the site will permanently suspend users who attempt to impersonate others, unless the speech is clearly marked as parody.A prominent line of criticism over the plan stems from its implications for hateful or false content on the platform, since users can attain verification and change their usernames to appear as others., which affected employees who work in content moderation, have raised concerns over Twitter's capacity and willingness to police users.
Meanwhile, in protest of the impersonation risks posed by the new subscription service, high-profile users like comedian Kathy Griffin over the weekend changed their usernames to "Elon Musk." Griffin was suspended from Twitter and remained off the platform as of Tuesday afternoon.Griffin could regain access to her account by joining the revamped subscription service, but it was unclear if the offer was sincere.
"At Twitter, there's been a long standing disparity between what Twitter says a check mark is for: Authenticity," Steiner told ABC News. "And what people interpret it as: Authority."Musk, who said he overpaid for the platform at the purchasing price of $44 billion, faces pressure to boost the company's revenue. Last week, hethat the company is losing $4 million each day.
For perspective, Twitter earned about $5 billion in revenue last year, the vast majority of which derived from advertising on the site. The platform, meanwhile, announced in July that it boasts nearly 240 million daily active users.If 10% of those users sign up for the new subscription service, the move would generate nearly $2.5 billion, half of the revenue the company brought in last year.
"What Musk is proposing, on the one hand, has the potential to jumpstart subscription revenues," Kessler told ABC News. "The flip side is: What Musk is doing here is going to cause users to leave the platform and advertisers will go with them. We're already seeing some of that come into play."
Why do I always have to look at a profile picture of this dishonest, unkind, or unpleasant person.
Why would anyone trust ABC to report honestly?
I'm verified now you owe me eight bucks
Y’all worked all your life and y’all letting this Mofo define you with a color blue or gray checkmark? 🙄🥃 That blue checkmark cost some of y’all lots of money and you got nothing on the return from the blue checkmark! People wake up!
elonmusk 😊
It’s the dumbest idea since crystal clear Pepsi.
I’m loving it! I’m thinking of bringing Trump back myself with my very own verified account
Well first off I live in the United States let’s start there elonmusk Twitter Blue
What a disaster.
Only thing I want to know is why ElonMusk is palling around with a sex trafficking rapist?
Arrest Elon Musk and other republicans and redistribute their assets to POC and Trans people
The majority of people are happy with the new Twitter blue, its only fake news like you who criticize it. Because it take away the self proclaimed credibility you guys have given to yourself by that checkmark. Now everyone is same as elonmusk said power to the people
Pay for reach of speech which is pretty similar to freedom of speech. It’s a delight for propaganda merchants, that’s for sure.
Better yet, just switch to Mastadon. The journalists and professors have flooded the site over the past few days. It’s very pleasant there :)
Maybe 8 dogecoin
All the fake verified accounts lol only way to get traction on your dead account.
I wonder why people are criticizing it?
elonmusk Make it $12 dollars.
It won’t!
Democrat voters are more concerned that celebrities have to pay $8 for Twitter than normal people having to pay for food and gas
I actually paid 4.99 as an early adopter.
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