Spammers and bots and scammers will happily pay $20 a month to be authenticated.
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Still not enough, but solid couch change.
I would guess it’s a big hit for rando journopundits with 200-1 mill followers to jump ship, but just like, twitter-like platform for journalists and good moderation, I’d pay something for that (probably).
Lol at people thinking musk won’t just be selling blue check marks, not carefully vetting them. The reality is one of the best ways to get verified on any social media when you are a non huge celebrity is to know someone that works there or a friend of a friend.
Can’t wait until employees get commissions for verifying people.
I think the idea is explicitly that all they’ll do is verify identity, but anyone can get a blue check. He’s basically destroying the meaning of the blue check.
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That is my understanding too. Send us a copy of your license and your credit card information. Having to have any sort of notoriety will not matter.
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1586903202674401281?t=AjApORoin8ktI2AFNXz55w&s=19
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https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1586911302206849027?t=PCbpIbComy4Fsx3MUetKJQ&s=19
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Kara Swisher start a twitter competitor then. Call it Swisher, we can swish at each other.
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This is turning the blue check into “I am dumb enough to pay $20/month for vanity flair”, I would be surprised if most people took him up on it. It’s also just going to make the site less usable because you constantly have to check whether people are real or not.
I’m tempted to pull a list of blue-checks from Twitter (I assume there’s some way to do this) and write a browser extension which reinstates them when they’re gone.
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seems that a lot of publicly traded ceos would spill a lot of cash to do what elon did on twitter with impunity
Psychological safety has been a big thing in the industry for the last…I’ll say 3-4 years? And rightfully so.
Can’t think of a better way to get all your UX, product, engineers etc to hate you.
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Nate is not the worst person you know, he’s really smart at a few things and makes the common mistake of venturing too far out of his field and says contrarian things that are incorrect occasionally
They might have to open up Verified to gen pop. Then we’re going to have bot accounts that people get Verified to provide some legitimacy. Twitter will ignore the obvious bot accounts because they are getting paid. Blizzard does this with bots in video games.
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feels like it will be like domain names, where people try to snipe names that expire or are close to other names for confusion. i see “donaldtrump, therealDonaldTrump, realDonaldTrump, therea|DonaldTrump…” all verified in the future. which is a win for twitter i guess.
seems like you instantly devalue the thing you are trying to sell to the point that it is worthless… but what do i know, im not a “genius billionaire business leader…” but yeah… World of Warcraft is the perfect example, everyone hates the bots but blizzard wont do anything about them because the bots are better customers.
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