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ozfive
Got my popcorn right here...
aio2
From 8 to 1000... that's quite the jump.
selbyk
Twitter Blue was always $1000 for organizations, wasn't it? Only $8 for individuals
smotched
Yup technically its free if they spend 1k...they get all the value from the 1k worth of ads plus the gold checkmark
nomel
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.
AndrewKemendo
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

matteoraso
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.
kalleboo
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.
smotched
Thats false, you can spend $20 if you want, you just wont get the gold checkmark
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nomel
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".
seattle_spring
How about when they have a 2-year long post history that exclusively pushes back against Twitter and Elon criticism?
midoridensha
I think it's a great policy. Hopefully Elon will raise the price another tenfold or more.
kjs3
"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.
midoridensha
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?
abrookewood
Sounds a lot like a protection racket ...
anon373839
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...

penjelly
isnt it a literal unicode character?
TechTechTech
Yes it is 𝕏 (U+1D54F, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X)
anon373839
Just a lame attempt at humor on my part. :)
andeee23
i guess you can call that… Xtortion
sillywalk
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.
rchaud
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.