drastic changes in twitter They continue to cause problems for their users. This Sunday, company owner Elon Musk would order the removal of the verification badge from ‘The New York Times’ account after his point of sale assured him that he would not pay the new fee. social network.
That same Sunday, Twitter introduced a new policy that would phase it out. check accounts that do not pay for the subscription plan twitter blue, it costs 8 to 11 euros per month. But, the price is much higher for companies that want to continue verification on the platform. The cost varies by country, but in Spain it is 1,149.50 Euros per month.
With this price increase, Musk is desperately looking for new revenue to try to push the price up. business It has been mitigated by Twitter’s decline in investment, particularly by advertisers, accelerated by the advent of code, and pressure to pay off debts.
This weekend, ‘The New York Times’ and other media outlets assured that verified organizations would not pay that much money to protect the gold medal representing their accounts. As the same newspaper went, Twitter’s initial plans were to keep the pins of the 10,000 most popular organizations. With over 55 million followers, ‘The New York Times’ is the 24th most followed account.
Musk retaliation?
According to researcher Travis Brown, this appears to be of no use to the New York setting, which is one of the few to have the badge removed. This decision is a retaliation Responding to a meme on the internet Saturday night, Musk platform “Okay, then we’ll remove it,” he said, pointing to the newspaper’s rejection. He later deleted the comment.
This Sunday, he responded to a user’s comment in a similar way. “We’ll give them a couple of weeks if they don’t say they won’t pay now, in which case we will remove it (the verification password),” he said. Then he deleted that message again.
Direct attacks were less subtle than attacks. multi millionaire The businessman filed a lawsuit against the psychic this Sunday for refusing to be paid for his Twitter subscription. “The real tragedy of The New York Times, propaganda It’s not even interesting,” he cried. “His ‘feed’ is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. Unreadable. If they only published their best articles, they would have a lot more real followers. The same goes for all shipments.”
That’s the myriad of attacks on the media that Musk doesn’t like. Meanwhile, Twitter would already be worth about $20,000 million (18,500 million euros), which is less than half the price the tycoon paid to take control of the company last November.