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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by XorNot on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:48AM (#31154641)
Who is going to pay? There's at most a few tens of thousands of people who care about their identity being verified on Twitter (because they're journalists, company leaders, politicians). How much is Twitter worth to those people? Probably not $10,000 per year, so we're talking about a very limited additional revenue source.

For a lot of other people on Twitter, the pseudo-anonymity is a feature not a bug.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dd36 on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:53AM (#31154745)
WhatsApp charged a few dollars a year and did fine.

I’d pay if it allowed me to filter out garbage.

It’s like paying for the removal of commercials.

I don’t believe Musk intends to require people to be publicly identified.

I don’t believe I follow anyone anonymous on Twitter.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by qwytw on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:30AM (#31155350)
Twitter has over 7000 employees, for WhatsApp's business model to work they'd need to cut this by 10x or so and there is no way they justify the 45 billion valuation if they do that.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dd36 on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:00AM (#31155817)
Huh? I’m not following. Why would this hurt revenue?

Authenticated real people are more valuable to advertisers.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by yywwbbn on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:53AM (#31156631)
Did WhatsApp have Ads? I thought all their income was from subscriptions?

If it’s only for verification they, yeah, they might be fine as long as the verification fee is optional.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dd36 on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:03PM (#31157694)
I do not believe they are literally applying the WhatsApp model. The point was that small amounts of money are tolerable in a network effect.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by Bud on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:25AM (#31156201)
Remember for a moment that we live in a world where people drop $20 for a virtual Sword of Wounding +4. Often more than monthly in a single game.

A few bucks a month is nothing these days for dedicated netizens who want their social drug of choice.

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