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

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Post by minimaxir »

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…

A number of Twitter users have been correctly pointing out that anyone who pays $20/mo for a blue checkmark is more opening themselves to being shamefully dunked on than anything else.

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

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Post by itbeho »

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.

My first take was to agree with you. But after a bit of thought I'm not so sure. I've been talking to friends and neighbors, and there is a lot of anger building of late about [inflation, crime, government handling of Covid, media aligned with government] that makes me think more people will be supporting alternate voices because the entrenched power is so disliked. Like literally any alternate voice will stand out, even with stumbles and flaws.

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

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #23
throwaway5959 wrote: post #21

Might as well have just fired them. There’s no way a feature like that can get released in most companies on that timeline, even without the scale issues.

I mean... something can always get released. I would imagine few people who don't get fired on Nov 7th are going to be around in another two months anyway though, who wants to work under such treatment in a job market like this? (Unless you're hoping for some kind of vesting of something I guess?)

People who have drunk the musk Kool aid, so to speak.

It’s a dick move by it is also an excellent way to filter out employees who have any semblance of work life balance or don’t think that Musk shits diamonds.

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

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Post by superchroma »

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 is really a thing for personal and commercial brands. You don't need it, evidently. Considering it's intended to prevent impersonation, making it a paid feature isn't an awesome idea unless there still is a documentation verification step.

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

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Post by MBCook »

datalopers wrote: post #25

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Seems to me he did it to avoid what would come out in the lawsuit.

What was so bad he was desperate enough to take on a $44B boondoggle of a purchase (he’s a bad fit, it wasn’t worth near that) to keep off the official record.

What did he do??? What would be that bad?

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

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Post by jeanlucneptune »

insanitybit wrote: post #36
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 t…

Agree on the utility for corporations of having an "official" account to guard against impersonators. But if Twitter becomes a ghost town it probably won't even matter if you're verified or not.

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Post by Nicksil »

minimaxir wrote: post #41
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…

A number of Twitter users have been correctly pointing out that anyone who pays $20/mo for a blue checkmark is more opening themselves to being shamefully dunked on than anything else.

>A number of Twitter users have been correctly pointing out that anyone who pays $20/mo is more opening themselves to being dunked on than anything else.

That says a lot about those Twitter users.

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

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

datalopers wrote: post #25

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One the one hand, it seems like a bad deal because people do that for free all the time.

On the other hand, $44 billion is nothing to the extremely wealthy. Money stops having any real value well before you have a net worth in the billions.

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

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Post by mjmsmith »

"Elon Musk (and his consortium of much smaller investors) now owns Twitter. We need to take seriously the possibility that this will end up being one of the funniest things that’s ever happened."

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-twitter/

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