First of all, nobody should have ever considered a blue checkmark to mean anything special considering how many no-names have them. If you still think a blue checkmark means something after you can literally buy one, I have no idea what to tell you.
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Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts, Reports Suggest
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I deactivated both my Facebook and Twitter accounts years ago around the same time, what do I win?
Hmm. So people who don’t pay will be have A Green mark. That would be funny
ME? Oh, I'm well aware of how companies, technology, and the human mind works 😆 But thanks for lumping me in with the masses. Just because you don't know someone's name, that doesn't make them 'no-names'.
And you're right! Nobody should ever consider that checkbox to mean those accounts are real or legit, If only there was some way to prove those folks were real and Verified 🤔 Now go find all those "non tech savvy" folks in your life, and ask them all these same questions. You'll find a much different answer than asking on a Mac Tech Forum 🙄
Engineers don't decide which and when things go into production. That's why you have BA's, PM's and RM's. Not to mention a full blown testing team the code goes through.
As someone who visits quite a lot of countries and has seen the American population explode in a lot of them, I can assure you plenty of them did.
Pretty aggressive move and for sure something many checkmarks will think twice about before paying.
Sounds like he bought it only to wreck it. If true.
Sounds like he bought it only to wreck it. If true.
A quick look at the finances they lost a lot of money last quarter so income needs to come from somewhere...
All the media types and narcissists will pay, even through gritted teeth. Genius.
Stupid businessman? Who am I going to think knows how to run a business better? The guy who started with nothing (actually in debt) and became the world's wealthiest man. Or some random internet person? Hmm, tough choice here.
Dunno, could be, but it will at least become topic and be discussed in a meeting with Elon Musk.
He/Twitter will definitely make money off of this. My point in him being a "stupid businessman" is that he'd probably make more money if he charged $4.99 a month as opposed to four times that. Instead of relying on the fringe or elitist for revenue, he could rely on a lot more than those folks for a lot more money. For every verified user ($20) there's at least 50 more standard users that would easily pay $5 a month to get rid of ads and have that verified checkmark.
So, yeah.. He's out of touch AND doesn't give a damn.
can't wait to see apple car put musk and his junky tesla's into obscurity.
He may have done the math and on his calculations decided $20 was the number. And if he’s out of touch then twittter go bye-bye.
Yeah the world's wealthiest man is going to go into obscurity soon. Keep dreaming.
I know he is guilty of thinking wrong on some subjects, but I'm seeing comments like this and others calling him a "stupid businessman". I can't help but laugh at that kind of stuff. You can hate the guy (and likely not even know why), but at least try and be realistic.
If you think Musk "started with nothing", you're [sounds of getting banned from MacRumors intensify].
I'm not a big twitter user but aren't the people who want/need to be verified not normal users like you and me but celebrities or high profile people? They won't balk at $20
I'm a light twitter user, I have an account, but I don't ever post anything.
I think twitter had an opportunity to be something more then it was, if that makes sense. Now it seems the inmates are running the asylum. Since for me, I don't really use it, the impact is negligible, and I really don't care. I expect twitter to be more and more ludicrous
I do think charging 20 dollars is a novel approach because it only impacts those people who really do care about being verified.
I think twitter had an opportunity to be something more then it was, if that makes sense. Now it seems the inmates are running the asylum. Since for me, I don't really use it, the impact is negligible, and I really don't care. I expect twitter to be more and more ludicrous
I do think charging 20 dollars is a novel approach because it only impacts those people who really do care about being verified.
You'd think they are but there are thousands of no-name people that also have a blue checkmark.