretend as if charging $5 or 20 for a blue badge is an engineering decision!
#notatechcompany
I don’t understand his strategy. With a price increase like this he incentivizes ‘non-verified’ accounts. If you mix that with his desire to allow for ‘more freedom of speech’, you end up with even more @ssholes screaming anonymously. At least with a verified account, you can tie it back to a real person and that should at least dampen some of the racist, violent comments.
I'm quite sure I'm not alone in saying this fee wouldn't have affected me because I'm a nobody, but I've also just recently deleted my personal and business Twitter accounts. It's overrun by bots / angry nut jobs.
I have felt a lot happier without the negativity. It won't be missed.
I have felt a lot happier without the negativity. It won't be missed.
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It's your typical narcissist.
It’s for verification, not usage. It’s just for the blue tick,
Something that so far is only for celebs and other notoriety.
Now you can PAY for notoriety and of course there’s people out there that are itching to get ‘verified’ next to their INSANE tweets.
Like Steve. And he was a genius that propelled us into the future. Also, it’s the internet. So you have no clue how credible this is, or if there is pertinent context.
Musk has reportedly told engineers to have the project completed by November 7 or else they'll be fired, per "internal correspondence" and sources familiar with the matter who spoke to The Verge.
They surely forgot to quote the word "up" after Musk's "fired". Such a charismatic leader he indeed is! 😄
He’d need 18 million people to subscribe for ten years straight to make that back.
Just like Elon, yep.
I don’t see the value in spending that sort of money on the platform. Better to invest in a grass roots social network rather than this manufactured and re-engineered garbage.
Twitter has always been a garbage platform and it still remains so. The fact that it has become a favorite of the press / media just exemplifies their blatant laziness. (As the platform began as a short message service when text messaging, SMS, was already WELL ESTABLISHED.)
I genuinely hope this is the beginning of the end of Twitter, as we know it. (Though who knows if what rises from the ashes is any better?). LOL
Twitter has always been a garbage platform and it still remains so. The fact that it has become a favorite of the press / media just exemplifies their blatant laziness. (As the platform began as a short message service when text messaging, SMS, was already WELL ESTABLISHED.)
I genuinely hope this is the beginning of the end of Twitter, as we know it. (Though who knows if what rises from the ashes is any better?). LOL
It is how a good boss operates. They aren't your friend, some will try and be fake like they are but they aren't. I'd prefer someone who is real and upfront, than the fake and stab you in the back type.
I think Steve “was an *******” before he created iPod or iPhone, among other products. So I’m not sure I agree with what I am perceiving as a sarcastic rebuttal. And also he kinda has already with the whole landing rockets thing. Baby steps.
Edit: though seeing your other comment above perhaps you were agreeing lol idk I’m confused.
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Oh, I'm full aware of what you get out of this. I was being facetious. But, he'd make more money if he charged less.
Ouch! Mass exodus out going internally and externally.
There are currently thousands of no-name people with the coveted blue checkmark spending 24/7 trashing Elon just because they were brainwashed into disliking him. Can't fault him for trying to get 20 a month from them for that privilege.
I'll believe it when I see it.
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I find this to be quite funny and rather smart; having that check mark is such a status symbol to some people, that they'll part with a lot more than $20/m to have it. Might as well milk their most ardent users.
You can call him a lot of things, but he is definitely NOT a stupid businessman. His business acumen is unparalleled. Think about how many companies he built from ground up. You don’t become the richest man in the world by being stupid.
I guess celebrities can easily afford it and Twitter verification is mostly about verifying celebrities. The only reason anyone I know uses Twitter is because celebrities they like also use it.
He fires people openly at Tesla, so he will run Twitter the same way.
He had staff print out source code to show him what they have done. That's not incompetence but megalomania.
I still fail to understand how/why people (like Elon) still compare Twitter to Facebook. Other than being "social" networks, they're still quite different overall. Twitter doesn't sell any of your personal information (yet), and even if it did, what information would that be? Notes in your bio? Facebook has ALL sorts of personal information, pictures, stats, aggregated data on the things people like.. It's really Night & Day in that regard. I got off Facebook 6 years ago and have stayed off, because I knew the one person in charge wanted to take all of my information and make money off of it.
If Elon's plan is to just charge people $240 a year to say it's really them? Have at it. Maybe he'll add more servers and backend to their infrastructure.
If Elon's plan is to just charge people $240 a year to say it's really them? Have at it. Maybe he'll add more servers and backend to their infrastructure.
Makes sense to me. Having a working credit card to your name is probably one of the few automatic ways left to determine whether somebody is a real person or not. Note that this is not a fee to use Twitter, it's only to be featured as a verified account. Previously there was simply no way as a regular person to achieve that, now you can at least pay your way in (which arguably is a much fairer solution than having a secret committee of people deciding who gets them).