It’s a dumb idea to charge verified users because verified users are the main attraction of Twitter for rank and file users. If anything Twitter should be paying high profile verified users to use the site.
it makes sense to a degree. You're a reporter/an actor/a politician/SB owner? pay up if you want your tweets to be taken serious. Or you can just go back to tweeting like the old days when no one was verified. Basically a SW downgrade, SW comps take away popular features all the time to offer it as an upgrade. All this does is it takes away all personal responsibility. If some unverified account slips and posts trash, you can't hold them accountable because it could be fake
On other leading social media sites.... high profile users and influencers are effectively paid to be on the site by sending them a split of ad revenue associated with their postings and viewership. IMO the top posters on Twitter are already leaving --- and requiring them to pay to have a verified account will simply accelerate the exodus.
surely....the fuck up was not charging for it from the onset. No one likes to have shit destroyed and get charged to be built back up (the Trump play)
Musk cancels payout bonus for fired execs. Good on Elon. https://www.businessinsider.com/elo...xecs-for-cause-avoid-severance-report-2022-10
The lecty freeloaders are going to be unhappy. They thought they would be on Twitter bitching about Elon. Turns out that they can be there bitching about Elon but have to pay for it. Not how that ilk rolls. The bots will need to pay up too or get filtered out. That's gonna hurt too.
why is it freeloading.... we generate a ton of hits for Elite trader that Baron uses to show to advertisers to pay their fees to announce here. If Baron decided instead to charge us each $50...most would simply leave. twats who post generate the views that twitter uses to market to advertisers, not the other way around. that is why all social platforms are free....to get as many clicks as they can to sell to advertisers.