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NY 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

• nonethewiser 4y ago
  Seems 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 ago
    We’re in a time where ideology trumps revenue for some companies. You know, “Get woke, go broke.”
    • flangola7 4y ago
      Everyone says that about things that made tons of money though.
      • Auracle 4y ago
        Oh, I don't disagree. I wasn't necessarily (always) agreeing with it. As with anything it's a matter of degrees.
    • myko 4y ago
      The phrase is "Better Broke Than Woke", we'll see how it works out for folks
  • 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.
    • VWWHFSfQ 4y ago
      maybe they can make their own twitter and give themselves a big blue check mark there
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  • runako 4y ago
    For the NYT to verify their official accounts plus those of their reporters (using the Twitter Blue Affiliations feature) would be $1m annually. This, for a budget line item that has heretofore been $0. In this economy, that's a reach. I don't think the NYT is worried about "reach."
    • tick_tock_tick 4y ago
      > I don't think the NYT is worried about "reach." LOL they are desperate for reach. Incredibly so; have you not listen to any podcast by them? They are begging people to go to their site. They get a fraction of the organic traffic they used to and nearly everything is driven from other site like Twitter, Google News, Facebook, etc. The internet age has not been kind to classic news orgs.
      • astrange 4y ago
        The NYT has been doing great recently. They're probably the legacy news company that's doing the best online of anyone. That's on the strength of having a lot of verticals like games, recipes and Wirecutter though.
        • adamrezich 4y ago
          have you seen @nyttypos and (to a lesser extent) @nyt_diff? NYT online editorial standards are hilariously abysmal. https://twitter.com/nyttypos https://twitter.com/nyttypos https://twitter.com/nyt_diff https://twitter.com/nyt_diff
          • astrange 4y ago
            Yeah and it doesn't matter.
            • adamrezich 4y ago
              correctly writing words and punctuation on the page digitally printed by "the legacy news company that's doing the best online of anyone" doesn't matter at all? isn't that like the bare minimum of what their job consists of?
  • fooey 4y ago
    It's smart because Musk already blinked The top 10,000 are getting exemptions and won't have to pay https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-business-monthly-verified-status-fee-exempt-1235569966/ https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-business-month...