You really should take a look at how much useless stupid stuff state and federal organizations pay for.
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Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts, Reports Suggest
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How? How can you still defend a guy who called someone a pedophile because he felt but/hurt?
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I don’t think so. Same problem as Facebook/Meta. No, it doesn’t make money but it provides a completely non critical platform for Mark Zuckerberg to publish his opinions without needing to actually have valid data to back them up. And influenceing people to think and vote certain ways can more than make up for the cost of a network that doesn’t make money in and of itself. Elon wants his own unfettered access, and do you think that other news media can afford to just ignore Twitter?
I know what I am talking about. Right now tons of smaller agencies, embassies, consulates… have the blue check. They aren’t going to pay for it.
I absolutely agree that it's also a bit of a class thing.
The fact that now they'll have to pay for that class privilege is absolutely delightful to me.
I know. Crazy to expect people you pay to do the work you expect of them.
It’s comments like yours that make me think we are doomed. You think everyone is an a$$ and you imagine that those who aren’t actually are. So you probably behave the same way.
The reality is that most people are nice and you are making it hard for the rest of us.
We lose money on every deal but we make that up on volume.
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Not at all. But those who do nothing but add tedious idol worship do not contribute to the discussion.
You'll notice that Steve Jobs didn't say anything even remotely like this immediately upon returning to Apple.
There's a reason for that - your best employees who have plenty of options to work elsewhere would be the first ones to leave, because few want to work for a tyrant that starts off by threatening his employees.
Steve was demanding of his people, but his employees knew he had their back. And as Steve was fond of saying, the best like working with the best.
Being hard on your employees needs to be earned. Study after study show that the trait that correlates most with a team's success is their emotional safety - that is, knowing that it's okay to make mistakes.
Leading by fear is the opposite of this.
that’s the point, he’s trying to get as many people to quit as possible to avoid paying severance and unemployment
Luckily we aren’t all psychos and some of us like to treat each other nicely.
So just because I don't use it, I shouldn't assume that a ton of other people don't either, but how many will want to spend $20 a month on this?
Yes, all those ads on Twitter were generating zero revenue. You really do need to get educated on the difference between revenue and profit. Hear the sucking sound of all the advertisers abandoning Twitter because of all the unchecked hate speech? Yeah, charging $20 for a few check marks from a decreasing audience will make up for it.
How is verification performed now? Is it actually reliable? Who else has control of the verified account?
The news basically became a Twitter screen reader years ago. If the verification process is actually thorough and worth it to them maybe this is a good move. Maybe people will stop taking Twitter seriously and we can move on from this horrible phase of human history.
The news basically became a Twitter screen reader years ago. If the verification process is actually thorough and worth it to them maybe this is a good move. Maybe people will stop taking Twitter seriously and we can move on from this horrible phase of human history.
It makes sense for Musk to charge $20/month for the blue check as one of his and many outside the company concerns were related to fake accounts. If you are using the platform as a form of business networking then $20/month for the verification is part of the expense. Most fake accounts will leave including a few that will protest the fee.
Why do people always dwell on the negative? It’s not like you are not permitted to use the platform. You honestly believe $240/year for a company is going to break them, if so then that company was heading downhill to begin with. Yes, I also feel introducing this change during inflation and possible recession will expedite the weeds of fake accounts.
Objectively speaking, Musk just paid 44 billions for a website. Yes, non-tangible things have made money for a while, but this ridiculous amount just doesn’t fit with the reality of how unimportant to the world that website actually is. If Twitter disappeared tomorrow, nothing would change, or maybe some things would change for a little better.
Musk knows it. He didn’t want to buy and was basically forced to. He wants the money, he has no higher humanistic idea, he is a psycho. He just wants the money, and he doesn’t care for his reputation or Twitter’s.
All of the professions mentioned cam afford it, people spend more on weekly discretions and Twitter can be seen as such while being a time waster for many.
The process is not some opaque mystery. The requirements are posted here. Yes, there has been some inconsistency at times but that happens in every human decision, especially when you outsource processes to poorly trained, low wage folks.
Government pays access to newspaper space. Government pays access to tv space. I don’t see why Twitter should be any different.