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Elon Musk is changing Twitter verification process. Users will be now charged with $8 for blue tick.
Twitter's new Chief Elon Musk has announced that Twitter's verification will be now renewed. The coveted blue tick will be available to users for the price of $8 per month. He further said that the Twitter verification charges would also be subject to a country’s “purchasing power parity”.
Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
By paying the fees, verified users will be able to get priority in replies, mentions, and searches. He said this could prove to be essential to defeating spam/scams, give users the ability to post long video and audio, come across half as many ads.
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Publishers that are willing to work with the social media company can get a paywall bypass.
Musk said that the idea behind changing Twitter's verification process was to give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators.
Soon, the microblogging platform flooded with complaints from users.
If blue ticks become a commodity and lose its signaling status, follower count will become alternate signaling status.
— Kunal Shah (@kunalb11) November 1, 2022
Those with followers from populous nations will have unfair advantage of this new signaling.
Humans never crave equality.
They crave restratification.
How will you protect against impersonators who pay $8/month for a similar username that appears indistinguishable from the real person? Especially if they both have blue check marks?
— Graham Stephan (@GrahamStephan) November 1, 2022
Faux populism from billionaires who just want to cut taxes & regulations for the rich, while crushing rights of workers to get basic social safety & bargaining necessary to be healthy, productive, and have meaningful opportunity is particularly infuriating type of faux populism.
— David Rothschild 🌻 (@DavMicRot) November 1, 2022
After seeing the outrage, Musk changed his Twitter bio from ‘Twit chief’ to Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator.
To all complainers, please continue complaining, but it will cost $8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
After buying out Twitter, from Twitter verification to advertising plan, Musk has made a slew of changes in the organization. In a Tweet, he had said that “Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world”.
Yesterday, Musk also dismissed the entire board and became the sole director of the social media platform. He is now the micro-blogging platform’s chief executive.
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