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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 onionisafruit »

Nomentatus wrote: post #8
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.

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.

This author uses passive voice and doesn’t say what their source is. The engineers “were told” that they would be fired if they missed the deadline. Who told them that? Who even were the engineers? How does the author know this?

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

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Post by snoopy_telex »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #18

> 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-pub…

My understanding is the outstanding grants are guaranteed at the buyout price and are converted directly to cash.

New grants/options/whatever are at the whims of the company.

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

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Post by senectus1 »

$20 a month... rofl I grouch about $5 a month for a static IP, not a chance on earth I, or anyone I know would pay $20 a month to twitter for anything they could provide. (and that $20 a month will be USD.. so it'll be like $28 a month for Australians)

not a chance.. if they billed me a few cents per tweet maybe (if they threw in no adverts).

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

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Post by fourseventy »

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.

Considering he built and sold software companies for hundreds of millions of dollars I would guess he knows quite a bit more about it than you.

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

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Post by the_cat_kittles »

Nomentatus wrote: post #13
whateveracct wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

it seems like you are expending a lot of effort looking for reasons he isnt just basically a bad / clueless boss in this case. its much more likely he is just blowing it.

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Post by insanitybit »

jeanlucneptune wrote: post #24

I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets. I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no benefit in being verified and I doubt being verified would have/will change my experience as a user. If they verified me for FREE I wouldn't care. $20/month to be verified on a site controlled by a maniac in the…

Same here. 2.5k followers, probably tweet 4x per day. I do not give a shit about being verified. I have never so much as investigated what it would take to get verified. If I had >1M followers I suspect that I would also not give a shit.

Maybe if I were a brand? But... idk. I guess our company account could get verified, not sure I'd bother.

For very large companies it seems like it's in Twitter's interest to have them verified, less so for the company. ex: fake "Coinbase" accounts are all over Twitter telling you to send them a dm to reset their account or whatever, it's in Twitter's interest to reduce that content on their platform. Making it harder to differentiate "real Coinbase" vs "fake Coinbase" seems like it will only increase their problems.

Similarly, everything I have seen from Musk so far has made me consider alternatives. In fact I wonder if the time for Twitter has passed for me. It was excellent for growing my career initially but at this point I'm more likely to network elsewhere, more likely to ask for tech help elsewhere, etc.

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Post by jeanlucneptune »

ClayM wrote: post #30
jeanlucneptune wrote: post #24

I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets. I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no benefit in being verified and I doubt being verified would have/will change my experience as a user. If they verified me for FREE I wouldn't care. $20/month to be verified on a site controlled by a maniac in the…

same -i'm an extremely heavy user, now i'm investigating what alternatives are out there

Jack's launching Bluesky soon, which is apparently just repurposed Twitter stack.

Tribel looks like another option that many people have been talking about.

Lately, I've been spending more time on Reddit.

Another option is to replacement Twitter with ... nothing.

Food for thought.

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Post by MBCook »

jeanlucneptune wrote: post #24

I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets. I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no benefit in being verified and I doubt being verified would have/will change my experience as a user. If they verified me for FREE I wouldn't care. $20/month to be verified on a site controlled by a maniac in the…

Verification isn’t/wasn’t (supposed to be) about how often you used the platform.

It was so journalists and celebrities and such could be identified and you could tell if you were intersecting with the genuine article or a fake account impersonating them.

90 days to sign up before people lose their check mark. So 90 days until the clones come out.

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the MASSIVE amount of debt Twitter is now in and desperately needing money. Or getting back at all the journalists (a huge chunk of verified users) who Musk seems to hate.

3 days. It took 3 days to make a colossally stupid official policy change.

Also? Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it? That’s horribly cruel.

Oh right. Musk.

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Post by UncleMeat »

drc37 wrote: post #22
superchroma wrote: post #2

"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.

Have you ever thought for a second that you can’t trust the media? Or trust the word of a disgruntled employee who’s just trying to give a black eye to the employer who is about to let him/her go? It pretty funny watching the posts coming across this and other platforms thinking the world is ending because Elon comes out and says he’s going to make twitter balanced instead blatantly left leaning.

That balance is going great given Elon's recent content on Twitter /s.

"Blatantly left leaning" is a joke. My trans friends wouldn't receive constant drive by harassment if that were the case.

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Post by conanbatt »

jeanlucneptune wrote: post #24

I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets. I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no benefit in being verified and I doubt being verified would have/will change my experience as a user. If they verified me for FREE I wouldn't care. $20/month to be verified on a site controlled by a maniac in the…

It would still be free for you. What's the conflict?
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