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Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by s1artibartfast »

mecha_ghidorah wrote: post #611
robryan wrote: post #467

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Sells them on the mission. Things like a colony on Mars and full self driving are pretty compelling goals for some people.

Yeah but I feel like "work on twitter" is way less of a .... shall we say noble/socially fulfilling job. I'd value working on sending people to mars (not to live, just to do a walk on it), it'd make me part of something historic. One day people would write books and make documentaries about the work done to make it happen, and even if I weren't featured for the entire rest of my life if I could tell people "I worked…

I'm sure Elon will have a mission statement that will appeal to some people.

Imagine a new form of news and communication that solves all of our social woes, allows people to be informed, and have constructive discourse.

That would be world changing.

I'm not saying Twitter could ever be that. But maybe someone else could be convinced it is possible.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #668
dshpala wrote: post #651

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I'll take those silly doors any day over some designed-by-committe boring car. Like stupid bean-shaped electric Mercedes for example.

Wait till it freezes in winter. Those doors are great, till they’re covered in a small layer of ice. The doors are an interesting example since they always seemed strictly worse than the traditional design, unlike the rest of the car.

I live in cold Switzerland and a family in my house with 3 little children has one of them. The car is always parked outside. They seem really happy with it and this was never mentioned as an issue.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by Aleksdev »

To be honest I think Twitter is better without any check marks. I remember reading somewhere that check marks were awarded to some user based on their connections to certain employees at Twitter.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

rconti wrote: post #633
pie420 wrote: post #568

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The model X is also probably one of the most profitable and iconic cars in the modern era.

I'm sure it's actually the least successful vehicle Tesla sells.

Its comparable in sales to the Model S I think. Maybe even outsells it in some places. And sells more then many other cars in that category.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

roflyear wrote: post #645
shitloadofbooks wrote: post #618

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Do you have any evidence for "most profitable" at all? Looks-wise, it's basically indistinguishable from a Model 3 (which are everywhere), so hardly iconic in any way.

It is pulled out of his butt, the F150 sells 3/4 of a million a year (just the f150!) and makes on the low end a gross profit of $10k per sold. The model x sold about 7.5k cars in 2021, way down from the 20-30k it was selling each year. OK let's say it sold $30k, and Tesla made a profit of $100k (more than the car sells for) for each car. That's still less than 50% of the F150 yearly profit. LOL.

Comparing it to the F150 is idiotic. That's the most sold car in the US and in a different segment.

Compare it to other comparable cars in the same segment and it looks pretty damn good.

Lower volume high margin cars are really worth it for companies and Ford wishes it had an EV in that classed that sold have as well. The Model X sells in numbers not unlike Mach E while having double the price.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by CivBase »

jmyeet wrote: post #656
CivBase wrote: post #650

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> they should pay me ...why? As someone who doesn't use Twitter, remarks like this have left me very confused. Clearly these people found Twitter valuable before. Does not having the checkmark make it less valuable? Is there an alternative service that provides similar value? The blue checkmark is a service. Now they want money to continue that service. If you don't want it, don't pay for it. Leaving over concerns ab…

> ...why? Because the content on Twitter is generated by a relatively small number of users. A lot never tweet, quote tweet or retweet but it goes beyond that number once you weight it by audience. A small number of people have a large amount of reach and thus are responsible for a good chunk of the content. That content is why the users are on Twitter and it is those users who are advertised to that pay for Twitter…

Maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of what compels people to use Twitter. I thought the few people in question use Twitter as a convenient tool to communicate with wide audiences (i.e. marketing) and the rest are mostly especially dedicated followers who want to be marketed to. Are there actually people who primarily use Twitter for "content"? Are the blue checkmark people (i.e. celebrities) even the ones generating that content?

The content for billboards is also "generated by a relatively small number of users", but those users still have to pay to use them. I've always seen Twitter as a personal billboard, and a checkmark as a coveted signal booster. But maybe that's wrong?

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by cdash »

ssully wrote: post #93
linuxftw wrote: post #57

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Twitter offers him value, or he wouldn't be on it. Personally, I think they could charge $50/mo and most blue checks would pay it. I think Elon has the right idea, you gotta dip their toes in the water, then jack up the price later.

Of course it offers him value, but Stephen King being on the platform is more valuable to Twitter than it is for King.

It really isn't. These people are stuck.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

CydeWeys wrote: post #536
UncleMeat wrote: post #159

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I don't quite think it is luck - but a weird second thing. Musk has a reality distortion field. I think he is a bloviating jerk but I know a lot of really really smart and dedicated engineers in software and in more traditional fields like mech-e and aerospace who would rather work for Musk than any other person and are willing to take pay cuts to work for him. This means he really can surround himself with very skil…

The distortion field has been significantly fading over the past couple years. And it might be gone entirely soon enough depending on how poorly the Twitter acquisition turns out to be.

Tesla is making record profits right now and SpaceX is achieving things no other space company has come close to. Twitter is basically a vanity project.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by tsol »

tyingq wrote: post #666
cvwright wrote: post #653

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He's quite active. https://stephenking.com/works/all/ then sort newest to oldest.

Except of the social networks I browse, stephenking.com is not one of them. So really no I wouldn't hear of him. I'm sure his die hard fans will though.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by rideontime »

bdougherty wrote: post #399
rideontime wrote: post #320

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How does adding a new subscription feature and changing verification checkmarks to "secondary tags" level the playing field? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587527711228149765

Because previously you had to be blessed to get a bluecheck, now you just have to pay. Way more people have the means to pay than were blessed.

But the "blessed" keep their unique status with the "secondary tag." Everybody knows that's the checkmark.
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