Twitter Blue for $8/Month

Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month by tommica on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:38PM (#33427898)

I guess I am an outlier in this, but I don't think I have a single "famous" person that I follow - maybe some bigger figures in a niche area, but the people that have the blue mark are not the draw for me.

But when I do search for them, it is convenient to see the blue mark to figure out what might be the account I am looking for.

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Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month by encryptluks2 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:37PM (#33428647)

I don't think it is convenient. These people have a website or verified profile on Google to already determine which social media profiles belong to them. All the blue checkmark will tell me in the future is these people are dumb enough to pay for snake oil.

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Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month by dangerboysteve on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:40PM (#33427936)

I don't follow famous people. Way too much noise. I follow dev and engineering stuff.

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Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month by sangnoir on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:15PM (#33429093)

> Way too much noise. I follow dev and engineering stuff

Now imagine the people you follow being deprioritized by the Twitter algorithm in favor of the LinkedIn-influencer types (you know they'll be first in line for the checkmarks)

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Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month by seanp2k2 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:10PM (#33429044)

>the blue mark to figure out what might be the account I am looking for

If this is part of what blue checks were designed to solve, they're solving the wrong problem. Fix search and content quality / spam instead.

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