after taking control twitterElon Musk announced a very important change: social network would continue to promote its paid version, Twitter Blue, to try to catch new channels. income. The businessman’s plan doesn’t seem to be going well.
If your Twitter account has a blue verification pin, it will disappear on Saturday, April 1st. The only way to maintain this will be to pay 11 euros per month. Under the management of the controversial businessman, the brand ceased to be a mechanism to distinguish consumers. fake accounts to become a status symbol that can be purchased from the originals. As of April 15, the platform will only promote messages from subscribed users.
Musk justified this controversial measure by assuring that it was “the only realistic way to approach swarm control.”bootsArtificial Intelligence interfering with the network through automatically generated content.” But penalizing regular users and prioritizing logging out doesn’t seem to solve this problem.
pay without followers
New data published by the researcher Travis Brown Collected by the American digital medium “Mashable”, he suggests Twitter will have around 475,000 paying subscribers, which is less than 0.2% of the platform’s 254 million daily active users.
A little less than half of these (about 220,132) less than 1,000 followers. 17.6% of these users (around 78,059) have less than 100 followers. Worse still, there are about 2,270 payment accounts on the social network that do not have a single follower.
Brown doesn’t have direct access to Twitter’s internal data, but he claims he can. 85% to 90% of real paying users. “This methodology has proven to be very accurate when Twitter Blue subscriber numbers have been leaked before,” says Mashable.
According to Brown’s data, only 6,482 420,000 accounts these were already verified before Musk paid to subscribe to Twitter Blue—a decision made based on public relevance criteria.