So anyone (who pays the $8 per month) with a Twitter Blue subscription automagically get the ‘verified’ (blue checkmark) badge and we saw how well that is working with several people getting their accounts banned over the weekend for impersonating Elon Musk with their own ‘verified’ Twitter accounts. To combat this (and to add even more confusion) Twitter is going to roll out (after the US mid term elections are over) an ‘Official’ Badge from some ‘High Profile’ accounts. “Not all previously verified accounts will get the ‘Official’ label and the label is not available for purchase,” explained product manager Esther…
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While the new Twitter Blue is looking to roll-out as planed on Monday, November 7th, Verification Badges will not. At least not until after this coming Tuesday’s US Mid-term elections. The delay could possibly be longer if there ends up being a need for any special run-offs. The reported move to delay the rollout of verification badges comes just days before the U.S. midterm elections, with polls closing on November 8. The New York Times reports that the move was aimed at limiting the potential fallout of verified users impersonating political or other government figures, such as President Biden, or news outlets…
It appears Chief Twit’s demands for the new Twitter Blue to be launched on Monday, November 7th are happening (sort of) . There has been some pre-launch testing happening on iOS. This testing has confirmed the new $7.99 USD price for Twitter Blue with the blue verification badge (or more like paid status symbol), however some of the other mentioned features are still ‘coming soon’. According to an in-app iOS notification viewed by TechCrunch, the upgraded Twitter Blue, starting at $7.99 per month, will add the blue verification checkmark previously reserved for accounts that applied through Twitter’s free verification process. Other…
Elon Musk is trying anything and everything to get the money coming back in to Twitter. He keeps pushing the new Twitter Blue model launching on Monday, November 7th. The new $8 USD (other countries based on their purchasing power) plan is to include verification (which means anyone who pays the monthly fee gets the verification badge even if they don’t need it), plus slew of other ‘features’ (but not ad-free content). Instead of creating the town square where important public discourse is freely debated (which Musk claimed was his Twitter vision), he’s now making moves to potentially skew discussions…
Even before Elon Musk aka Chief Twit finally purchased Twitter last week, there has been fear of massive layoffs. Initially the first reports were around 75%,of Twitter’s employees would be let go. Then that number had dropped to around 25%. Many had hinted the layoffs regardless of how big, would happened on Monday, October 31st as November 1st was the cut-off date for employees to remain eligible to receive their year-end Stock (Grant) Compensation. So far only a handful of employees are no longer with the company and those were from the executive team. Chief Twit did fire the previous…
…and not just for Twitter Blue subscribers, but everyone. The new Twitter Blue is expected to be live by November 7th (the date Musk is demanding or those employees responsible would be out of a job). The new Twitter Blue was initially going to be $19.99 per month. However, after a Twitter exchange with American Author Stephen King on Tuesday, Musk may drop the price for the new Twitter Blue to $8 USD (and pricing in other countries based on ‘their spending power’) per month. Twitter Blue is suppose to include several other features (ad-free content is not one of…
Chief Twit (Elon Musk) is now suggesting the price of the premium Twitter Blue subscription could be $8 USD (the cost outside the US will be adjusted for the purchasing power of consumers in those markets) which is down for the $19.99 a month he had mentioned yesterday. However, he is still holding firm that a Twitter Blue subscription is going to be required for verification (something that prior to his merger/take-over was free). At the same time, Twitter plans to add new perks to the service. As a subscriber, you’ll see fewer ads and have the ability to post…
The day after Chief Twit (Elon Musk) announced new radical changes for Twitter Blue ($19.99 a month fee and ‘verification badge’) by November 7th comes word the service may soon stop offering Ad-Free content. When Twitter Blue began rolling out in the US last fall, the company positioned ad-free articles as one of the main reasons to subscribe. A little more than a year later, it looks like Twitter will discontinue that feature. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company plans to stop offering Twitter Blue customers the ability to access ad-free articles from publishers. The Journal did not state how soon Twitter…
This year-end employee benefit sheds a very bright light as to why Musk is in such a hurry to get the lay-offs done. As reported last week: The forthcoming layoffs are likely to occur before November 1st. The timing may give Musk the opportunity to avoid paying out stock grants to outgoing workers. According to The Times, such payouts “typically represent a significant portion” of an employee’s pay. The New York Times report this weekend he plans to lay off employees before Tuesday, November 1, thus cutting staff off from receiving stock grants as part of their compensation. In response to…
Days after Elon Musk (aka Chief Twit) took over Twitter, he is making big and not so popular opinion plans. Though much like everything else involving him and Twitter this could (and hopefully will) change. Now he wants to raise the monthly subscbrtion fee for the Twitter Blue and also have the service include a verification badge. $20 sounds like a lot of money just to get a verified badge and many folks like Kara Swisher are not ready to pay that amount. A poll by investor Jason Calacanis — to which Musk replied “interesting” — also has a majority of the people saying…