Elon Muskthe richest man in the world (a little less already), and The Rubiusthe Spanish youtuber of reference for many years, have exchanged impressions on the controversial decision that the owner of Twitter has taken: charge 8 dollars for having the account verified.
“To all the complainers, keep complaining, but it will cost $8,” the tycoon warned. One of those who regretted this decision was the aforementioned content creator, who directly asked him about what advantages he was going to have and how could i prevent trolls from existing In the net.
“What if a random user pays $8 and changes their name to Elon Musk, using your same profile picture, and starts tweeting as if they were you? There is verification for people to identify that they are real people“, asks the Spaniard.
Musk believes that this is already happening today, which El Rubius concedes, but warns that putting only payment as a filter can increase this problem.
Taking advantage of the fact that he had a direct line with the owner of Twitter, he made him a proposal: “I would gladly pay $8 by having profile pictures, animated ads, or more customization in general. It should be easy to do on Twitter what you did with cars!«.
The ‘chief tweeter’ liked the idea.
If verified accounts violate terms of service, eg spam/scam/impersonation, they’ll be suspended, but Twitter will keep their money!
We will definitely add cool stuff like what you’re suggesting to Twitter Blue.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
“If the verified accounts violate the conditions of service, such as spam, fraud or identity theft, they will be suspended, but Twitter will keep the money,” he points out about the first complaints from ‘El Rubius’, and promises that “cool things will definitely be added like the ones you propose to Twitter Azul“, he assures.
It is not the first conversation that the owner of Twitter maintains in the social network to discuss the future of it. Just 24 hours before El Rubius, Musk and Stephen King, the legendary horror writer, also discussed the price of having verified accounts.
It was in this talk that he first advanced that the price was going to be $8.