Elon Musk pitches Twitter Blue, including verification, for $8 per month

[iMore.com]

Elon Musk has announced, or at least floated, the idea of charging $8 per month for verification on Twitter. Full story from the iMore Blog...

 

[Wotchered]

If you can buy trust , what is that trust worth ? $8 won’t get you a cab into town.

 

[Lee_Bo]

If I were a popular influencer on Twatter, and $96/year keeps ads off my feed, I’d probably pay it.

But I’m just Mr. Nobody so it ain’t happening.

 

[imwjl]

What a big dumpster fire at so many levels. The whole environment is hardly town square and more amplification for bullies and whiners. The ownership - Musk and Saudis - is to me unsavory. Free and freemium are broken in a lot of ways and places, and I doubt Twitter would have a good life or value if everyone paid a subscription.

Twitter and some forums amplify the problems of a hyper connected/communicating world. If you view it with what you learn in a basic stats class, it is a whole lot of people not so smart growing a snowball of inane stuff.

 

[FFR]

 

[Wotchered]

I wonder if there will prove to be a link between those who are prepared to pay £7/$8 for their blue tick and real subscribers ? Which leaves open to speculation the possibility that there might be those who pay for verification on behalf of “ghost” subscribers,and on their possible motives…
I favour the theory that there is only one actual Twitterer, but who that is,may never be known.