charge businesses and organizations $1,000 per month
, including nonprofits and governments, to retain their verified status. In addition, the company will levy a $50 monthly charge for each affiliate subaccount . But apparently not all organizations will have to pay Musk for the privilege. Twitter will waive the $1,000 monthly fee for its 500 largest advertising clients and for the 10,000 most-followed brands, companies and organizations that have been previously verified, the New York TimesThe most-followed companies, brands and organizations on Twitter include @Twitter itself, as well as YouTube, NASA, CNN, ESPN, the New York Times, the NBA and the BBC’s breaking news account.
A request for comment sent to Twitter’s PR account returned an automated reply with a poop emoji (a change Musk
Let's go to tumblr
Always protecting the richest. It's nice
So, some companies are getting the pass because of bias. Terrible move.
Except nytimes?
This was wrong lol
April Fools :)
Elmo's a joke.
🤣🤡🤣
What the situation is such bad that even 1K $ is not affordable for Fortune 500 organisation 🧐
Lmao so the race to create the most bot accounts to follow the 10k companies begins! I wonder who will be able to create and maintain the most bot accounts? 🤔
hasanthehun that's why
So, free for those most able to pay. Sounds right. Are you a small non profit? Sucks to be you, but Amazon gets its free check
travisbrown any idea how many followers the 10,000th largest company has?
How many Ls does it take til you get to the center of the UHHNNNN UNNNNNN
1000 dollar sebulan. Wow
They get blocked out of principle then. Blue checks have become a sign of toxicity.
Figures
My favorite part of this story is when the head of the FTC tells Elmo to piss off
lmao just keeps making shit up every day
I thought he was going to resign?
Because the companies that can afford to pay their bill can't afford another stock crash by a verified tweet from a look alike.
Exempting the 10 000 accounts and orgs which have most motivation to buy twitter blue sure seems like a good way to get even worse sales of twitter blue. Elmo, you promised to step down. Step down. Turn the company over to an adult.
More backpedaling from Musk I see
Musk has the world's biggest humiliation kink. It's the only explanation.
as per usual. rich get a free ride.. poors have to pay.
Legacy verified accounts can get notable user status at Waitlist is open now
This is another example of how fascist elonmusk is playing king with the Twitter platform. Elmo will NOT exempt journalists, scientists, educators and legacy news organizations. ElonIsDestroyingTwitter verified AP pressfreedom washingtonpost mmfa nytimes spj_tweets
Lmaoooo
Starting to feel like the 2nd hour of a timeshare prisontation.
i thought it was 8$ a month
'He's a genius'
'Public town square,' but now the richest and most popular don't have to pay to be heard, while the lessers do. Hilarious.
$1000 a month
So ... extortion doesn't always work? Got it.
Dude just can't get out of his own way.....
Elon is really bad at Twitter.
Charging smaller companies more seems very Musk
Wishy-washy. Indecisive. Weathervane.
But didn't the clown claim that removing the legacy checkmark was about equality 😆😆😆
Someone read The Art of the Deal!
Lol so nobody paid. Another swing and miss for Elon.
missing out on $120,000,000 per year is what shareholders really want to see
I thought we were getting rid of the Lords and Peasants system, not increasing it
EM: Saving Starbucks $10,000 a year for a verified icon. Also EM: Removing API access from LastQuake, NGOs, researchers, high volume accessibility bots, etc... unless they pay $42k a month.
ahahahahahahahaha noboy wants elanors shitty verification
Hahahahah brilliant! Cause if they left Twitter would fold. It’s genius actually.
Lol
the backpedal-mobile is at its very limits
hahaha he's already backtracking has there been one single good idea?
Elno’s a coward. Bluffed… lost.
rich people and companies will not have to pay. only poor people and small companies. free speech equality whatever 💩
elonmusk didn’t you tell WilliamShatner everyone is to be treated equally here? What about these 10 000 companies? 😂🤷♂️
Richest man in the world helps out rich companies
Concerning
That's weird because I thought he said something about fairness and not privileging celebrity or whatever 🤔
That's $120,000,000 a year he was planning to extort.
Lol
Don’t care. Still blocking you.
This couldn’t get any worse unless they locked the doors to Twitter with Elon inside and within a month he’ll regress into a JG Ballard character
“We’re good thanks, but no thanks”
He paid FORTY FOUR BILLION DOLLARS to be in charge of this disaster.
FREE STUFF FOR RICH PEOPLE Wow surprised no one thought of this before 🤔 Wait that's just capitalism...
Doesn't matter. Won't follow anyone or anything with a blue check mark after this is implemented.
Because no one will pay
Why does Elmo hate small business? What a hero.
Cost to Unilever: zero Cost to an NGO that uses Twitter to ask for donations to build clean water wells in Africa: $12,000/year
na minha casa nós pregamos o ódio ao elon musk, amém
eclecticbrotha Lol
He caved so fast it's both sad and funny
So I suppose Elon realized he's fucking himself over.
Of course, because we still need capitalist propaganda in our feeds to keep up this fancy third world country of ours where it’s easier to walk into a Walmart and buy an AR 15 then it is for my kid to go to school and not get shot
I would love it if the top 10,000 companies refused the free verification and were just like “nah, we good” and remained check-free
Bots away!
lolololooolololol
It just gets worse every day lol
There goes a potential 10 million in revenue a month. Elon is so good at business
This is just a strategic way of leaving some mystique around the blue check, so all the hustle bro assholes will have a reason to pay for it.
What if the company itself isn't most followed, but one of their stars is? Like what if barstoolsports had fewer followers that PFTCommenter do they get the exemption or what So ridiculous
DPMCanty I mean, no one was going to pay it anyway. 🤷🏼♀️
if you drop out of the top 10k will you lose verification to whomever took your spot? there should be a leaderboard
So effectively cutting out smaller/independent/nonprofit organizations only. How about that freedom.
lol, why isn't he farming the companies that can afford the 1k dollar without noticing? He probably won't get much from the smaller companies, who most certainly can't afford this and now have to battle impersonation. This shit makes no sense what so ever.
Nice save lmao
Striking works.
Follow through is great
That make’s literally zero sense 🤦♂️
For a guy supposedly really hard up for cash that doesn't come out of his own wallet, he sure is quick to refuse what could be up to $120 million/year
If lots of organizations had actually chosen to pay the cost, they would not have exempted them. Backtracking already...
elonmusk double standard?
M: You will pay us!! everybody : ... NO M: ok, yeah, you're right. sorry I asked. 😬😬
Giving the richest people free stuff? This is why we are doomed. Drag them through the streets please.
How did anyone ever believe Elon had even an iota of intelligence?
Not exactly equality elonmusk now is it ?
Tossing shit at the wall daily.
wongmjane This seems unfair.
All federal, state, local governments should not pay w/taxpayer funds & just leave & delete their accounts. That includes NASA which has been exempted from paying, for glaringly obvious & corrupt reasons. WhiteHouse
.elonmusk folds like lawn furniture once again
Ah good, so encouraging companies to pay for bot followers.
Elon negotiating his rollouts with users:
And the GOP propoganda machine again forgetting to tell their base America Great is only for the rich.
Musk thought he could publicly insult some of the most visible powerful companies on earth and then extort them for thousands of dollars a couple weeks later
So… socialism for the wealthy…
The 10,001st most followed company
so losing $10M a month then, gotcha
Well, this seems likely to drive away small businesses.
Lol. It’s a race to get more followers, now! 😂 Not all big brands have a large following, but they also can afford it. If the account is active and has personality in their tweets then…big following. Small companies can do this! 💪
exempting the most profitable businesses? the ones that can most easily afford the fee? hello?
In other words, please please please stay.
👀
Corporations: 'We're not going to pay for your stupid Twitter Blue scam.' Twitter: 'Very well then, you are exempt from paying. Hah, now you have to keep the blue checkmark whether you want it or not!'
On the bright side, at the rate things are going, there will soon be fewer than ten thousand companies left here, and then they'll all get it for free!
Because they can't afford it? Nope. Because they won't pay and it would hurt Twitter and embarrass Elon when they left? Yep. So. Much. Winning. It's free casino chips night on the Titanic!
Sounds feudal to me 😂
The tragedy of Elon Musk is he inherited a toxic brew of wealth, narcissism and male pattern baldness, meaning that the world is doomed to hear about his endless failed attempts at buying self esteem.
I wonder if Disney is now off that list?
Lmao
Companies and organisations that probably least-need the reduction in fees get a reduction in fees... OK. 1,000/month seems high for small organisations. Anyway, whole point of verification is that we know people/orgs are who they say they are, not that they have deep pockets.
Wasn’t Elon Musk supposed to be some genius businessman 😂
Even the backpedaling is backwards and stupid.
So the richest companies that are best able to pay $1000 per month are exempt but small mom and pops and charities are expected to find the money.
What a joke…
lmao they realized the big accounts running around without checks was a bad look.
So let go of $120,000,000 a year for..... reasons? When the company is already in overwhelming debt and not making a profit.
Pathetic
Hi TwitterSupport, can we keep our verification badge? Not sure if we are among the 10,000 most-followed nonprofit/public benefit organizations on here, and our advertising budget would not be able to cover a $1,000 per month expense.
He totally watched a TikTok about anchoring and maybe priming too and just tried to wing it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's a gigantic backpedal
I block every advertisement . At sime point I will get to the bottom
Elon lost again. 🤣🤣🤣
Love to do free market libertarianism.
Isn't this exactly the old blue tick system - based on prominence and importance?
ELRON’S version of “fair”: only the biggest and most successful should get a free ride. 🙄🤦🏼♂️😂🤷♂️
The network effect is back in fashion at Bird Central.
nytimes led the charge by announced they would not pay.
I'm sure this has nothing at all to do with this:
Only excludes the ones that can realistically afford to pay it. Genius move.
lmao
lukeobrien Elitism by Twitter.
So the ones that can most afford it, won’t have to pay. What a genius that Elmo is
lol
This after several large companies had already announced, on Twitter, that they weren't going to pay.
LOL
Hahahahaha
Shocking…another snap decision by Emerald Boy The Impulsive gets rolled back
Doesn't matter. Won't follow anyone or anything with a blue check mark after this is emplemented.
Meaning the ones who pay for ads? Or the ones that most suck up to elmo?
So one out of every four.
oh. so those that can afford it don't have to pay. COOOOOL. this is a great company, elonmusk. you're doing a hell of a job.
Lol
hahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahha get fucked muskrat boy
So only small mom and pop business will be charged $1000/month?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wait so... the corporations and journalists get free verification, and everyone else has to pay? Isn't this just old twitter but worse?
Yet another of Elon’s brilliant ideas being backpedaled because reality came around and smacked Twitter in the face!
a check mark, but only if your organization pays $1000 per month, unless that org happens to be among the most successful and able to pay, then they don’t have to
Watching Musk learn, the hard way, that all of his bad ideas are ... well ... bad ideas, used to be funny. Now it is just sad.
Dumb replies. If this is even true, the exempted orgs rarely generate impressions on here, and won't be getting affiliate verification access or other Blue perks. Also yes Elon's still treating all individuals the same.
Twitter only wants to charge small businesses
'A request for comment sent to Twitter’s PR account returned an automated reply with a poop emoji' How is this real life
Sounds like a terrible idea! On brand.
🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahaha
What if a personal files as a corporation
setdaSTANDARDS 🤣😂🤣
Elons extortion is Crumbling.
lmao this is an incentive for companies to buy more bot followers since it’ll be cheaper than paying full price
The guys that can actually pay for it are exempt, wow. Something that he could bill them x7 and offer them stupidly crazy presence on the app so they wouldn't need to pay for marketing but rather pay a subscription to assess his users. Building a mad ad structure.
Looks like the South African has a glass jaw. Goes down early.
leesgirl9
Woke business schools would say you should charge your richest customers to use your service but that’s why this is a brilliant gambit actually ☝️
The top 10,000 followed would be the ones most likely pay for the subscription.
Is he afraid of feline feces or real accounts, like Stephen King and Mark Hamil?
Breaking: Twitter to Have Exactly 10,000 Verified Companies and Organizations.
Does anyone else think this sounds suspiciously like the kind of tax plan that Elon would vociferously support?
Let's see if these exempted brands change their advertising posture re: Twitter.
What utter bullshit. See, folks How easy it is? For the rich and powerful to keep their riches and power? It’s handed to them. Repeatedly. Because we can’t make those folks mad. The poor, the less affluent? We need them to patronize our companies but care about them? 🤔
“Everyone has to pay their share! No whining! No complaining! It’s being implemented across the board equally! No exceptions! Except for the 10,000 biggest accounts!”
Hahahahaha!
Twitter making the little guy pay and leaving the big guys exempt. Is this that even playing field elonmusk?
For the people confused why he is doing it for the most followed...it's because if these accounts refuse to have the gold/blue check marks. No one will care or want one. The value of the Twitter Blue would cease to exist.
He has literally no clue what he's doing and he's taking advice from the stupidest people on Earth.
Elon is so bad at this.
$1000/month? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ReplyGPT
lol
Best businessman on the planet baby awooo
So much damage will be caused by people impersonating businesses that this starts to seem like a shakedown. (“Nice reputation you’ve got there, would be a shame if someone impersonated you.”)
just flailing around, making snap decisions based on vibes, then backpedalling furiously once it becomes apparent how much he fucked up...
How will this make more money vs returning to the old verification system and charging for blue checks? Not only that, but the only ones who can afford the $1000 a month are being given it for free. Makes no sense.
YOU get a free blue check mark! YOU get a free blue check mark! And YOU get a free blue check mark!
No shit
This sites gonna implode on itself.
Rofl the backpedaling continues
.elonmusk just silenced all local charities and small churches - none of which could ever afford to pay his $12,000 reputation-protection racket demands.
Free to those who can afford it
lmao it sucks here
Lol. What's the point then? Starting to think this Elon fellow isn't a very good businessman.
Wait what? $1000? I’m clueless …
don't like it start your own twitter
Lol hilarious because these companies were already telling Musk to fuck off
FORGOT TO MENTION
Talk about a textbook example of how not to run a company
cool so just the less followed ones will have to pay, like my local council, library, police force, fire service, hospitals etc. makes sense
Elon: 'this blue checkmark now costs one beeeellion dollars' Elon's supposed customers: 'too much, bye' Elon: 'wait wait, I was just kidding, YOU guys don't have to pay anything!'
Because they weren’t paying for it anyway
Elon sees the value of twitter as a game. Get as many likes, rt’s and followers as you can. He has never understood its value. He’s a just gamer and twitter is his gaming platform. He’ll try to arrange the board to keep folks playing with him but he’ll never get new players.
kelly_knox lol, all this work just to make less money than the previous guy, and it's not even close. Elon will NEVER make money with Twitter as long as he has any say what happens in the company, and I'm here for it
So he’ll give his best friends one million bot followers so they don’t have to pay. Great plan. 🙄
wow if only there was some sort of verified program that elon could use to determine eligibility for this
That's a funny way to phrase, 'The 10000 most followed companies and organizations refused to pay $1000.'
haciendomovidas 😱😅😂
Seems preferential, choosy and like the whole thing is a stupid business killing idea
It’s like 1 step forward and 3 steps back with these new Twitter changes. The owner sucks at this
Jesus christ elon
So, Elmo is instituting a “rich get richer” policy. Not exactly a level playing field.
Rofl
Just winging it lol
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bestofdyingtwit
Ah so the ones that can most likely afford it don't have to pay, got it. genius ithink?
Excellent gambit, sir
does individual celebrities not included on the top 10k? So their verified tag will still be blue?
Remember when ElonMusk decided not to buy twitter because he was worried about all the fake accounts?
Hahah.... make that 20 thousand... no make that 30 thousand... no make that 40 thousand.