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Twitter Blue for $8/month. Price adjusted to purchasing power parity
- belter 4y agoIt's worst... https://i.redd.it/8p1wkiw94ex91.jpg https://i.redd.it/8p1wkiw94ex91.jpg
- pcurve 4y agoHe does have a point. Are tweets considered content? Twitter makes money off of his tweets. Why wouldn’t they cut him a share?
- kelseyfrog 4y agoI've been ridiculed for considering tweets to be content and capital on here, so I'm probably on the right track.
- netsharc 4y agoHmm, I have no idea about the art of the deal (yeah that's a phrase from another giant jerkoff, not this one), but it seems pretty weak to just fold and lower down the price in public like this.
- tsol 4y agoIt creates the impression of being reasonable and easy to talk to. Whether that impression is true I don't know but that's why it's good for PR
- ehPReth 4y ago“- Half as many ads” for a Netflix/Disney+/etc subscription price I’d love to see no ads at all… does the amount they make on ads from one person even crest what blue costs? how does the ad experience with blue balance with YouTube Premium of all things? :/
- nickthegreek 4y agopay $8 to still get ads... what dystopia is this.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoI mean that's is the predominate socio-economic organizational structure we indiscriminately apply to every exchange - "temper every material pleasure with monetary pain or monetary pleasure with material pain." On top of this, we've devised a perverse trick - purposefully make something bad so that people can pay to avoid it. Good on you, if by this point, you're mentally responding with, "but that's just how the world works," and take it one step further with the normative retort of, "but should it?" If the best of all possible worlds is a creeping dystopia we should sit on that thought for some time.
- readthenotes1 4y agoNo pain no gain
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThe dystopia is actually good for us
- science4sail 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424607
- wrycoder 4y agoComments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424607
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- streb-lo 4y agoRight now at least blue check marks mostly correlate to people with public personas that someone other than their own family might care about. Hard to see how diluting that even further will be a good idea.
- netsharc 4y agoMaybe Elon will introduce red ticks for "celebs", after selling blue ticks to the vain rubes. Hahaha.
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- etchalon 4y agoI don't understand why they had to conflate "Verified as who they say they are" with "Pays us money, so is probably a human." In fact, conflating those two things seems ripe for abuse.