New Twitter: such a hellscape & close to death, that Facebook copies it
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1627395420937768962
Scroll up - the real tweet is Disclose.Tv's - I only thought Elon's reply worth including.
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@blablarg18 If it were a one-time fee, I might consider it, but given that it's a monthly subscription fee, you can count me out of that. I refuse to pay monthly fees to be able to use the service... The same reason why I have not used the Twitter verified thing.
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Monthly fees aren't always bad.
In video games, monthly fees are my choice because "free to play" almost always means "pay to win".
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@raphjd Then that begs the question... Other than the blue check mark beside your name, what are the advantages or other "perks" if you will for paying the monthly fee to be verified? What incentives are there? What are the benefits?
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According to Twitter, you get;
The blue checkmark
50% fewer ads in your feed
"most talked about stories" feed aka Top Stories
An advanced reader
better support, but not top tier support, it's only £8 after all and we ain't that special
30 minutes to edit a tweet
there are a few other things too that I can't remember
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@raphjd So not really worth it.... 50% fewer ads is still 50% too many ads if I am expected to pay money every month IMO
But what about this option for Facebook? What will it come with?
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I haven't seen anything about what FB is offering.
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You also get more character spaces to tweet.
This is limited, at the moment, to the original 5 paid Blue checkmark countries; US, UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ. This will expand to all countries by the end of 2023.
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@raphjd Just how expanded are we talking?
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280 (thought it was 240) characters are the norm, but with Blue, you get 4k characters.
There are also 60-minute video uploads. You can only watch the video on the web, for now, but you still get notified on mobile apps that it exists.
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50% ads are coming around 1 Sept 2023.
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Of course I wasn't saying to buy it, only being ironic.
To me, value of the paid blue check - on Twitter - is that it's an in-your-face to the Old Blue Checks. (Value on Facebook: none)
Old Twitter's process for blue checks was corrupt. They did extreme favoritism, toward 1) libs, or/and 2) people who would secretly slip a Twitter employee thousand$$.
New Twitter's Blue Check is as democratic & clean as going to the grocery store. Old Blue Checks can't stand it.
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Even people that were fully qualified for the (old) Twitter Blue checkmark were extorted for an average of $13k, which they should have gotten for free.
