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cartsucks t1_jdf8cfg wrote

I’m surprised it’s taking this long. I figured this would have been nixed right away. Its a stupid move but on par for the new ownership over there.

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schlazz t1_jdf9lhi wrote

Musk is the dumbest billionaire on earth.

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roj2323 t1_jdfesia wrote

Isn't capitalism great! /s

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fallenmonk t1_jdffkw9 wrote

I think a lot of people buy the checkmark so that people confuse them for being someone actually notable. When that's no longer the case, interest in Twitter Blue is going to plummet.

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TexButtery t1_jdfhpxj wrote

Is it possible to block everyone with a blue check? Best to not support such nonsense.

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tH3_p3rf3cti0nisT t1_jdfjjvi wrote

Elon Musk wants his return on investment. Everyone has to do a check to Elon.

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AutoBot82 t1_jdfnwyl wrote

Someone needs to arrest Elon for intentional homicide. He is killing twitter.

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cocorobot t1_jdftmgg wrote

Received an email that my 2FA was turned off. I thought someone hacked my account and when I went to change password and turn it back on was told 2FA was now a subscription service.

HAHAHAHAHA … go fuck yourself Elon. Enjoy the class-action lawsuit when someone’s account is hacked because you turned off 2FA.

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ddhuud t1_jdg04lx wrote

Damn that is STUPID. If I still had a Twitter account I'd close it.

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deajmichel t1_jdg3a7g wrote

If you still have a Twitter account don’t complain idiots

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[deleted] t1_jdg4fup wrote

A lot of negativity here towards Twitter and Elon.

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OverallManagement824 t1_jdg9u9m wrote

I went on Twitter for the first time in a month and was surprised how shitty it has become. No reason to return.

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50mm-f2 t1_jdgidwk wrote

Replying to fallenmonk (#2,327,358)

It’s a little different than that, worse. Musk is basically making it almost necessary to stay relevant. They are starting to filter comments and posts prioritizing checkmarks. I’m on Twitter a lot, you kinda have to have it for people to take you seriously now. I don’t have it on my personal account.

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50mm-f2 t1_jdgime7 wrote

Replying to S4T4NICP4NIC (#2,330,414)

there is so little real value there nowadays though. it’s all memes and shitposting .. even at the high level. at least that’s what’s popular. there are lots of valuable things being said and shared on the DL, but it’s all drowned out by the loudest dumbest voice.

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50mm-f2 t1_jdgj03i wrote

The fun part is .. when you change your profile picture if you have a PAID membership, it automatically sends your account for review, takes off the checkmark and locks you out of changing your profile picture .. FOR UP TO A WEEK!

So yes .. people are paying to NOT be able to change their profile pics on a fucking social media platform 😂😂😂

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Gutchies t1_jdgj0h1 wrote

Replying to ChalupaCabre (#2,330,209)

no one person should single-handedly be able to sink a platform within months of acquisition imo. there should be limits to private action that affects and/or afflicts millions

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[deleted] t1_jdglcku wrote

For such a supposedly brilliant guy, Musk sure has to learn a lot of things the hard way.

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[deleted] t1_jdglgc3 wrote

Replying to fallenmonk (#2,327,358)

And that's not even counting the loss of interest as parties leave or deprioritize the platform due to all the issues created from either losing their checkmark or having to pay.

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[deleted] t1_jdglmrb wrote

Replying to 50mm-f2 (#2,331,227)

Sure, but the thing with that is if Twitter loses utility because of those moves, a lot of users and companies will just either leave the platform entirely or at least greatly de-prioritize it.

Twitter may well end up being the thing that's not relevant when all is said and done.

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eugene20 t1_jdgmgn0 wrote

Really it should be a crime to have to keep paying to verify that you are you, the first time is enough when there is 2FA.

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XLauncher t1_jdgmwab wrote

I wonder what they'll end up breaking when this goes live.

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Hi_it_is_Eye t1_jdh2k0u wrote

I’ve never used Twitter in my life. Let me now add my 2 cents

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ian9outof10 t1_jdh2za2 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,332,013)

Someone said on Twitter I'd paid "$10k" to be verified. Do people actually believe this? The original verification was done if you had some sort of profile and was always free. Companies would be verified if they had an ad campaign large enough, but also were verified for free along the same lines as journalists etc.

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prosthetic_foreheads t1_jdh5o8a wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,332,644)

That the actions he's taking are devaluing the social media platform that he owns one bit at a time. That he spent too much money on a company because of his pride and his own big mouth, and now they've barely got the money to stay afloat, that he's incurred more debt buying it than the money the company will make. His own words.

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LazilyAddicted t1_jdh73ee wrote

It feels strange, I kinda grew out of the shitposting of reddit over ten years ago and moved to Twitter. Now it's is a cesspit, and I regret ever leaving reddit. Strange how things go full circle like that.

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cntrlaltdel33t t1_jdh802e wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,332,620)

It would be clever if that many people would actually pay for it… the fact that anyone can pay for a check mark means the check mark will become worthless. It used to be a way to verify the source of a tweet to some extent; it’s now becoming just a symbol that you pay twitter $8 a month, or however much it is.

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SatoshisStalker t1_jdhae0v wrote

Worst decision ever. After allowing users to buy blue check marks of course. It undermines the purpose of verification. The blue check mark on Twitter was meant to verify the authenticity of an account. Now it’s useless.

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rumhee t1_jdheess wrote

Replying to OverallManagement824 (#2,330,453)

yeah, i stopped using it the day Elon took over (wish I’d quit years earlier!). Occasionally people send me links to tweets, so I see that tweet and then a few “more tweets” beneath. the “more tweets” are invariably two shitty “jokes” by Elon, and one semi-racist joke from a self-described “centrist”.

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frygod t1_jdhfq1v wrote

Replying to Thoughtsofglought (#2,329,130)

On one hand, SMS is not free. On the other hand, maintaining a short code is like $3000 quarterly last time I had it quoted, and you're looking at $0.003 for outbound text messages and $0.0009 for inbound. You'd also have to maintain a block list to remain compliant with FCC regulations, though doing the service as opt-in only may get you around that a bit.

Now let's do some napkin math. If the 450,000,000 active users perform a login once a month that triggers second factor, you'd take that $0.003 and multiply it by the total active users. That gives us $1,350,000 in outbound SMS fees. That is... actually quite a bit more money than I expected.

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Sorge74 t1_jdhhktc wrote

Replying to schlazz (#2,326,726)

That's probably not true. You have oil money arab billionaires who drive around with tigers and lions in their million dollar sports cars. But maybe it is true, cause they have the good sense to not try and buy Twitter.

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S4T4NICP4NIC t1_jdhpsxx wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,331,490)

I agree 100%. There needs to be some kind of publicly funded platform (fuck off libertarians), otherwise things would just move to another huge company.

Either way, it would (will?) be a major undertaking to extricate everything from Musk's madhouse.

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ThreeToMidnight t1_jdhros8 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,332,620)

A few mega corps and influencer wannabes will invest in the checkmark, but getting a majority of your base to pay $8, enough to become profitable will not happen on a social media platform. An alternative to twitter will be made and everyone will migrate to the new platform. It's basically myspace happening all over again.

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Hannig4n t1_jdhspci wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,331,482)

Yeah I spend a lot less time on Twitter these days because of it.

Regular people who buy check marks do it because they aren’t actually funny or interesting enough for their posts to get traction on their own. So when the platform boosts check mark people over regular users, the app is less enjoyable to be on.

You have to be a special kind of desperate to spend money on the check mark, people see it and immediately start making fun of you for it. It’s either boring people who want more attention or journalists who need it for professional purposes.

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Fluffy8Panda t1_jdhv3oq wrote

due to constant forcing of right wing politics in my "recommended" i told Marjorie Taylor greene to step into traffic and got permanantly banned on twitter. The website is a joke.

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thepaleblue t1_jdhy3c6 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,333,463)

Twitter was making about $28 million from subscribers at the end of last year. Not sure how much it costs to keep the lights on since Musk fired 75% of the staff, but it would easily be above $1 billion. Add to that a drop in ad revenue from driving the "normies" away, it just doesn't stack up to a sustainable business.

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rasvial t1_jdi4jwh wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,333,380)

I think you're absolutely kidding yourself if you think you're not defending him. The company was near profitable, and he burned the real revenue- ADS. if you look at streaming for example, you might think "it's because they charge all the users a monthly fee that keeps the lights on" but generally it's not even a third of the money pulled in by advertising to those users.

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kobachi t1_jdi7a1l wrote

Prediction: they won't do it, they'll yell "April fools!", but they'll still have driven a lot of new subscription revenue

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stevej3n t1_jdia7xe wrote

We are all blue, some are just more blue than others, because they pay.

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Viciouscauliflower21 t1_jditbv8 wrote

The only reason the pay for play checks were even valuable is because of the weight held by the legacy marks. You're literally making your own idea less valuable dummy. You're turning it into a scarlet letter

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SuperSpread t1_jdjfrpe wrote

Replying to WH1TE-W0LF (#2,335,603)

Imagine you had to choose a subreddit to be your whole reddit, while viewing it with twitter's interface.

Well, it's worse than that. But glad some people can bear it. Alternatives will be the end of twitter.

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[deleted] t1_jdjqx68 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,333,380)

Yes, I would say that because he's not going to turn Twitter profitable by running off advertisers, alienating users and rolling back policies designed to keep the company free of legal and PR issues, which is pretty much all he's done to date.

Frankly, it's very debatable whether Twitter can be profitable, but Musk seems determined to dig a deeper hole.

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[deleted] t1_jdjr9tx wrote

Replying to S4T4NICP4NIC (#2,335,342)

Maybe I'm showing my age here but I would argue there really doesn't need to be this type of platform at all. It wasn't that long ago that society functioned just fine (I would argue in some ways better) without it.

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[deleted] t1_jdjrod2 wrote

Replying to Hannig4n (#2,335,667)

IMHO the only valid reason for a checkmark is if you're in a position where people are going to impersonate you and where said impersonation causes damage. That should be a service Twitter wants as it's good for the platform to weed out that crap.

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rasvial t1_jdjtex3 wrote

Replying to grkfx (#2,342,715)

It was, they just needed to expose their data in a way that would better allow for sane advertisement to get good reach, then the cpm increases and revenue follows. Now they've got no hope.

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abdulsaminu t1_jdjyiwv wrote

  1. How a smart investor makes money: Buy Twitter.
  2. How a smart investor makes more money: charge $8 per month for Twitter Blue.
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it_administrator01 t1_jdlowld wrote

Replying to rasvial (#2,337,133)

it's always a superiority complex - apply some critical thinking

People on this website are constantly trying to belittle users of other social media platforms, or crying about how terrible other social media platforms are, when this one is arguably one of the worst and most complicit in terms of political division over the past 7 years

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FieldMouse-777 t1_jdmet69 wrote

Twitter should be discarded. I dropped bc of Musk and my quality of life improved.

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rasvial t1_jdmplva wrote

Replying to it_administrator01 (#2,350,309)

Arguably the dumbest take, given you brought the comparison up, nobody else had. It's not "people on this website" it's you, and you're really confused if you think a platform used to stir insurrection is less divisive than reddit.

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