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Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts, Reports Suggest
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I'm supposed to be impressed that a wealthy guy was able to pivot into an unscrupulous car salesman? Really setting the bar high there lol. My idea of a great man is not a wealthy crook who dumps on regular Joes for profit by any means necessary. The quality of a man's character is not separable from his work, and you can't pin a lemon media property on customers like you can a car.
And why would a “no name” person need a verified account??
the whole point of blue tick is to confirm it’s the person claimed to be and avoid fake accounts pretending to be someone else.
This means celebrities.
I don’t see why a nobody NEEDS that.
It doesn't just mean celebrities. It just means notable. You've been in the news for some reason. Or you're a representative of a notable organization. Or you have credibility within an industry.
X Verification requirements - how to get the blue check
The blue Verified badge on X lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. Learn about which types of accounts become Verified.
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Engineers provide work estimates, they implement and test. Sometimes they suggest things that could be done.
Decisions on what new features or changes to do and assigning resources (budget+engineers) to projects doing the work is all Product Management and Management in general.
Don't blame the engineers, they can only do the work if assigned to it.
I have zero interest in whether youre impressed by him or not.
You disputed a claim that he took a company from near zero to success. I challenged you to substantiate that claim.
All youve done is hem and haw and shifted the goal posts from here to there.
Your emotion wasnt on trial, but it sure was on display.
Plus free speech and censorship have to do with government. You still have to deal with the consequences from people and businesses within the law.
What a crock of ****. Now the blue check simply means it's a paid account. What good is that?
Musk: Let's get rid of the blue check for nobles only!
Musk without spin: Let's have people pay money to show they paid money and get rid of any indication that they are who they say they are.
I smell a fallacy. A good boss should neither be a backstabbing pretend friend nor an ass.
A good boss will get work estimates from engineering, time and effort, and base a real timeline on that. Instead of setting a deadline hes pulled out of his backside and threaten doom and destruction. He can apply pressure to the estimated timeline but will often have to accept an increase in risk.
He should be respected, not be a incarnation of Cthulhu.
Meh. Even bad people often believe they have good intentions and don't think of themselves as completely raving nutcases.
$8 is much closer to $4.99, but I'm still not going to be verified 😆
lol here we are in an Apple iPhone every year buying crowd moaning about $20 for an OPTIONAL blue tick
It is all about who is charging for it. Elon is the one charging so there is anger. He could charge a buck and there'd be an uproar. I am convinced he could offer to pay 5 bucks to every user who signs up and there would still be an uproar.
It will be a very costly mistake, amounting to a ton of debt. It's bad enough he plundered his personal stake in TESLA to enable his Twitter adventure (leaves a bad impression on TESLA investors).
It's even worse that several of the world's largest banks had pledged themselves as lenders (financiers) to enable Musk to overpay for Twitter. If Twitter does not become successfully profitable.... Musk will be in a LOT of debt. And so will those stupid banks.
I'm glad I don't bank at those large moronic banks (like Bank of America etc), where they recklessly throw their millions on risky ventures like this.
Musk's lenders prepare to hold $12.7 bln Twitter debt on books until 2023
Banks stand to lose at least $500m if they fund Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Facebook is very 2004. But people still use it LOL.
The answer will be it’s for those who need it.
Those who need to confirm who they are when they tweet.
Not for every average joe no one cares about.
My point being if the person is “notable”,important and/or making money using the platform then surely then can pay 20 bucks for it.It doesn't just mean celebrities. It just means notable. You've been in the news for some reason. Or you're a representative of a notable organization. Or you have credibility within an industry.
X Verification requirements - how to get the blue check
The blue Verified badge on X lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. Learn about which types of accounts become Verified.
And regular ordinary users don’t have to.
Yep. Notable people also have gazillions of followers. Which amounts to publicity, which often amounts to sponsors, book deals, paid speaking engagements, lucrative job offers, paid advertisements, etc. On Instagram alone there are tons of so-called "Influencers" that you and I have never heard of. But what matters is that they are "Notable" people who have tons of followers. And those Influencers make a ton of money -- from sponsors, from advertisers, from collaborations, from cultist fans that buy their tacky merch, etc.
If you are a famous author or even a corporation, you worry about someone spoofing your account. If you have the blue check, you don't need to worry about someone using your name to talk about marmot porn.
