Twitter to launch paid-for verified accounts

[Fulcrum29]

Interesting, yes, Musk, why, because people have become accustomed to use Twitter as is,

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586923535095693313

the question, say, what are the other options to monetise Twitter and still give tweeps their tick cred? The advertising landscape on Twitter may become interesting, indeed.

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Twatters got dosh, yoh

 

[adrianx]

Stephen King is one of the biggest sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome there is.

 

[am-user]

Blue check for subscriber / verified
Humanoid icon for verified id
Robot icon for suspected / confirmed bot account
Bridge icon for trolls

What else?

 

[Fulcrum29]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587498907336118274

Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.

 

[Spizz]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587360135038607360

 

[Fulcrum29]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587360135038607360

I listened to Binance's CZ speak today on them investing into Twitter to promote Web 3.0 and the blockchain, and he said what Musk is doing now is throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks with the community. Musk did that, he bartered with the Tweeps today and settled on $8 p/m. How people have a problem with this I don't know. There is a compromise, ticked Tweeps will still be served with ads, though limited.

 

[gregmcc]

$20....no wait $8. This is hilarious. No one is going to pay you Elon for your BS.

 

[Spizz]

I listened to Binance's CZ speak today on them investing into Twitter to promote Web 3.0 and the blockchain, and he said what Musk is doing now is throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks with the community. Musk did that, he bartered with the Tweeps today and settled on $8 p/m. How people have a problem with this I don't know. There is a compromise, ticked Tweeps will still be served with ads, though limited.

I'd have said it suits Twitter more for people like Steven King to have a verified account than it would if it was the other way round. Sure there will be lots of people who want to buy that 'status', but buying it just devalues the tick so it would be counter productive.

Twitter should count themselves as fortunate to have these huge celebrities providing free content to their platform and attracting billions of users and views. Charging them is just ridiculous and Badiels point is bang on imo.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

So this is the twitter version of youtube premium.

 

[Fulcrum29]

$20....no wait $8. This is hilarious. No one is going to pay you Elon for your BS.

$8 is the US price, the pricing will be regionally proportionate to purchase power parity.

 

[PaulMurkin]

Created an account on Twatter today... no posts.
Using the account to keep track of changes, or improvements.
At the moment, its not impressing me much.
They didn't like my avatar image, and my username was changed after the fact... but OK

 

[Fulcrum29]

I'd have said it suits Twitter more for people like Steven King to have a verified account than it would if it was the other way round. Sure there will be lots of people who want to buy that 'status', but buying it just devalues the tick so it would be counter productive.

Twitter should count themselves as fortunate to have these huge celebrities providing free content to their platform and attracting billions of users and views. Charging them is just ridiculous and Badiels point is bang on imo.

Musk and co. are more intent on empowering advertisers, publishers, and content creators, than 'celebrities'. He isn't stopping Stephen King to have a voice.

The tick is to commercialise the business now. Musk listed how the $8 p/m will help Twitter and its users,

- Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam
- Ability to post long video & audio
- Half as many ads

And paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with us

This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators

all I see is him wanting to enable the community.

 

[Harmonic]

I'd have said it suits Twitter more for people like Steven King to have a verified account than it would if it was the other way round. Sure there will be lots of people who want to buy that 'status', but buying it just devalues the tick so it would be counter productive.

Twitter should count themselves as fortunate to have these huge celebrities providing free content to their platform and attracting billions of users and views. Charging them is just ridiculous and Badiels point is bang on imo.

Meh. As much as twitter should be "grateful" for celebrities providing free content, "Celebrities" are only "celebrities" so long as they connect with their audience. Seems like a fair trade to me. Frankly, it's just the cost of doing business

 

[Flanders]

We can only be so lucky.

I've enjoyed his books but the stuff I've seen him put out on twitter makes him come across as a raging tosser.

Maybe he's tied to a bed somewhere, writhing in pain with two broken legs, weakly pleading for the blue-haired psycho looming over him and tweeting on his account to stop fscking up his street cred.

 

[Pegasus]

$20....no wait $8. This is hilarious. No one is going to pay you Elon for your BS.

Why not numnuts?

 

[Fulcrum29]

I've enjoyed his books but the stuff I've seen him put out on twitter makes him come across as a raging tosser.

Maybe he's tied to a bed somewhere, writhing in pain with two broken legs, weakly pleading for the blue-haired psycho looming over him and tweeting on his account to stop fscking up his street cred.

Yeah, I realised that too now,

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587187630118150145

Anyhow, OT.

 

[Harmonic]

Yeah, I realised that too now,

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587187630118150145

Anyhow, OT.

F*** this guy

 

[Spizz]

Musk and co. are more intent on empowering advertisers, publishers, and content creators, than 'celebrities'. He isn't stopping Stephen King to have a voice.

The tick is to commercialise the business now. Musk listed how the $8 p/m will help Twitter and its users,



all I see is him wanting to enable the community.

Fair enough. good luck to him. It's not something that affects or would ever affect me, but just to say that Twitter has a tried and tested format and I wouldn't be surprised if he breaks Twitter for good.

 

[nivek]

Elon should introduce a gold check mark at $2000 for all the elitist douchebag millionaires that are whinging about spending $20

The blue check mark can be for all the other unclean middle class plebs that just want to be authenticated