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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 Gigachad »

LightHugger wrote: post #109
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The blue checkmark is in practice just a symbol of vanity. That you're a genuine somebody, worthy of extra verification. Absolutely. But if anyone who pays $20/month can get a blue checkmark, it is no longer the status symbol you describe and its appeal totally disappears.

Good? Why are there people who think it should be a status symbol, to by recognized by twitter staff of all people as "noteworthy?" It's ridiculous and more than a little pathetic that people considered it a valid status symbol to begin with, and it should be dismantled as such. It's not called a "status symbol and we like this person mark" it's called "verified".

If anything it has become the opposite. “Blue checkmarks” is almost a slur these days.

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Post by Gigachad »

reustle wrote: post #115
Hamcha wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it depends on existing verified pages (you get verified by.. having two other verified social network accounts). If you can pay to get one of those, that's half of the job done for 20$.

Telegram Premium does not at all depend on your other social profiles, it’s $5/mo. Maybe they have a separate verification feature? (Edit: yep https://telegram.org/verify )

Telegram premium adds a star to your name rather than a check mark. It only signals you paid for premium.

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Post by 6510 »

throwawaylinux wrote: post #105
kortex wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Even in a bloated, red-tape bureaucratic hellhole, that's maybe a few engineer-weeks at absolute most. Wire up a payment processor, plug into whatever api sets the blue checkmark, have some expiration logic, done.

> engineer-weeks The executive sponsor and their focus groups, product managers and their review committees, finance and their budgetary approvals, HR and their headcount approvals, the project managers and their technical working groups and sizing estimates, dev, UX, legal, test, deployment, DEI, customer advocacy, competitive analysis, etc all have to have representatives to develop a plan and sign off on it, meeti…

It seems to me the faces wont be there to carry the egg.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

yuppie_scum wrote: post #70
muglug wrote: post #54

Even with the hiring freezes across Silicon Valley, good engineers will right now be trying to leave Twitter in droves. The stress of all this will have an additive effect, and make a salary cut more bearable if they have to change jobs. Instagram has about 20,000 employees. Twitter has about 7,500. How many of those can it lose before advertisers start leaving in droves? At that point, whatever monetisation strategy…

The stress of people paying money to use your company’s product?

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

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Post by grappler » 

  > told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of
  > November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired
Why the heavy-handed cartoon villain boss thing though? Is this effectively another way to cut people?

Changing the subscription price is presumably technically doable on short notice. But merging it with expanded verification for any and all who want it? Is that a one-week sprint to develop, test, and put in production?

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Post by Nicksil »

muglug wrote: post #120
Nicksil wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Hiring new engineers while the CEO is busy boiling some of its engineers alive [...] But that's just your anecdote and has no actual affect on the time necessary to hire new software developers. And the time it takes to hire has always been there; it isn't anything novel and certainly isn't stopping anybody from applying/hiring.

I'm guessing you haven't worked at a big valley tech company. But this may be your chance!

>I'm guessing you haven't worked at a big valley tech company. But this may be your chance!

A "big valley tech" company? No. A big company? Yes. But you didn't explain why that mattered.

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Post by spoils19 »

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 can probably get one or two other HN'ers and ship this out in a few hours.

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Post by foogazi »

MBCook wrote: post #56
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

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How would you get verified as celebrity X ?

How can a cow get human ID ?

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

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Post by madmanweb »

I have a blue tick on Twitter but there is no way in hell I'm paying $20 per month for it. I live in India and $240 per year is a fair chunk of money for people in many parts of Asia. It costs more than my software subscriptions. Only rich celebs will keep it. I guess Musk just doesn't care about the lower income countries out there.
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