Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification

Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying that the account belongs to a verified brand.

Threatening to remove verified checkmarks is a risky move given how many ‘Twitter alternative’ services like Threads and Bluesky are cropping up and how willing consumers appear to be to jump ship, with Threads rocketing to 100 million registrations in just five days. That said, it’s not like other efforts to drum up some additional cash, like increasing API pricing, have gone down especially well, either. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton — let’s see if it pays off for him.

SpringMango7379,
@SpringMango7379@lemmy.world avatar

Every day I think the dumpster fire can’t get any bigger and every day I’m proven wrong.

socalledrates,

UI

another musk article

httpjames,
@httpjames@sh.itjust.works avatar

They keep moving the goal post

harbo,

I miss what Twitter used to be

elbarto777,

I liked the idea of twitter until the time news outlets started quoting random tweets in their articles.

AbidanYre, (edited )

I remember back in like '08 or '09 the TV in the cafeteria at work was playing CNN and they literally had a camera pointed at a computer monitor scrolling Twitter, discussing what people on Twitter were saying.

That’s when I knew journalism was dead.

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

A desperate ploy to repay the insatiable debt frin the purchase, or genius business move? You decide.

gsa32,

That’ll bring your advertisers back

dinckelman,

If I were a business that is under threat of this, my response would be “ok.”. No business that actually cares about its image should promote on a website that’s filled to the brim with bigots and nazis

xc2215x,

Of course Elon would do this.

ArugulaZ,
@ArugulaZ@kbin.social avatar

Risky? More like suicidal. The Twitter brand hasn't so much been tarnished as blown to pieces by Elon Musk. If he thinks he's in a position to make demands of advertisers, when advertisers are already in life rafts heading for the shoreline, well, good luck with that. Have that band you're not paying play you off, because you're going down with the ship, and the advertisers aren't going with you.

ArugulaZ,
@ArugulaZ@kbin.social avatar

Twitter (ahem) "X" lost half its advertisers already. I don't think the site has the leverage to make such demands. If anything, it's going to push advertisers into the welcoming robot arms of Mark III Zuckerberg and Threads.

Gyella,

Twitter is still a thing? Color me surprised. It won’t be much longer.

Also, FUCK Elon Musky

DarkThoughts,

I'm no businessman but this sounds like a good way to make companies move away from your platform.

foofiepie,

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Repeat.

bdiddy,

Brands that don’t buy enough X adds you mean

thunderclap,

Bully much?

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