The difference is TY and TT are content sites. Twitter is basically a messageboard. It's a communications platform. It's a lot closer to facebook or even CF.net than it is to those others. Both celebrities and cloutchasers/keyboard warriors will pay a fee to be Twitter verified/blue/whatever. I'm not a Musk fanboy, but I think this is a great plan. Charge a fee to the people who get (or want) the most out of your site and in doing so leverage the two things of value you have, population and that stupid arbitrary blue checkmark.
$8 a month is just another subscription But woke people are crying like it would stop their Disney plus subscription so they can’t watch she hulk @ROXRAN
I think there is a real potential to encroach upon linkedin. One of twitters biggest flaws is the lack of verification for the average user. View it like this: Perception and reality - Twitter is a message board/microblog Perception of Tesla - EV MFG Reality of Tesla - Aggressive AI ambition, battery mfg, commodities miner, work bots, ect ... Perception of SpaceX - Rocket company Reality of SpaceX - Reusable rocketry, deployment of its own satellite constellation and mfg of own antenna for its satellite constellation, mars ambition, ect .. We knows these companies have a ways to go before it reaches its ambitions, but the point stands we should expect Twitter to expand into something much more massive than a message board. Additionally social media has reached a very high saturation point. Facebook is the next Yahoo and there is a Google being built. Google became the defacto portal of the internet and Musk is envisioning X.com to do the same.
Not sure why this is a D&d topic but the answer is yes, I would pay for better service if I used the platform for business.
Right if I'm trying to sell a product /politics movement getting high placement could help. It will likely devolve into all top comments shilling xyz. It will create paid bot traffic.. the guys in Saudi supporting bone saw will be out in droves.
Based on how often so hear conservatives use the term “woke”, you would think there were 200,000,000 of them in the USA. I don’t know what “woke” people think about Twitter, but I can say the overwhelming vast majority of people I know don’t give a damn about Twitter, their business practices or what the LGBTQ+_£~ people think of just about anything.
I don't get why Elon drives leftists so insane. He not worthy of the attention they give him. Just like with Trump, the left seems to love taking part in the creation of villains as much as they love piling on them.
What if it included Pr0n though? . An internal email obtained by The Post on Tuesday showed that the company is aiming to launch a paid-video feature, which could be used to monetize adult content, within one to two weeks, despite an internal assessment that it poses a high liability risk.
Problem is that Saudi Arabia or MAGA Jimbo or anyone can then buy tons of blue checkmarks. I don't use Twitter directly i just see reposts, but the blue check is a valuable sorting function, even if it's arbitrary at the margins as to who gets it If its just "some entity that has $8" then seems like it kind of defeats the point. Either way, i don't think it solves the real problem for Twitter now, which has the debt of a $44 billion company and the revenue of a $10b one.
Other than how it affects Tesla's stock price I don't care that much about Musk but Trump was the President of the US, people stormed the US Capitol on his behalf, he still wields an outsized influence on one of the major political parties, plus he might be holding US government secrets at his resorts. Trump isn't just some loud mouth but actually could and has done a lot of damage to the US.
I think if they go through with this, they will shift the ID verification onto another feature/badge (that will also be paywalled, probably significantly more expensive). This is just a good way to extract some money out of the people who revere the blue check (lol) right now. The authenticity guarantee is a big draw of twitter for the celebrity humpers, so they're gonna have to find a way to maintain that. Paying to improve your experience on the site is a perfectly fine model to follow, as we do here at CF.net
Bro don't try to tell me that the left didn't have a huge part in catapulting Trump into the white house. They never shut the **** up about him for two straight years before he won.
From what I remember he was mostly the butt of jokes and few took him seriously. Anyway this has always been an odd argument that somehow the Left is responsible for Donald Trump. It was the Republicans who voted for him and who continue to pledge loyalty to him.
