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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.
Is this really a priority for the lower income countries out there?
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 Twitte…
Can you point me to the official policy?
Because last I checked, official policy wasn’t determined by media outlets quoting anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation, who may or may not have their own axes to grind.
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>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.
The verification process doesn't change, you just need to pay for it.
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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.
I disagree on your second point: $44B is a huge amount of money, even to Musk. If Twitter goes down, it likely drags down Tesla (or at least Musk's position as CEO) and his other companies as well.
$44 billion is only like 25%. Even if he just lit the $44 billion on fire he would still be in like the top 100 richest humans to ever live.
> 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…
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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.
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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…
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It would still be free for you. What's the conflict?
My belief is that under Musk being verified will have a significant impact on your experience as a user. In other words, I think we're heading to a regime where you get verified or you're forced off. No Twitter for free users.
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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.
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.