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Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts, Reports Suggest
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There was a tweet about this (cannot find it anymore) and people voted they will pay $5, $10 and $20/month. Elon liked the idea, he replied Interesting. Now it looks like he is making it happen. I love how he put it: "Make it happen by November 7, or you get fired." 🤣
Honestly, if people want to have a blue checkmark next to their name, let them pay.
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Anyone can purchase DID numbers in bulk at a deep discount, plus dialer bot software and machines and if need be an agent when the hook has a live one to reel it in. If the scam was not lucrative, organized criminals would not invest in it. I have seen and read many educated people get scammed of all ages.
The bigger question is why do people still fall for it.
I don’t have anything against charging for verification what bothers me is charging monthly. Verification is a one time cost to Twitter, so should be a onetime charge to the user. I don’t care if it’s a $500 one time charge, it should be one time…
The $20 monthly is the Elon Musk Vanity Tax.
The Blue Checkmarks are rich, wealthy, the influencers with rich sponsors, or the celebrity persons with millions of cult followers. They don't want to be lumped in with the Twitter peasants. They want to stand out. Special. Elites. So they must pay for their vanity designation. They pay Elon's vanity tax.
the checkmark is more for the followers than for the wealthy people. i don't want to read tweets from the president without knowing for sure that's really the president's account.
I'll believe it when I see it. All these reports are dubious at best. I think if they were going to charge a monthly fee for public figures to have a blue checkmark they'd have to include better analytics and some other perks. I wonder if regular people would want to be verified for a small one time fee to use the service. I personally wouldn't mind, as long as it was a one-off and provided I could still remain anonymous in terms of username handles etc. One real person per Twitter account would be beneficial for everyone, in my opinion.
The rumoured price of this has been different in every article I’ve read so far lol. This is the highest and the lowest was $4.99.
Today Elon asked to Stephen King on Twitter, if $8 per month would be okay. It seem $20 is not the final word.
Stephen King: "Sure, $8 sounds reasonable. But throw in an exorcism and a murder clown to make it worth it!"
Yep. And here’s his answer which was actually what I said some stars would say yesterday
$20 a month to keep my blue check? **** that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.
The really obvious explanation is he wants people to leave.
Twitter had already planned on reducing its workforce by 25% ANYWAY.
Musk wants that number higher - he's ruthless about running a lean operation and you're either with his vision or you're out.
No, there’s a bunch of no name people with one also. This is why it is good he is doing this. Too many people think like you and assume verified means important.
We will see, he succeeded in running a car company from near-zero and a space company.
Twitter doesn’t pay itself. After spending $44 million on a bad deal, is now up to the user to pay for his mistake. Next year he will sell it for a massive loss. Twitter needs to RIP next to MySpace.
Musk threatening to fire employees if they don’t meet his deadline is actually an incentive to fail.
It seems Twitter already has the payment infrastructure for the $4.99 Twitter Blue option. Then it should not be too complicated to create another paid option for $20 instead of $4.99 very fast. In the end you could batch delete all blue checkmarks of people who did not book the $20 option. The other group is more complicated though: The people who will pay $20 per month, but do to have the checkmark yet. Those will all still have to be verified. Just paying money can't get you verified.
Are we supposed to be upset that King and other celebs say they'll leave Twitter? They are likely all talk anyway but even if they did, do people care what they think that much?
If even rich people like Stephen King do not want to pay money, that shows that is more a principal problem and not so much about the amount. At least for those rich people.
I certainly could not afford $240 a year. I could in theory, but $240 is money I better invest into making my summer vacation a little longer or better. And just think what you can buy if you save $20 per month for ten years. That's a MacBook pro or something like that.
I certainly could not afford $240 a year. I could in theory, but $240 is money I better invest into making my summer vacation a little longer or better. And just think what you can buy if you save $20 per month for ten years. That's a MacBook pro or something like that.
I think some people are still misunderstanding this rumored price. It is for a checkmark, one that will be pointless (more than it is already) if it can be bought. You'll still be able to post and read for free.
It is not at all a principle of money for Stephen King.
He is loudly and actively political (just look at his feed), and his political beliefs do not align with Elon. This is his way of vocalizing protest.
and given that he uses Twitter as a megaphone to voice his belief (rather than to promote books), the chances of him actually quitting Twitter is likely next to 0.