Paid verification isn’t verification at all, if no actual verification is taking place. Rather than call these “verified” accounts (as currently architected before Twitter pulled it back), a more apt label might be “paid member” since that’s all it is. This doesn’t convey any imprimatur of trustworthiness to what such a member posts, or even if this user is who they say they are. It only indicates that this user paid for that check mark, which is meaningless in that context. Being a paid member might enable certain extra features (e.g., bumped up in the algorithm), but it wouldn’t make me think this user is any more trustworthy. It only means they’re willing to pay for that check mark. At least that’s how I see it.
The only good part is you can click them to see which type of "verified" the account is. Unfortunately we all know most people won't click to verify the "verification".
@@jmr even Elons twitter account says blue member. Ppl who went ahead and signed up for blue because they were told they are losing the check mark had it converted on that screen you are referring to.
@@jmr I think all this could been fine with a real vitrification process, make ppl show ids or something, then you can charge them and it’s actually a verified person. Just getting the checkmark is something else
Considering you have to have an iOS account, a credit card associated with that account, which basically means you have a real physical address and you are a real person with a real credit score, what more verification do you need?
@@LonSeidman Problem I see with Mastadon is that depending on which server you join the content that you are allowed to see from that server could be already filtered by the onwer of that Mastadon server. I prefer to do my own filtering and I regularly prune my Twitter subscriptions. I use Tweetdeck on Windows so I see the chronological stream of tweets without promoted tweets or ads.
That is a suggestion that Twitter may pay for big RUclipsrs to use their service most RUclipsrs won't do it because they look at what happened with ninja and mixer everyone just thinks he's corrupt now
I paid for Twitter Blue and get a few of the features but not the ones I wanted. I bought it specifically for the Longer Tweets feature, but that's not one of the features I actually ended up with. So far as I can tell, the only features I actually got were "Undo Tweet", "Edit Tweet", and "Text formatting". I didn't get anything else, not even the blue check.
Lon, your poll was a good indication of what your followers think of Twitter. Because of it's brevity, it's not the platform for meaningful discussion.
i wish there were more plan for less expensives alternatives, cause 2 or 3 $ per months seems fine, but 8 means 100 $ each year. i think it's interesting when you're focused on twitter and don't have dozen of social profiles.
The first 24 hours were hilarious as long as you didn't hold Eli Lilly stock but a lot of people I know on Twitter are preparing to run. The tech crowd seems to be leaning toward Mastadon as a potential replacement because it's federated and decentralized.
It's funny after all of this social media stuff we ended up back where we started with a decentralized system :). I have built out a pretty nifty RSS dashboard that I'm using quite a bit these days.
@@LonSeidman An RSS dashboard? What kind of feeds are you pulling down? I'm just using RSS for podcasts and the Rpilocator RSS feed right now. I have an automation that sends me a notification when the correct PI shows up or a new podcast.
@@redbaron474 The "Official" Tesla account was the best IMHO. The "Official" Eli Lilly account was funny but I felt a little bad for people that did not know. "Insulin will now be free" probably got some people's hopes up well it hurt stock prices.
@@marco31 Some will some won't. I'm starting to like Mastadon better. I will be using both for the moment. I see Jeff Geerling is staying with Twitter but advertising his website an alternative. Mastadon won't take Twitter down but the uncertainty is going to limit growth because right now no one wants to invest in it's future. I hear people can't even check out their data right now.
i mostly just got it because of my channel but also because i wanted to test it out and it's been such a mess i never cared much for the checkmark but i still am glad i have it regardless
I got my Twitter badge, Lon. It helps me keep my Twitter profile more professional. I believe you made a wise choice, Lon. I didn't start following you on Twitter until you got that badge so the badge definitely helps.
No it doesn't, it makes you feel and look more important than you really are... the average person doesn't need a blue check mark. And by the pure virtue that anyone can buy one, it doesn't make you seem more legitimate or trustworthy, seeing as any radical or crazy can buy one.
Some features and functions that are mentioned in the video can be obtained through the API directly or by using specific P.... programs... for free. The blue 'thing' seems to be a desperate attempt to bring in some money.
I appreciate you stating as neutral as possible. I can't tell you how much I dislike when Tech RUclipsrs start pushing their politics and all I want is fun or informative tech videos. I hope twitter shares its monetization and your channel grows 👍🏼, excellent video as always.
What a joke. By not being "political" Lon is actually showing more of his *** than he thinks. He owns and has covered his Tesla car and his Starlink connections. Save for maybe SpaceX (which he also likes talking about!), he's put money into all of Elon's ventures and continues to pussyfoot around actually talking about the guy. So much of the tech media is talking about and condeming Musk's insanity while Lon plays the middle, thinking no one will notice. Something's up.
Pushing politics? Or politics you don't agree with, there's a difference. Life is political, people that bury their heads in the sand and pretend it's not are the ones complaining.
I don’t like the fact you can pay for a blue tick on twitter. Im glad it tells you people pay for it and not for gaining it from years of hard work getting it. Defeats the purpose of it but that’s my opinion
believe it or not i think twitter blue is great to fight against trolls, that creates dozen accounts, aren't ready to pay and even less exchange their anonymity by giving their credit card number. plus if it can help to be promoted as an influencer, it's all good. i don't understand all the hate againt elon musk, he's a true innovator of our era, especially with the tesla home. i think he also says regulary that ia will get more power than humans at some point, and he's againt it. i'm not very well documented about him, but he definitely has much different values than apple, google and other popular brands. i think the next step planned is is to make twitter the next youtube, by increasing the duration lenght of the videos you can upload.
I am seeing a lot more tweets from accounts which are followed by accounts I follow. Which is annoying since these are tweets with a lot of replies, which make it kind of pointless to reply to. Which makes Twitter something where I am reading instead of being involved in the conversation.
Good overview, but be careful as you don't want your good name and reputation associated with this cluster____. Major brands are fleeing in droves, and the only thing ahead for them is Chapter 11.
3 types of people that use Twitter. 1. The elderly. 2. The enfeebled. 3. Narcissists. I'm glad you could tell us about the new features before Twitter implodes.
Paying to be "famous" and " relevant".... Nah, I'm good. I have about 500 Marines "follow" me, but I actually get paid for it.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣... You just wasted your money..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude, I cringe every time you say "Twitter isnt that big". Are you seriously that delusional? Twitter is SO big that it has taken the place of virtually all networks that have to do with news. I know how you voted captain cardigan.
Paid verification isn’t verification at all, if no actual verification is taking place. Rather than call these “verified” accounts (as currently architected before Twitter pulled it back), a more apt label might be “paid member” since that’s all it is. This doesn’t convey any imprimatur of trustworthiness to what such a member posts, or even if this user is who they say they are. It only indicates that this user paid for that check mark, which is meaningless in that context. Being a paid member might enable certain extra features (e.g., bumped up in the algorithm), but it wouldn’t make me think this user is any more trustworthy. It only means they’re willing to pay for that check mark. At least that’s how I see it.
The only good part is you can click them to see which type of "verified" the account is. Unfortunately we all know most people won't click to verify the "verification".
@@jmr even Elons twitter account says blue member. Ppl who went ahead and signed up for blue because they were told they are losing the check mark had it converted on that screen you are referring to.
@@pbbryant9651 Another brilliant move by Elon!
@@jmr I think all this could been fine with a real vitrification process, make ppl show ids or something, then you can charge them and it’s actually a verified person. Just getting the checkmark is something else
Considering you have to have an iOS account, a credit card associated with that account, which basically means you have a real physical address and you are a real person with a real credit score, what more verification do you need?
Are you going to take a look at Mastodon?
Twitter is fine it seems a bit chaotic at the moment but we will get there trust me
Yes I set up an account the other day need to play with it more !
I have an account over there
@@LonSeidman Problem I see with Mastadon is that depending on which server you join the content that you are allowed to see from that server could be already filtered by the onwer of that Mastadon server. I prefer to do my own filtering and I regularly prune my Twitter subscriptions. I use Tweetdeck on Windows so I see the chronological stream of tweets without promoted tweets or ads.
That is a suggestion that Twitter may pay for big RUclipsrs to use their service most RUclipsrs won't do it because they look at what happened with ninja and mixer everyone just thinks he's corrupt now
8:14 I paid for the twitter blue but after a week still no blue check why does it takes so long?
I subscribed for twitter blue 8 days back but still not received. Do you have any idea how long it will take and will I get a mail or text message?
Did you get it ?
I use Twitter, but not to post tweets. I follow mostly news and sports accounts. It works well for me.
I have been on Twitter for 14 years and Tweet or retweet daily as well as follow tech and news people. Have made friends on Twitter over the years.
Fake news
I paid for Twitter Blue over a month ago, and haven't received the service yet.
I paid for Twitter Blue and get a few of the features but not the ones I wanted. I bought it specifically for the Longer Tweets feature, but that's not one of the features I actually ended up with. So far as I can tell, the only features I actually got were "Undo Tweet", "Edit Tweet", and "Text formatting". I didn't get anything else, not even the blue check.
you are dead on for RUclips premium. It's a great product and I think brings better value to the platform vs charging creators.
Lon, your poll was a good indication of what your followers think of Twitter. Because of it's brevity, it's not the platform for meaningful discussion.
you're totally right...even fb (personally) is better than twitter!!!
i wish there were more plan for less expensives alternatives, cause 2 or 3 $ per months seems fine, but 8 means 100 $ each year. i think it's interesting when you're focused on twitter and don't have dozen of social profiles.
He plans to reinstate it at the end of the week the tick
lol, Twitter already dropped $8 Blue like 3 days after it launched.
Twitter Blue subscription is back now. I have subscribed today January 1st, 2023
The first 24 hours were hilarious as long as you didn't hold Eli Lilly stock but a lot of people I know on Twitter are preparing to run. The tech crowd seems to be leaning toward Mastadon as a potential replacement because it's federated and decentralized.
It's funny after all of this social media stuff we ended up back where we started with a decentralized system :). I have built out a pretty nifty RSS dashboard that I'm using quite a bit these days.
@@LonSeidman An RSS dashboard? What kind of feeds are you pulling down? I'm just using RSS for podcasts and the Rpilocator RSS feed right now. I have an automation that sends me a notification when the correct PI shows up or a new podcast.
Damn right it was hilarious! How many "blue parodies" did you see?
@@redbaron474 The "Official" Tesla account was the best IMHO. The "Official" Eli Lilly account was funny but I felt a little bad for people that did not know. "Insulin will now be free" probably got some people's hopes up well it hurt stock prices.
@@marco31 Some will some won't. I'm starting to like Mastadon better. I will be using both for the moment. I see Jeff Geerling is staying with Twitter but advertising his website an alternative. Mastadon won't take Twitter down but the uncertainty is going to limit growth because right now no one wants to invest in it's future. I hear people can't even check out their data right now.
i mostly just got it because of my channel but also because i wanted to test it out and it's been such a mess
i never cared much for the checkmark
but i still am glad i have it regardless
Have you notice an big increase in engagement and followers ?
I got my Twitter badge, Lon. It helps me keep my Twitter profile more professional. I believe you made a wise choice, Lon. I didn't start following you on Twitter until you got that badge so the badge definitely helps.
No it doesn't, it makes you feel and look more important than you really are... the average person doesn't need a blue check mark. And by the pure virtue that anyone can buy one, it doesn't make you seem more legitimate or trustworthy, seeing as any radical or crazy can buy one.
How does the edit button work does he ever go away can you edit a tweet that has gone viral change the links
Do you by any chance know if we’re getting Twitter Blue again ?
Some features and functions that are mentioned in the video can be obtained through the API directly or by using specific P.... programs... for free. The blue 'thing' seems to be a desperate attempt to bring in some money.
I appreciate you stating as neutral as possible. I can't tell you how much I dislike when Tech RUclipsrs start pushing their politics and all I want is fun or informative tech videos. I hope twitter shares its monetization and your channel grows 👍🏼, excellent video as always.
What a joke. By not being "political" Lon is actually showing more of his *** than he thinks. He owns and has covered his Tesla car and his Starlink connections. Save for maybe SpaceX (which he also likes talking about!), he's put money into all of Elon's ventures and continues to pussyfoot around actually talking about the guy. So much of the tech media is talking about and condeming Musk's insanity while Lon plays the middle, thinking no one will notice. Something's up.
Pushing politics? Or politics you don't agree with, there's a difference. Life is political, people that bury their heads in the sand and pretend it's not are the ones complaining.
@@Liofa73 There’s a time and place for politics. I don’t want to talk about mine or hear about yours when I’m looking for specific information.
How much times I must wait to get the blue badge? I subscribed today
Have you gotten it yet?
I don’t like the fact you can pay for a blue tick on twitter. Im glad it tells you people pay for it and not for gaining it from years of hard work getting it. Defeats the purpose of it but that’s my opinion
believe it or not i think twitter blue is great to fight against trolls, that creates dozen accounts, aren't ready to pay and even less exchange their anonymity by giving their credit card number. plus if it can help to be promoted as an influencer, it's all good. i don't understand all the hate againt elon musk, he's a true innovator of our era, especially with the tesla home.
i think he also says regulary that ia will get more power than humans at some point, and he's againt it. i'm not very well documented about him, but he definitely has much different values than apple, google and other popular brands. i think the next step planned is is to make twitter the next youtube, by increasing the duration lenght of the videos you can upload.
I am seeing a lot more tweets from accounts which are followed by accounts I follow. Which is annoying since these are tweets with a lot of replies, which make it kind of pointless to reply to. Which makes Twitter something where I am reading instead of being involved in the conversation.
nice review, take care lon
Thanks for this great overview during this Twitter madness!
I'm a simple guy... I see someone with a verified mark acquired via twitter blue, I hit block
14:39 Zero verification, Zero! That's the thing. How stupid is that!?
I would very much want to have Twitter Blue without having advertisements.
You of all spambots can kiss your f*ing a* goodbye... 😠 Reported...
I hate swearing so much, but these spambots are a FPITA.
Cost is more for iOS users
Just saw that Barack Obama follows Lon on Twitter 🤯
He followed everybody that followed him back in the day
Good overview, but be careful as you don't want your good name and reputation associated with this cluster____. Major brands are fleeing in droves, and the only thing ahead for them is Chapter 11.
Lol. If you want to associate yourself with a toxic brand, sure.
Lame.
The only thing that works is the anti-drunk system 🤣
Lots of nothing! Haha
Twitter - rhymes with Sh*tter
3 types of people that use Twitter.
1. The elderly.
2. The enfeebled.
3. Narcissists.
I'm glad you could tell us about the new features before Twitter implodes.
It’s not worth it. Don’t pay for a check mark
Paying to be "famous" and " relevant".... Nah, I'm good. I have about 500 Marines "follow" me, but I actually get paid for it.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣... You just wasted your money..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude, I cringe every time you say "Twitter isnt that big". Are you seriously that delusional? Twitter is SO big that it has taken the place of virtually all networks that have to do with news. I know how you voted captain cardigan.
I just Downloaded Mastodon.
I will give it a Try. 👍
Several others....mind, truth, gab, mewe parler, counter social, tribal, and at least 20 more.