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X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month or risk losing verification status
- ozfive 3y agoGot my popcorn right here...
- aio2 3y agoFrom 8 to 1000... that's quite the jump.
- selbyk 3y agoTwitter Blue was always $1000 for organizations, wasn't it? Only $8 for individuals
- smotched 3y agoYup technically its free if they spend 1k...they get all the value from the 1k worth of ads plus the gold checkmark
- nomel 3y agoSo, this only impacts businesses spending less than $1k on ads? I'm curious what percent accounts, and percent spend, that is. An AM radio ad run will cost you more than that.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoThe spam in my timeline and likes from obvious bots is magnitudes higher than even a few months ago. So I’m not sure why advertisers would want to increase spend there
- matteoraso 3y agoWhat is with this obsession over bots? If anything, a horde of bots that seem identical to humans could be a good way of artificially boosting metrics, and it's not even illegal because Twitter didn't create or encourage people to create these bots.
- abrookewood 3y agoIt's just an excuse.
- justbored123 3y ago[dead]
- kjs3 3y ago"We'd hate something bad to happen to your business...I'm sure there's a way you can make sure that doesn't happen...". So basically they're adopting the Yelp playbook.
- midoridensha 3y agoIsn't Twitter the place where your company's ad is likely to be placed next to, for instance, a porn site's ad? Why would anyone want to advertise there these days?
- kalleboo 3y agoMy employer was looking into testing advertising on Twitter, and the $1000 cost to entry was a hard stop on that. Seems like a very poor policy.
- smotched 3y agoThats false, you can spend $20 if you want, you just wont get the gold checkmark
- seattle_spring 3y ago[flagged]
- nomel 3y agoAs a third party person who has never had a Twitter account, I don't think someone pointing out something that's easily verified as being false, as stated, is "defending twitter".
- seattle_spring 3y agoHow about when they have a 2-year long post history that exclusively pushes back against Twitter and Elon criticism?
- midoridensha 3y agoI think it's a great policy. Hopefully Elon will raise the price another tenfold or more.
- snapcaster 3y agoWhy?
- fortyseven 3y agoPresumably to hasten the exodus.
- abrookewood 3y agoSounds a lot like a protection racket ...
- anon373839 3y agoI noticed today that the X logo is very, very similar to the Xs in Forever 21’s store signage (“XXI Forever”). https://www.simon.com/mall/northshore-mall/stores/xxi-forever https://www.simon.com/mall/northshore-mall/stores/xxi-foreve... I guess this makes Elon’s company Forever 10? Which kind of tracks...
- penjelly 3y agoisnt it a literal unicode character?
- TechTechTech 3y agoYes it is 𝕏 (U+1D54F, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X)
- anon373839 3y agoJust a lame attempt at humor on my part. :)
- andeee23 3y agoi guess you can call that… Xtortion
- sillywalk 3y agoX tells advertisers to spend $1k per month to not have their ads placed next to open anti-Semites, fascists, anti-vax conspiracies, unless Elon Musk posts or retweets them, or decides to not pay the bills.
- rchaud 3y agoAll this will do is change the spam vector from paid ads injected into your feed, to self-promoting tweets in the comments section, where $8 blue checks get top blling.