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I believe LeBron James said recently he isn't going to waste his money on a blue checkmark, so it should be interesting to see what stays and what goes.
by bradly 4y ago
I believe LeBron James said recently he isn't going to waste his money on a blue checkmark, so it should be interesting to see what stays and what goes.
- zaroth 4y agoLeBron doesn’t get $84 of value from Twitter? Definitely not a political statement going on there.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoParent didn’t say it’s not “political”. It’s reasonable for a wealthy person to feel that a system that discriminates against the poor is not a system they want to participate in. (Note that I use discriminate in the literal sense, as a simple statement of fact.)
- nonethewiser 4y agoBut the example you give is an appeal to a universal moral good. Not partisan politics. So despite saying it’s not not political, your justification is that it’s not political. Also, how did you get a blue check before being able to buy one?
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoSome people unfortunately view concern for the poor as political. However my point of mentioning politics is to say that “it’s political” is not any kind of gotcha when it was never denied as being political. Regardless of the actual justification being political or not, the “political” gotcha is nonsense.
- nonethewiser 4y agoThat’s bullshit. Virtually everyone agrees poverty is a problem. Sure, the welfare state feeds the cycle of poverty, but it’s not like that was the goal.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoAbsolutely not bullshit. Some cynical people on the internet believe this, and that's what I thought the person I was replying to was saying. It is an extremely low bar to say "some people believe X", and I don't know why you care to question that. Even with your own reply you say "virtually all people agree" and your use of "virtually" acknowledges that not everyone agrees with you, therefore some people do believe what I say. This is anyway such a silly tangent and was not even my point.
- nonethewiser 4y agoThe exception proves the rule though.
- dazc 4y agoAre you sure about that? If I break out of the poverty cycle who am I going to vote for?
- nonethewiser 4y agoRepublicans I guess, but the point is that doesn’t mean Democrats hate poor people. That’s just political framing.
- web3-is-a-scam 4y agolol you don't actually believe that's his reason do you?
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoLeBron started a school where poor kids can get free food and clothes. The man obviously cares.
- web3-is-a-scam 4y agoyeah he gave some money and shows up for photo ops sometimes, sticking the taxpayers with the rest of the bill - swell guy
- 6d6b73 4y agoLike it or not but it's the twitter that gets value from celebrities. How many people are on social networks jusy so see what their fav celebrites are doing?
- nonethewiser 4y agoIt obviously goes both ways. Social media is a megaphone and ego boost for celebs.
- mullingitover 4y agoThe problem for twitter is it isn't the only game in town when it comes to social media, not by a long shot. They're not even in the top ten. They're a megaphone in a large pile of megaphones, and those other megaphones don't bite the hand that picks them up.
- ceejayoz 4y agoTwitter needs the LeBrons of the world far more than they need Twitter.
- dpifke 4y agoAs someone who was on Twitter long before Oprah, or Elon, or Obama, or most other celebrities and politicians: I strongly disagree. (Speaking about Twitter the product, not necessarily Twitter the company.)
- ceejayoz 4y agoThat was an entirely different era. If you yearn for it, come on over to Mastodon. Twitter the multi-billion dollar advertising company needs the big whales. I think it was pretty clear the company was under discussion.
- dazc 4y agoWhat their fav celebrites say -v- what 'the media' says?
- __jem 4y agoTwitter doesn’t get $84 of value from Lebron?
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoHe may well, but he may have also concluded that the indirect cost of having a blue tick outweighs the benefits.
- katamarimambo 4y agoLebron famously uses the free version of Spotify. Maybe he just does not see the value of paying for the blue mark.
- drstewart 4y agoDepends on how they weight the is_user_china_mouthpiece variable
- anigbrowl 4y agoMost of the major news outlets are not doing so either. The Elon stans are crowing that this will be the long-overdue end of legacy media, but it strikes me that the new 'blue check twitter' might end up becoming even more of a social bubble than what it replaced. There are so many low quality accounts sporting a checkmark now that users who value substance will soon be incentivized to just block anyone they find annoying.
- Avshalom 4y agoyeah, they, uh seem to have realized that's gonna be a problem. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-business-monthly-verified-status-fee-exempt-1235569966/ https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-business-month... and of course all this means is that the organizations most likely to be able to afford it won't have to
- anigbrowl 4y agoGood find! It'll be funny to see if the incumbents respond with 'don't do me any favors.' Also to see whether Musk's frens sulk aboit him selling out to the elites or so - their gratitude has an extremely short half-life.
- MKais 4y agoNY Times, WaPo, LA Times and other major accounts too https://www.thewrap.com/ny-times-la-times-not-pay-for-twitter-blue-check/ https://www.thewrap.com/ny-times-la-times-not-pay-for-twitte...
- nonethewiser 4y agoSeems dumb of them. Cost is trivial and their competition that isn’t so politically motivated will have a much further reach. The smart move would be silent on the policy change, pay, and support rival platforms as they can. Instead they will eventually pay and look like they lost.
- Auracle 4y agoWe’re in a time where ideology trumps revenue for some companies. You know, “Get woke, go broke.”
- mullingitover 4y ago> Seems dumb of them. Cost is trivial and their competition that isn’t so politically motivated will have a much further reach. It's wild hubris for twitter to try to invoice/penalize the very users and organizations that make twitter anything but insolvent. There should be money exchanged here, but it should be flowing generously and most importantly in the other direction.
- nonethewiser 4y agoSo you need a blue check mark to reach non followers and Lebron won’t get one? Sounds like it’s making Twitter better already.
- dazc 4y agoI had to search who this person is, and I still could not care less.