X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month or risk losing verification status

by niuzeta on 7/26/2023, 10:58:48 PM with 25 comments

  • by AndrewKemendo on 7/27/2023, 2:46:13 AM

    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

  • by kalleboo on 7/27/2023, 3:43:20 AM

    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.

  • by abrookewood on 7/27/2023, 4:24:11 AM

    Sounds a lot like a protection racket ...

  • by andeee23 on 7/27/2023, 8:07:55 AM

    i guess you can call that… Xtortion

  • by rchaud on 7/27/2023, 12:53:36 PM

    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.

  • by aio2 on 7/27/2023, 1:53:19 AM

    From 8 to 1000... that's quite the jump.

  • by anon373839 on 7/27/2023, 6:25:31 AM

    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...

  • by kjs3 on 7/27/2023, 3:43:50 AM

    "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.

  • by sillywalk on 7/27/2023, 8:28:48 AM

    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.

  • by ozfive on 7/27/2023, 1:39:14 AM

    Got my popcorn right here...

  • by matteoraso on 7/27/2023, 3:13:47 AM

    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.