This is what a Twitter verified account badge will cost you

[RedViking]

I'm not so sure about that.

If a spam farm pays $8 a month for all their accounts, what then?

If a fake celebrity account holder pays for their account and makes false claims with the blue check, what then?

It seems flawed from the onset, and I think that's what the entire userbase is worried about.

Spam farm will never pay $8 for all their accounts.

 

[RedViking]

Shame man, poor old Trev trying to get some mileage out of this...


Noah then offered a hilariously sardonic alternative if the goal is to make money: charge white people to say “nigga.”

Trevor Noah Criticizes Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Check Subscription Plan, Offers Sad but Hilarious Alternative

The talk show host addressed the topic during Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show.

www.theroot.com

Trevor is just trying to still be relevant. He has become the Nicholas Cage of the comedian industry.

 

[Dave]

Well currently tweets are drowned out by trolls, bots and other crap.

Twitter needs this.

There'll just be more verified bots.

Consider this, how many bots can be bought for this kind of cash?

Outside groups spent a midterm-record of $1.3 billion on 2022 federal elections. The election is still 25 days away. - OpenSecrets News

Outside groups have spent over $1.3 billion on 2022 federal midterm elections, surpassing the nominal – not adjusted for inflation – 2018 midterm election record.

www.opensecrets.org

 

[PaulMurkin]

Except that goes directly against Elon's supposed goal of creating a "town hall" for the greater good of humanity.
It doesn't matter if 10,000 blue ticks are responding, if even 100 non-blue-tick messages get drowned out. And it doesn't matter if you consider those 100 users to be riff-raff or cheapskates and therefore unworthy of having their voices heard.

A town hall is meant to a place where everyone can voice their opinions and everyone else can contribute to the discussion. Prioritising certain voices over others is contradictory to that idea. Hence, Elon's idea of a "town hall" promoting "free speech" can only work if everyone on the platform pays (which will never happen, not because people are cheapskates but because many people have more important things to do with their minimum-wage salaries), or the voices of the people who are paying aren't favoured in any way, otherwise everyone on the platform isn't on equal footing, and there is no "town hall" in effect.

Of course its his $44billion and his platform now, so he can do whatever he likes with it and people are free to leave if they don't like his decisions... but he shouldn't be deluded into thinking that he's creating a town hall in that case.

You can argue that the riff-raff who can't afford $8 a month on a twitter account don't deserve to be leeching of the platform for free, and that's also a valid viewpoint, but then you also shouldn't delude yourself that Elon is creating some sort of free speech town hall, because he's not. He's then created a service for people who can afford it, not for the greater good of humanity.

How about we see what happens. It's early days still

 

[RedViking]

It's peculiar to me that Twitter users have not yet discovered this amazing feature called block and/or delete.

Of course, but when there are 1000's of them it is a pain.

I avoid twitter besides reading the sniplets MyBB professors love to post as evidence for their wiki facts, when you click on those links and expect a conversation or something all you get is a bunch of crap. The real conversations gets drowned out.

 

[sdrawk]

Spam farm will never pay $8 for all their accounts.

A state-sponsored entity might

 

[RedViking]

A state-sponsored entity might

You and @Dave have a point.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Surprised they have not claimed twitter as a proudly South African company yet

 

[RedViking]

Surprised they have not claimed twitter as a proudly South African company yet

African American.

 

[sdrawk]

How Twitter handles all this change is just one of those things that we will find out in time. My guess is Twitter will decline because users are fickle and don't like drastic change. They might flock to similar alternatives and leave His Muskness holding the $44bln bag.

Then again, Twitter has been around a long time and those that use it a lot might just weather it out.

 

[Nerfherder]

Spam farm will never pay $8 for all their accounts.

Never say never.

If there is a way for that bot to make its money back then they will do it.

Like if $800 worth of bots will result in $10k worth of advertising revenue PM, then its a viable option.

 

[s0lar]

Never say never.

If there is a way for that bot to make its money back then they will do it.

Like if $800 worth of bots will result in $10k worth of advertising revenue PM, then its a viable option.

At $8 there will be a lot less EFF cruft in the local search results.

The mentality as you know as everything including twitter, like land must be free!

 

[BBSA]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1588174959817658368

 

[rvZA]

I think Elon has a plan.

I will not be surprised if Elon scraps this payment in due course. I suspect he will be donating all the payments received to the Republican party for their election campaign in an attempt to protect America from the Democratic Communists in the US.

 

[Dave]

I think Elon has a plan.

I will not be surprised if Elon scraps this payment in due course. I suspect he will be donating all the payments received to the Republican party for their election campaign in an attempt to protect America from the Democratic Communists in the US.

Are you off your meds again?

 

[Willie Trombone]

I'm also just commenting on the headline. He paid $44 billion for Twitter and never mind that initial outlay, he's fscking with a tried and tested formula hoping it will work and not run at a loss. So I'm just asking where does 'smart man' come into it?

Tried and tested?
Twitter has been going down the toilets steadily for a little while now.

 

[Willie Trombone]

It maskes absolute sense. Cover the admin of verifying users.

 

[rvZA]

Tried and tested?
Twitter has been going down the toilets steadily for a little while now.

Normally what happens when you control what people can speak, who can speak, what news people can see and what news people can't see and also rigging an American election.... naturally it will go down the tube.

 

[FiestaST]

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587658058381000706