Got my popcorn right here...

From 8 to 1000... that's quite the jump.

Twitter Blue was always $1000 for organizations, wasn't it? Only $8 for individuals

Yup technically its free if they spend 1k...they get all the value from the 1k worth of ads plus the gold checkmark

So, this only impacts businesses spending less than $1k on ads? I'm curious what percent accounts, and percent spend, that is. An AM radio ad run will cost you more than that.

The spam in my timeline and likes from obvious bots is magnitudes higher than even a few months ago.

So I’m not sure why advertisers would want to increase spend there

What is with this obsession over bots? If anything, a horde of bots that seem identical to humans could be a good way of artificially boosting metrics, and it's not even illegal because Twitter didn't create or encourage people to create these bots.

It's just an excuse.

My employer was looking into testing advertising on Twitter, and the $1000 cost to entry was a hard stop on that. Seems like a very poor policy.

Thats false, you can spend $20 if you want, you just wont get the gold checkmark

Dang you are super duper passionate about defending twitter.

Maybe parent feels that the optics of being an “unverified” advertiser is about as good as not advertising at all, therefore the de-facto minimum is indeed $1k.

As a third party person who has never had a Twitter account, I don't think someone pointing out something that's easily verified as being false, as stated, is "defending twitter".

How about when they have a 2-year long post history that exclusively pushes back against Twitter and Elon criticism?

I think it's a great policy. Hopefully Elon will raise the price another tenfold or more.

Why?

Presumably to hasten the exodus.

"We'd hate something bad to happen to your business...I'm sure there's a way you can make sure that doesn't happen...". So basically they're adopting the Yelp playbook.

Isn't Twitter the place where your company's ad is likely to be placed next to, for instance, a porn site's ad? Why would anyone want to advertise there these days?

Sounds a lot like a protection racket ...

I noticed today that the X logo is very, very similar to the Xs in Forever 21’s store signage (“XXI Forever”).

https://www.simon.com/mall/northshore-mall/stores/xxi-foreve...

I guess this makes Elon’s company Forever 10? Which kind of tracks...

isnt it a literal unicode character?

Yes it is 𝕏 (U+1D54F, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X)

Just a lame attempt at humor on my part. :)

i guess you can call that… Xtortion

X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month to not have their ads placed next to open anti-Semites, fascists, anti-vax conspiracies, unless Elon Musk posts or retweets them, or decides to not pay the bills.

All this will do is change the spam vector from paid ads injected into your feed, to self-promoting tweets in the comments section, where $8 blue checks get top blling.