Tying user verification to a subscription service just makes zero sense to me. I guess it’s good that meta will actually attempt to verify people - Twitter doesn’t bother (it’s a “pay us and we’ll give you a verified check for almost whatever name you want” system). But, generally speaking, why do I care about being verified? Literally makes no difference to me. Just seems like $100+ a year down the toilet.
The original Twitter Blue made more sense… it was like $5 a month for some extra features and no ads. Now, it’s more money + you still apparently get ads + the extra features are still crap.
DontListenToMe33 t1_j97cuzf wrote
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Tying user verification to a subscription service just makes zero sense to me. I guess it’s good that meta will actually attempt to verify people - Twitter doesn’t bother (it’s a “pay us and we’ll give you a verified check for almost whatever name you want” system). But, generally speaking, why do I care about being verified? Literally makes no difference to me. Just seems like $100+ a year down the toilet.
The original Twitter Blue made more sense… it was like $5 a month for some extra features and no ads. Now, it’s more money + you still apparently get ads + the extra features are still crap.