To answer the question...probably no. Then again, I'm spending $20 a month for Netflix content and that's mostly worthless too...
Seems like that's not the case. Guess he wasn't into user verification after all. Elon Musk, Under Financial Pressure, Pushes to Make Money From Twitter - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Mr. Musk’s new Twitter Blue subscription service, which will give subscribers the check mark next to their username, is aiming to begin on Nov. 7 in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, according to internal documents seen by The Times. Subscribers would not need their identities authenticated to get the check mark, the documents suggested. The documents also noted that there would be “an interim period where the check would be on both Blue subscribers accounts and previously verified users.” Eventually, verified accounts that do not pay for Twitter Blue will lose the check marks. There are more than 423,000 verified accounts on Twitter.
I spent time yesterday with one of the largest advertising spenders and they did say they are shifting their budget from Twitter to Facebook. They were a bit surprised when I said I'd do it the other way around.
I’d go to YouTube. YouTube is going to war against TikTok and Google knows everything about us already.
Who has created more in the world Wait what, this is not what MUSKLORDS said - i thought musk was bringing in REAL engineers from Tesla, you mean they can't build an ID verification database that corresponds to ground truth data for the entire world and combine it with authentication for their giant social network in one week? Wtf is wrong with those guys - they must not have their boss sleeping in the factory enough. Also - sure I'll pay for this: $4 to DM Post Malone - where do i sign up?
It was my understanding there was never going to be any form of identification verification. The blue checkmark originally served the user was verified and confirmed against spammer/scammers. It has since turned into a elitist club that people like AOC find so important. It was explicitly stated the $8 was to provide priority of content. This method to combat spammers/bot has been discussed for a couple years on twitter now. It was likely never implemented because Twitter leadership found the bots and spam accounts more valuable to increase perceived network effect. Musk did state public figures would get an additional note in the profile to verify they were legit.
Then it sounds like what this does amounts to reusing the “check mark” for Twitter Blue and adding some more perks, with the price bump? How does this combat spam/bots?
The Astros win last night and you guys are arguing about something so trivial as twitter...............come on man its Friday, take a day off from the BS and celebrate. Take your D and R hats off for a minute and celebrate a glorious sunshine filled Friday
Subscribers get promoted to the top in replies and mentions. The current system rewards those who get the most engagement. Creating bots/spamming likes is extremely cheap. This is essentially the mechanism that allows foreign actors to dictate political discussions. Russians can create hundreds of thousands of accounts and spam stupid conspiracy theories or other ignorant topics that encourage dumb Americans in both parties to fall for dumb ****. Sure, a scammer can pay $8.00 to be promoted, but it's much better than the current system that pushes well intentioned people to the bottom.
So anyone who doesn’t fork over $8 a month is in the spammer/bot tier? I’d hope they come up with some other methods to auto-detect such fake accounts. I’m really not against moving Twitter to a subscription-based service. Maybe they should just go all the way and require people to pay some amount to use it.
