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.

paintbucketholder,

So Elon is now going for the severed horse head under the bedsheets approach to persuade advertisers?

That’s a bold move.

Corran1138,

Is bold the word we’re looking for here? It’s definitely A move.

oneofthemladygoats,

I think it’s more along the lines of the “it’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for 'em” sentiment

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.

Lightor, (edited )

Wait, wait, wait, lemme get this right.

Problem: They were low or revenue.

Response: Increase API costs

Problem: API costs are too high

Response: People started scrapping Twitter

Problem: People are scrapping the site

Response: Make users sign in to view tweets

Problem: People have to sign in to see any ads too

Response: Tell companies that if they don’t spend enough on ads they will lose verification.

I mean, what’s next?

Dark_Blade,
@Dark_Blade@lemmy.world avatar

Problem: Brands start leaving Twitter

Solution: Increase the price of Twitter Blue

ComeHereOrIHookYou,
@ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world avatar

Problem: Decrease of Twitter Blue subscribers

Solution: Sue every other competitor for alleged infringing Twitter’s trade secrets

WarmSoda,

He even sued the attorneys for twitters previous board members because they sold the company to him.

I don’t know how that one slipped under the radar.

tanisnikana,

wait wait wait, lemmy get this right

The pun was there the whole time!

ffolkes,
@ffolkes@fanexus.com avatar

“The pun is coming from inside the building!”

lolcatnip,

I wish they were scrapping it, as opposed to scraping it.

Lightor,

Me too, I’ll say it was wishful thinking and not a typo by me at all.

FourPacketsOfPeanuts,

What’s next is Elon standing at a red light holding a piece of cardboard telling you to buy Twitter Blue or he’ll key your car

BNE,
@BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It’s called X blue now. Because that’s the colour of the… oh.

JesusTheCarpenter,

Problem: …

Response: Obliterate one of the most established logos and a verb “to tweet”

TwilightVulpine,

Problem: My ego still hurts from not getting to use that single letter domain I got 20 years ago.

CitizenKong,

People wanting a blue checkmark must own a Tesla.

Mdotaut801,

I mean I would but they’re all getting recalled :(. Jk. I’d never buy one of those shit boxes.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

But I don’t know why she swallowed the fly
Perhaps she’ll die

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Shut up and swallow another live mongoose.

httpjames,
@httpjames@sh.itjust.works avatar

They keep moving the goal post

socalledrates,

UI

another musk article

Boiglenoight,

Getting low on popcorn…

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Send a tweet out to Orville Redenbacher.

ClopClopMcFuckwad,
@ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world avatar

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  • Kolanaki,
    @Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

    But that’s stupid and I’m not calling them that.

    WarmSoda,

    The whole thing is stupid

    SkaveRat,

    x-cretions

    Seasoned_Greetings,

    Oh, like a little kiss

    PopularUsername,

    No, ex as in former sexual partners, because you aren’t doing them any more.

    Cethin,

    Elon should have x’ed some questions before making such a stupid decision. Who’s going to use that? I have a feeling some people will just stop even talking about the platform or anything that happens on it when it sounds so dumb to talk about.

    Raxiel,

    Xcretions

    krakenx,

    I want this to catch on so much.

    FourPacketsOfPeanuts,

    Have you tried demanding $1000 of popcorn or you’ll stop eating?

    Boiglenoight,

    I have not. Given the likelihood of getting what I’m asking for, might be a means of losing weight.

    SpringMango7379,
    @SpringMango7379@lemmy.world avatar

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

    kworpy,

    The fuck is this meant to do? Will Elon ever realize that he’s not improving Twitter in any way and is only making it worse?

    mayo,
    @mayo@lemmy.world avatar

    Hahaha

    popemichael,
    @popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    What’s he Musking up again?

    Demanding $1000 a month from bands is kinda dumb.

    Weirdfish,

    I like Musking as a verb.

    Asafum,

    Musking: being a billionaire and therefore believing everything you do is genius while simultaneously ruining everything you touch. Buying your way into brands and calling yourself the founder.

    Occasionally someone “Musking” might also call people they don’t like a pedophile.

    MortyMcFry,
    @MortyMcFry@aussie.zone avatar

    Stop using twitter. They don’t get to have the brand recognition anymore.

    Megabones,

    Stop calling it twitter as well, twitter is dead and X marks its grave

    MortyMcFry,
    @MortyMcFry@aussie.zone avatar

    Yes stop letting them use the brand recognition.

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

    It’s the Brand X social media site.

    Grant_M,
    @Grant_M@lemmy.ca avatar

    All legitimate companies have already left twitler

    moosetwin,

    Enshittification Stage 3.

    nbafantest,

    This isn’t even enshittification. This is just trash ownership

    sirnak,

    This look more and more like a speedrun on how to bring down a well established platform in under a year.

    FourPacketsOfPeanuts,

    Like a real life Brewster’s Billions

    Jocker,

    Just shut it down already

    at_an_angle,
    @at_an_angle@lemmy.one avatar

    No. I love watching train wrecks and dumpster fires.

    TwilightVulpine,

    I feel for the creators still trying to figure out where to go, but this situation is funny as hell.

    Like when people said Elon Musk renamed the platform after his divorcees

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