Mistakes? The premium was one of the best choices Musk made. Everyone kept using it and it allowed him to just extract wealth from people for no consequences. Why wouldn’t other companies follow suit?
Does anyone remember being around people, when you were a kid, that awarded you behavioral stickers that are holographic and had various shapes like stars or animals?
This is exactly what this stupid verification thing is about. OoOOOoO, I’m so special that I got a fucking checkmark next to my name and I actually spend money that could’ve gone to something else worthwhile just to keep it! /s
I feel like we’re in a world where all of these companies are fronted by childish adults that treat all of their userbases like these kinds of kids. But they pretend that they’re adults because they do business things.
It’d be one thing if they were adding any more value or removing their marketing surveillance, but paying this much per month for a blue check mark is just bonkers.
The way it was meant to be, when social media started doing that, is that it verifies your identity. You use your real name (or stage name, or business name) in the account, and they “verify” it actually belongs to you and not an impostor.
Now instead, it verifies that you paid the fee, and your account name could be Napoleon Bonaparte for what they care.
For the same price as an entire TV subscription where you can watch hundreds of shows and movies, all month if you’d like, would you like to have a few pixels change next to your name and have your experience be almost entirely the exact same as it is for free?
I’m just confused why you’re censoring yourself. I don’t need or want anything from you. If you’re worried about saying a word that you think is offensive, don’t say it. If you’re not worried, say it.
I dunno, it delegitimised the usefulness of Twitter somewhat. Now you can’t be certain that the NASA account that announces an apocalyptic asteroid is real or not.
I don’t really use Twitter ever, so I’m not 100% sure, but isn’t that what the colored checkmarks are for? Like he started charging for the blue checkmark, but then added gold and gray (and maybe others I don’t know about?) for marking official organizations/companies.
tried Threads and it feels like Mastodon with all the good features removed, which is probably why people are leaving. Even after over 2 weeks, it’s still the exact same piece of shit as it was on its launch
are tech companies doing this now-paid-but-was-free-for-a-long-time service because they know their company is failing (or soon to fail), so they are trying to accumulate as much money as they can before sh*t hits the fan?
I am not an economist, but I have an idea that this is because the alternatives have done that too, and since this renders the point of moving invalid, they might as well also introduce the same stuff
A lot of social media companies aren’t profitable, but they didn’t care because of cheap loans and lots of investors. Now that loans are more ecpensive and investors want AI, social media companies are realizing, “We need to make money, or investors will hate us”, and are locking things down. Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, and Tumblr are some of the examples we see. All trying to push subscriptions or block adblockers.
Am I reading that right? It will cost an extra $4 to register the check mark on mobile devices compared to desktop?
Does that mean you only get the benefits on mobile if you pay the extra $ or does it mean you can pay either way but charging on mobile has a $4 convenience fee?
I was also surprised that you will need to verify all your accounts. If you run 3 social media accounts across Instagram or Facebook, you can buy a blue tick for each, even though you run them all from your (maybe) verified account
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