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Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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Re: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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"Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired."

Well I hope the meme that elon is some kind of benevolent and inspiring leader is truly dead and buried.

Re: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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"Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired." Well I hope the meme that elon is some kind of benevolent and inspiring leader is truly dead and buried.

There's negative employee morale after being acquired, and then there's this.

Re: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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Considering it can cost thousand of dollars or time, such as sending documents, to verify accounts, this is a good deal , assuming it actually confers a blue checkmark and consequent privileges

Why can’t this be automated with identification scanning software, which is highly commoditized at this point?

Re: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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post #5

Considering it can cost thousand of dollars or time, such as sending documents, to verify accounts, this is a good deal , assuming it actually confers a blue checkmark and consequent privileges

Why can’t this be automated with identification scanning software, which is highly commoditized at this point?

Esp given that crypto coin banks do this via photos of your ID, now; just to sign up with them. They are fussy about the ID being up to date, too.

Re: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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Software deadlines of a week or so? Elon really doesn't knows thing about software management. What a tool - have fun attracting some real pieces of work.

I'd like to see the missive and exactly what it says. Most journalists have to work at speed and are sloppy as hell, as we've already seen several times in this case. I don't doubt that he wants to instill some urgency. Getting a page up with the higher fee and the new requirements will happen faster than whatever the final authentification scheme is.

Re: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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Software deadlines of a week or so? Elon really doesn't knows thing about software management. What a tool - have fun attracting some real pieces of work.

I'd like to see the missive and exactly what it says. Most journalists have to work at speed and are sloppy as hell, as we've already seen several times in this case. I don't doubt that he wants to instill some urgency. Getting a page up with the higher fee and the new requirements will happen faster than whatever the final authentification scheme is.

Any level of "deadline or you're fired" is trash-level mgmt that will only end up filtering gordon's awful types.

Re: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can’t this be automated with identification scanning software, which is highly commoditized at this point?

Esp given that crypto coin banks do this via photos of your ID, now; just to sign up with them. They are fussy about the ID being up to date, too.

You may have stopped being you. How do they know if you are you if you haven’t renewed yourself?
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