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Some better takes on this from what I've seen: https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/1587381512500125699 https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/158738151250012569
by res0nat0r 4y ago
Some better takes on this from what I've seen:
https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/1587381512500125699 https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/1587381512500125699
> If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter…Twitter’s current revenues (mostly from ads) are $5 billion a year. Musk’s apparent plan would generate about 30 hours’ worth of annual revenue.
https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1587509202401927168 https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1587509202401927168
> Absolutely no one should pay $8 or $20 a month to support Elton Murk's latest scam. Asking low-income Twitter users to pay $92 a year so their tweets don't get hidden and deprioritized alongside bots is not giving "power to the people."
- memish 4y ago"It elicits shrieks because it’s more about leveling the playing field than making money."
- mscarborough 4y agoReposting your comment doesn't make it any more true.
- whoknew1122 4y agoTwitter is currently free. This proposed subscription prioritizes content based on who can/decides to pay $8 a month. How exactly is this leveling the playing field?
- LastTrain 4y agoYou already said that. Leveling the playfield would be having no distinguishing marks at all.
- rideontime 4y agoHow does adding a new subscription feature and changing verification checkmarks to "secondary tags" level the playing field? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587527711228149765 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587527711228149765
- bdougherty 4y agoBecause previously you had to be blessed to get a bluecheck, now you just have to pay. Way more people have the means to pay than were blessed.
- rideontime 4y agoBut the "blessed" keep their unique status with the "secondary tag." Everybody knows that's the checkmark.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoIf you look at any politician account they now have a small flag and "official" below their name. 2 tiers have become 3.
- Dylan16807 4y agoIt levels a few people and covers the rest of the field with potholes.
- res0nat0r 4y agoThe 2nd comment above pretty much debunks that IMO. If you're paying money and given more visibility to your comments vs. non-paying users, this does the exact opposite.
- mmahemoff 4y agoWhat percentage of "current" blue ticks convert is not material since the TAM is about to become every Twitter user. And the offering is not just about verification, but other Blue features. Personally I have no interest in a blue check, but I'd happily pay $8/month to remove ads (unfortunately only half the ads will be removed in this iteration).
- paganel 4y ago> Asking low-income Twitter users to I'm curious how many low-income Twitter users now have a blue-check.
- reaperducer 4y agoIf one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter Until suddenly there are yellow checkmarks available for $100/month, and red checkmarks available for $500/month, and enterprise-only green checkmarks for $5,000/month.
- type-r 4y agonot that i think this is some brilliant revenue strategy but it does not strike me as a good take to automatically assume that the current blue check mark base is a strict superset of who will pay $8/month
- res0nat0r 4y agoHe's really gotten in over his head on this one. https://twitter.com/CMacCaba/status/1585914462951047168 https://twitter.com/CMacCaba/status/1585914462951047168 > Musk has dumped $13bn of debt onto Twitter's company account, increasing the interest repayments from $51m to $1bn a year. Its entire gross income is c. $700m a year. Its net income is negative & it doesn't receive gov. subsidies that kept similarly loss-making Telsa alive A longer thread informative thread here too: https://twitter.com/aidanpobrien/status/1587450510549852160 https://twitter.com/aidanpobrien/status/1587450510549852160