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Who is going to pay? There's at most a few tens of thousands of people who care about their identity being verified on Twitter (because they're journalists, com
by XorNot 5y ago
Who is going to pay? There's at most a few tens of thousands of people who care about their identity being verified on Twitter (because they're journalists, company leaders, politicians). How much is Twitter worth to those people? Probably not $10,000 per year, so we're talking about a very limited additional revenue source.
For a lot of other people on Twitter, the pseudo-anonymity is a feature not a bug.
- dd36 5y agoWhatsApp charged a few dollars a year and did fine. I’d pay if it allowed me to filter out garbage. It’s like paying for the removal of commercials. I don’t believe Musk intends to require people to be publicly identified. I don’t believe I follow anyone anonymous on Twitter.
- qwytw 5y agoTwitter has over 7000 employees, for WhatsApp's business model to work they'd need to cut this by 10x or so and there is no way they justify the 45 billion valuation if they do that.
- dd36 5y agoHuh? I’m not following. Why would this hurt revenue? Authenticated real people are more valuable to advertisers.
- yywwbbn 5y agoDid WhatsApp have Ads? I thought all their income was from subscriptions? If it’s only for verification they, yeah, they might be fine as long as the verification fee is optional.
- dd36 5y agoI do not believe they are literally applying the WhatsApp model. The point was that small amounts of money are tolerable in a network effect.
- Bud 5y agoRemember for a moment that we live in a world where people drop $20 for a virtual Sword of Wounding +4. Often more than monthly in a single game. A few bucks a month is nothing these days for dedicated netizens who want their social drug of choice.