Would You Pay $4.99 a Month For a Verified ID Twitter Account?

Regular accounts will not be charged because they are Twitter’s Product. Twitter attracts and retains those participants and makes those eyes available to those who are trying to sell something. Verified accounts would pay more than $20 per month because they want access to Twitter’s Product.

I think Musk went into this with a “can’t lose” perspective. On the one hand, I do not think he wanted to buy it. I think he simply wanted to expose it and then let it die. Perhaps he could then spend $5 billion on a new ground-up much better replacement, thus saving 90% of what he just spent. But when he could not get out of the deal he knew he had to monetize The Product better and that people would complain and then comply. Is this really that different than when Youtube made those who do not pay the monthly fee watch ads? I was thrilled that I could have access to the knowledge of humanity for just $10 per month ad-free. I would pay double that if needed because I do a lot of projects and YouTube is my goto source for howto information.

One more thing. Can someone please tell me why so many people hate the most productive man of this century so much? Stupid comments like “I don’t want to give Elon money” abound and I just don’t get it. Musk has created many thousands of excellent paying jobs. He has made it easy for one person to start a small business and collect subscription fees (paypal works great for this). He is the true founder of the global electric car industry. Everyone before him was a hobbyist in this field who created punishment cars for the austerity minded. He has embarrassed NASA by building reusable boosters that land where they lifted off from without requiring payment from the public to do so. Starlink is bringing reasonable cost Internet to the whole world, now including those living in mobile RVs and even boats. His Boring Company threatens to revolutionize multilayer traffic in cities. His solar storage solutions have helped MANY people around the world. Remember when rural S. Australia was having all kinds of electrical grid issues and then Musk said I can fix that in like 2 months, and he did? We have not heard a peep about that since. Nobody saying, “congrats Elon for helping all those people out of their nightmare”. His solar roof tiles are still too expensive but might make sense for people who were going to replace the roof anyway. As electricity costs go up, they will make more and more economic sense. And now Musk is only a couple years away from delivering a home robot, Optimus. Again, everything before Musk, who is a man for the people, was either military grade that nobody could afford (Boston Dynamics) or some kind of an overpriced cutsie toy. But you can bet that when Musk delivers something it will have real utility for people.

Everything he does he does for the good of mankind. So why does everyone hate him so much? Mean tweets like trump? Taskmaster like Steve Jobs? What is the basis of all this hate?

“One way to easily get rid of the bots and fake accounts is to charge for accounts.”

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Sure. And let’s charge to send email also. A decades old proposal I and others have repeatedly made is that spam email could be virtually eliminated if it cost say 1 penny to send an email. The first 50 emails (or whatever number) a month would be free. The same could be done with texts.

Odds of this happening? So far, ZERO.

Same odds of Twitter charging for regular accounts.

YES. all the macro accounts that give investment ideas and macro trends are a total steal for $5 month, even $20 a month. (I canceled my account after JPB and J. Lindsay were banned)

I don’t use FB or Twitter, last Social media I was on was MySpace, after AOL dissolved.

To Social media in general, I specifically didn’t join Facebook because of the way Zuckerberg treated personal privacy while operating a Social network at Harvard, my instinct was correct.

Just last year, I was at a friend’s home, she was talking about maybe buying an RV, a half hour later she looked at her phone and there were RV ads, we then learned that the FB app listens to room conversations through the microphone to target ads.

I truly don’t understand why this doesn’t outrage people, they’re eavesdropping, literally.

Beyond that, forcing members to verify their identity does have an appeal where anonymous trolls can mass spam lies or propaganda and you have no way to know who they are or what country they live in.

But then, if I verify my ID, that then means advertisers know exactly who I am.

So, no, I wouldn’t pay $4.99, I won’t join for free, not without the written guarantee that my personal info is protected.

“Would you pay $4.99 a month for Twitter Blue?” reminds me of the long ago advertising slogan “Would you walk a mile for a Camel (cigarette)? For very many people Twitter like tobacco is an addiction that is hard to break. Would you spend the price of one-half a pack of cigarettes per month to feed your habit? Yes I am sure they would.

1- $4.99 for a blue check is not happening unless you are corporate sponsored. I can see a one time fee of .. $10? $20? Or perhaps $4.99/yr. Not per month

2- The solution to bots is to put a reasonable limit on tweets over some time period, whether hour/day/week whatevers. Charge to buy extra tweets and have it the cost increase exponentially.

What would I pay for a revised and cleaned up Twitter? I’d have to see it first and also get reinstated for a fraudulent suspension that they won’t even tell me what it is for, other than the “rules”. But, if I’m satisfied, then probably $10. Or two and a half gallons of gas, some of which I waste because I’m too lazy to walk to the mailbox.

Twitter is a valuable resource to me if done properly. And the $10 would get rid of a lot of the BullShirt that goes on now.

Imagine Twitter with no bots nor spam. It would be an advertiser’s dream and very valuable to them since they will be paying the bills.

Not sure how he will make Twitter an app for everything like Wechat if he lays off 75% of the workforce.

Elon’s ego will get in the way of his success.

Speak to anyone within Tesla and you will hear about unorganized chaos.

With making cars and rockets there are clear goals, with Twitter the goals are not so evident, except to stroke his ego and to have a platform.

I’d say Elon is an idjit for buying Twitter, but I thought Twitter was a stupid idea to begin with. People won’t pay this in any numbers though.

Twitter always reminds me of a bit of poetry I used to see from time to time. It begins:

He who writes on outhouse walls…