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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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Post by ALittleLight »

cdolan wrote: post #5
paulpauper wrote: post #3

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?

In my opinion it's dangerous to make verification too easy. Right now verification means, approximately, "this is somebody". Make verification too easy and it becomes "this person pays for Twitter" which is probably the opposite of what you want. I would say - keep verification as exclusive as it is, or slightly less, and charge for it is optimal.

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Post by Nomentatus »

whateveracct wrote: post #9
Nomentatus wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But we know Elon plans to slim staff down a lot; that this is a true change in management. Given that, it's not too surprising to see him draw some lines with ugly consequences on the wrong side of them since he's already said, in effect, that he doesn't need most of these engineers for the product he's planning.

Twitter is not a healthy product or work culture from what I can gather; and large changes in personnel, or the demise of companies, are the only ways we know to genuinely change lousy cultures at companies. Just sending a memo doesn't do it. The economy as a whole is harsh; not always as sudden, but often still more harsh. That's because killing companies is the only reliable way we have of changing company culture. It's capitalism's secret sauce.

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Post by vadym909 »

Unrelated- but I think Elon is going the way of Trump and Kanye to being cancelled or his businesses being doomed. All the goodwill he had as the underdog at Tesla, he's throwing away with his "I'm better than you, I'm here to save you, Nothing I say will hurt me cos I'm invincible and people love me" complex.

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Post by Nomentatus »

j33zusjuice wrote: post #10
Nomentatus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I don't know whether they keep checking. I signed up then backed out wanting to let enough time pass to judge which such companies were legit legit. I'm pretty sure they insisted on two factor identification.

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Post by edmcnulty101 »

vadym909 wrote: post #14

Unrelated- but I think Elon is going the way of Trump and Kanye to being cancelled or his businesses being doomed. All the goodwill he had as the underdog at Tesla, he's throwing away with his "I'm better than you, I'm here to save you, Nothing I say will hurt me cos I'm invincible and people love me" complex.

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Post by znkynz »

whateveracct wrote: post #6

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.

This style of management of software/product teams fills me full of confidence on using autopilot.

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Post by jrochkind1 »

> Now employees are fearing that layoffs will begin before November 1st, when a significant percentage of them are set to receive stock grants paid out in cash at $54.20 a share. Shortly after this story was published, Musk tweeted “This is false” in response to a tweet featuring another story claiming that the layoffs would happen before that date.

Side question, but real question -- how do stock grants in a non-publicly traded company work, who can you sell them to how to turn them into monetary value?

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Post by vrc »

znkynz wrote: post #17
whateveracct wrote: post #6

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.

This style of management of software/product teams fills me full of confidence on using autopilot.

Inverted, being an owner/user of autopilot makes me confident in the outcome of this new software endeavor.
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