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I think what will sink Twitter will be if Mr Musk goes ahead with his plan (as he's stated) to have "blue tick" tweets all float to the top while deprecating tw

I think what will sink Twitter will be if Mr Musk goes ahead with his plan (as he's stated) to have "blue tick" tweets all float to the top while deprecating tweets from non-paying users. In my world $8/month seems an outrageous amount for the privilege of bloviating into the void, yet if I don't see my own comments and those of my other non-paying friends, what the hell is the point of even being on the platform?

cbeach 4y ago
I think the $8/month charge will put spam and bots out of business. That’s why Musk is doing it. I’ve just subscribed to Twitter Blue and aside from the extra features, I have a lot of confidence that if others do this, we’ll have a more robust and civil platform.
- mikro2nd 4y ago
  Funny... I think the exact opposite. The spammers and bot-herders will flock to buy blue ticks in order to look more legit. The rest of us don't basically give a fuck.
  - sinity 4y ago
    > Funny... I think the exact opposite. The spammers and bot-herders will flock to buy blue ticks in order to look more legit. The rest of us don't basically give a fuck. $8/m/bot is a lot compared to $0. > The rest of us don't basically give a fuck Not very convincing given the amount of giving a fuck lots of people seem to be doing. Including some pretty dumb people (yet verified...) who straight up tweet that their problem with the idea is that "it won't be special anymore".
pessimizer 4y ago
$8/month sounds cheap for an actual, continuing verification of identity. The proposal that blue checks be an indication of some sort of process rather than a gift handed to powerusers is nothing but egalitarian. If you and your non-paying friends are commenting on each other's tweets, I don't know how oppressed you would be by blue checks floating to the top of threads. Are there tons of blue checks in your threads now? In case somebody needs an existence proof, I'd prefer blue checks rising to the top. It would cut down on 99% of abuse if 20x<firstname><bunchofnumbers> couldn't get anywhere near the top of the thread. If blue checks also got the ability to prioritize the the people they follow (or a separate priority reply list, rather than using their follows), we might see some civilized discussion without all the brownshirt disruption. This would absolutely panic the administration, and the intelligence and military communities, though (and probably a lot of PR agencies) so I don't see it happening.

cbeach 4y ago

I think the $8/month charge will put spam and bots out of business. That’s why Musk is doing it. I’ve just subscribed to Twitter Blue and aside from the extra features, I have a lot of confidence that if others do this, we’ll have a more robust and civil platform.

mikro2nd 4y ago
Funny... I think the exact opposite. The spammers and bot-herders will flock to buy blue ticks in order to look more legit. The rest of us don't basically give a fuck.
- sinity 4y ago
  > Funny... I think the exact opposite. The spammers and bot-herders will flock to buy blue ticks in order to look more legit. The rest of us don't basically give a fuck. $8/m/bot is a lot compared to $0. > The rest of us don't basically give a fuck Not very convincing given the amount of giving a fuck lots of people seem to be doing. Including some pretty dumb people (yet verified...) who straight up tweet that their problem with the idea is that "it won't be special anymore".

pessimizer 4y ago

$8/month sounds cheap for an actual, continuing verification of identity. The proposal that blue checks be an indication of some sort of process rather than a gift handed to powerusers is nothing but egalitarian. If you and your non-paying friends are commenting on each other's tweets, I don't know how oppressed you would be by blue checks floating to the top of threads. Are there tons of blue checks in your threads now? In case somebody needs an existence proof, I'd prefer blue checks rising to the top. It would cut down on 99% of abuse if 20x<firstname><bunchofnumbers> couldn't get anywhere near the top of the thread. If blue checks also got the ability to prioritize the the people they follow (or a separate priority reply list, rather than using their follows), we might see some civilized discussion without all the brownshirt disruption. This would absolutely panic the administration, and the intelligence and military communities, though (and probably a lot of PR agencies) so I don't see it happening.