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Elon & Twitter
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ZenRockGarden
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The $44B went to (now former) TWTR shareholders. None of it goes into TSLA or TWTR quality control
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
Any severance he pays to fired employees should be considered quality control.
unless he was high or had a stroke ... why in the world would you *ever* reply to a former presidential candidate with a link to a total joke of "news site" alleging that 82yr old Paul Pelosi hired a male prostitute ? and comment that as "there might be more to the story" ? Even worse if he actually read the article which after one paragraph was clear that it was an inflammatory troll article and not serious reporting...
Later deleting it without a comment (like: "sorry, i shared a bad source") doesnt really help...
ElectricIAC
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dhanson865
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and the poll options didn't have an annual price or once only price.
You don't see web admins buying SSL certs for websites on a per month basis. It's a once a year or multiyear renewal.
If they need revenue they need to tie it to some feature other than verification.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
$10/mo off FSD and a ticket to a monthly raffle to get a reply back from Elon.
Regarding paying for Twitter Blue, it might make sense for Twitter to pay people to sign up for it in select circumstances, as PayPal did two decades ago. I and 80% of people might not have any use for Twitter Blue because I don't post to Twitter. But if we get $25 freebies in our accounts for signing up for Twitter Blue (to give monetary tips or whatever), that might make it more worthwhile.
Several ways to seed this type of activity, leaving bots outside the gates.
Several ways to seed this type of activity, leaving bots outside the gates.
AlanSubie4Life
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Having people pay for Twitter Blue [EDIT: to be clear, I am not talking about Twitter Blue here - I am talking about blue check verification needing payment, which has also been reported (possibly some conflation of the two distinct products here)] is laughable.
My guess is no one is thinking about the predictable consequences. (Well, plenty of people thinking about it, but they will be ignored.) Truly a rudderless ship now.
I guess no decisions made yet so maybe a strong hand at the tiller will still appear.
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360k people are verified on twitter.
www.vox.com
If they force $20 / month subscription on already verified twitter users, it's $86M in annualized revenue off the bat. I wonder how many people would sign up from the twitter user base to get that verified check mark?
If you apply the $5B in revenue in 2021 from Twitter...we're talking about an instant 1.7% increase in annualized revenue.
Twitter is verifying people again. Here’s how you can get a blue checkmark
After more than three years, the company is reopening a process for getting public figures a checkmark.
www.vox.com
If they force $20 / month subscription on already verified twitter users, it's $86M in annualized revenue off the bat. I wonder how many people would sign up from the twitter user base to get that verified check mark?
If you apply the $5B in revenue in 2021 from Twitter...we're talking about an instant 1.7% increase in annualized revenue.
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What are those predictable consequences, in your view?
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
You make it sound as if paying for Twitter Blue is something new. It is already a paid service and costs $4.99 a month.
And why do you call the company a ‘rudderless ship’ after it had a new owner for just a few days and he and his team are testing the water to see what users would prefer or find acceptable?
Hey! It’s called public-private partnership
Also, some people were annoyed that this poll result didn’t align with their subjective opinion
AlanSubie4Life
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People who want to rip people off will pay for checks.
While people who have expertise will tend not to bother.
It’ll flood the zone with unverified nonsense pushed by blue checks.
Good times!
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
It’s unclear what has been proposed, to be clear. There is discussion about blue checks, and there is also discussion about Twitter Blue prices. (While I said Twitter Blue above, I was talking about blue checks, verified users - I have edited the post to clarify.)
It’s unclear what will happen. As I said, we’ll see what actually happens.
The reporting is likely suspect, of course.
The lack of a meaningful rudder was made pretty clear over the weekend! It’s whack-a-doodle (not that that surprised anyone of course…this is not news). No serious person can claim that behavior engenders admiration and a desire to follow.
We’ll see what happens and see if they can find a way to service their debt and grow the business to eliminate it.
There is always the option of reattaching the rudder. Just takes time and stability and no more “mistakes,” and people will forgive. People in these positions get lots of chances.
At least no impact on Tesla, we can be thankful for that.
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The Intercept... mmmh. Let's see if any other news source picks up that article...
disinformation is all fun and giggles until someone shows up with an AR15 at a DC suburb pizzeria wanting to free "sex slave children"... just saying. it's not clear cut. Also see Dominion suing Fox News / Newsmax for their "voting machine reporting"
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