Celebrities like Kim Kardashian get like $250000 to mention a brand in a tweet. They should absolutely be willing to pay $8/month. I never thought that I was going to say that but the problem is there aren’t millions of Kim Kardashians.
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I am getting paid by tiktok. Just noticed this in my PayPal.
Come on Elon I used tiktok way less than twitter. Surely you been violating my privacy too.
Their thought is that these people paying will all be properly verified and tied to a real person.
My response to that is lol.
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That is one weird descriptor. They pay you for uploads under this weird title or just using your viewing data?
Yeah, I think this is the real issue. There is obviously some exising demand from celebrities, journalists and a % of regular people to have a “verified” identity in cyberspace. They may have brands to protect, think it’s cool to own their name, or whatever. It’s not unreasonable for Twitter to try to monetize that demand in some way. It is also nice, from the perspective of a random twitter user to be able to know if @BBC is actually the British Broadcasting Corporation or @mySenator is actually your Senator [or at least their Comms people]. The question is, will the demand for $ be so great that Twitter does away with the “verification” aspect and just decides to effectively sell a blue check to anyone who pays for it?
I think I know where it is eventually headed…
Secretly GOATed pvn poast here.
Elon has tried the classic finance ruse but he’s made a simple mistake. Everyone knows you find a medium sized profitable business built off the back of a quality product and a loyal fanbase, you buy it with debt that you then saddle it with and keep making the product shittier and shittier and milking the loyalists, pay your self huge dividends for as long as possible then when all the goodwill has been sucked dry go bankrupt. Thanks. GG. Elon is trying this with a huge company that is already shitty, never made any money, and everyone already hates.
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A billion-dollar public bailout?
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Sounds pretty elite. He must have genius level IQ.
That’s the interesting part - do current blue checks keep theirs? If they don’t they’re going to pay that 8$
Holding the blue checks hostage would be a pretty elite troll, I hope that’s the plan
“Died badly” is just 🧑🍳:kiss:
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i dont understand why he doesn’t think bot farms will pay for accounts and ruin the experience? or does he just think money is money? like another poster and i mentioned this is already similar to how Blizzard handles bot accounts in their games… the bots PAY subscription prices, so why would blizzard prevent them?.. allowing bots to access named accounts or better impersonate named accounts will likely make them more prevalent rather than less…
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No it was a class action settlement for using my data in an untoward way.
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https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/1587462729266257923?s=20&t=zXyKeyOc7JcuDjAfXizWVw
(former Twitter COO)
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there are elon’s halloween pictures out, so this plotline is just directly lifted from the last dumb season of succession
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I’m a light twitter user (scroll through it 1x/day for 15 minutes) to see some political takes, polls, and links to articles. “Bots and scams” are not any kind of factor in my user experience.
I assume for Twitter content creators they probably are a factor. It sounds like his plan is to make free Twitter suck and get you to pay $8 to get back to the experience you are used to. But how many people are realistically going to pay up for that? A few 100k?