wccftech Twitter Could Start Charging $20 a Month for Verification

[bonami2]

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Just a few days after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees the first ultimatum, and a rather strange one at that. Musk wants to introduce a new 'feature' that simply means paid verification and if that feature is not introduced, the team working on it can be fired.

The directive here is to change Twitter Blue, the optional $4.99 paid subscription into a more extensive offering that also has a verifying option for users. According to people familiar with this situation and the internal correspondence seen by The Verge, Twitter could start charging $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe to Twitter Blue or lose their blue checkmark.

 

 

 

Twitter Could Start Charging $20 a Month for Verification

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Just a few days after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees the first ultimatum, and a rather strange one at that. Musk wants to introduce a new 'feature' that simply means paid verification...

 

[pio]

Might see a few less blue checkmarks.  Cool.  I don't support greedy practices, but I don't support all the stupid blue checkmarks thinking they're the only voices because of that checkmark either.  This one's kind of hard to comment on, because I dislike both. -_-  

[bonami2]

19 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

Might see a few less blue checkmarks.  Cool.  I don't support greedy practices, but I don't support all the stupid blue checkmarks thinking they're the only voices because of that checkmark either.  This one's kind of hard to comment on, because I dislike both. -_-  

I don't really like twitter anyways. I mean i think it a good move. Making it more professional.

[schuck6566]

6 hours ago, bonami2 said:

I don't really like twitter anyways. I mean i think it a good move. Making it more professional.

I kinda agree with the more "professional" point, but $5 to $20 is a bit of a hike for the small time (as in single person)business clients.

[UltraMega]

I seriously doubt Musk will be able to improve twitter in any meaningful way. You can't be pro disinformation information and have the goal of getting rid of bots because bots and disinformation go hand in hand. It feels like he's going to turn Twitter into something like truth social. 

[UltraMega]

Musk has owned Twitter under a week and big names are already leaving the platform, complaining about a hate surge, and calling for tighter regulation

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Elon Musk already faces pushback from celebrities, lawmakers, and advertisers worried about Twitter’s changes.

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Referring to the man who attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband this week, she said, “He was posting antisemitic tropes, he was showing memes that showed violence and all of this election-denying, pro-Trump, MAGA-crowd rhetoric. That’s what we’re dealing with here…I just don’t think people should be making money off of passing on this stuff that’s a bunch of lies.”

 

Noting that TV networks have to screen commercials for false information before they air, she said companies like Twitter do not face similar requirements. 

 

”We have to change the requirements on these companies,” she said. “They’re making money off of us. They’re making money off of this violence.”

 

Meanwhile NBA star LeBron James tweeted yesterday that the surge in N-word use on Twitter since Musk’s takeover was “scary AF,” and added that he hoped Musk “and his people take this very seriously.”

 

That followed the Network Contagion Research Institute—a social media research firm—reporting that use on the N-word spiked 500% on Twitter in the 12 hours after Musk took control. 

 

Antisemitic memes also jumped, and so did the word “plandemic”—shorthand for a conspiracy theory in which elites are using the pandemic to gain power and profit off vaccines—according to Dataminr, which also analyzes social media, Bloomberg reported.

 

 

 

[bonami2]

2 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Musk has owned Twitter under a week and big names are already leaving the platform, complaining about a hate surge, and calling for tighter regulation

WWW.MSN.COM

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Elon Musk already faces pushback from celebrities, lawmakers, and advertisers worried about Twitter’s changes.

 

 

I watched plandemic it pretty cool. Am all for freedom that why am often on reddit now.

[UltraMega]

40 minutes ago, bonami2 said:

I watched plandemic it pretty cool. Am all for freedom that why am often on reddit now.

Plandemic is a propaganda misinformation film series. 

Plandemic - Wikipedia

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The last thing the world needs more of right now is misinformation. I really have no words for anyone who thinks Twitter, or the internet in general, needs to be making it easier for racism and misinformation to spread. The fact that those things have already jumped up so sharply on Twitter with Musk in control can only be a bad thing, and anyone who is in favor of it is frankly a disgusting and ignorant person. 

Edited October 31, 2022 by UltraMega

[UltraMega]

Maybe I'm partly guilty of mentioning the more political side of this myself, but I think this thread is going to devolve into bed territory from here, therefore I am going to lock it.

Edited October 31, 2022 by UltraMega