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Elon Musk’s Pay-to-Play Strategy Will Make Twitter Clubby- Have Nots Will Suffer
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Elon Musk’s Pay-to-Play Strategy Will Make Twitter Clubby- Have Nots Will Suffer

[ad_1] Elon Musk plan to distinguish users along financial lines will weaken Twitter and increase the divide between between the haves and the have nots. Twitter Inc. is set to charge users $8 per month for the privilege of having the blue-tick honorific put on their account. We know this because Elon Musk said so, one of of many proposals the world's richest man has put forth over the past year aimed at improving the social media platform and its profitability.The key difference is that Musk is now the owner, chairman, and chief executive officer. What he says, goes. Unless he changes his mind, which he's wont to do. Or he's simply joking, which also happens. This feels pretty real, though, given that he's talked about it quite regularly in the past. The point of the blue tick is to ...
Shocking! Elon Musk calls Twitter Blue tick system Bullshit, but prices it at $8pm
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Shocking! Elon Musk calls Twitter Blue tick system Bullshit, but prices it at $8pm

[ad_1] Elon Musk has revealed that the Twitter blue tick verification badge on the platform will cost $8 per month. After days of speculations on whether the blue tick verification badge, a system developed by Twitter to distinguish influential people from fake accounts and pretenders, would become chargeable or not, the Twitter CEO has revealed his plans in a series of tweets confirming that the badge will indeed come at a monthly subscription fee. Some earlier reports had suggested the price to keep the blue tick in future might be as high as $20 (roughly Rs. 1600), Musk has confirmed that it will be kept at a lesser $8 (around Rs. 660). The announcement was received by the netizens with a generally negative reaction, with many stating that this move harms the creators for the platf...