It's because having the checkmark prioritises your visibility in replies and feed.
Elon isn't a "content is king" which is what all the successful social media people have been for decades now. The goal has always been to promote the highest quality content (to the largest number of people) to visibility because that's the content people wanna see and you're competing with every other social media site for their time and attention. If you don't have the content, someone else will attract them with better content.
The new blue check goes against all of this. The people buying it are the people who make TRASH CONTENT.
Twitter, and all social media, is gameified. Gameification makes it a game. Scoring points is a game. Getting visibility is a game.
They made the game pay 2 win. The response and attitude to doing that is extremely similar to videogames.
It's because having the checkmark prioritises your visibility in replies and feed.
Elon isn't a "content is king" which is what all the successful social media people have been for decades now. The goal has always been to promote the highest quality content (to the largest number of people) to visibility because that's the content people wanna see and you're competing with every other social media site for their time and attention. If you don't have the content, someone else will attract them with better content.
The new blue check goes against all of this. The people buying it are the people who make TRASH CONTENT.
Twitter, and all social media, is gameified. Gameification makes it a game. Scoring points is a game. Getting visibility is a game.
They made the game pay 2 win. The response and attitude to doing that is extremely similar to videogames.
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The people paying for it are bazinga brains, enriched for the reactionary suburbanite tendency.
This means anyine trying to use Twitter for lefty things is always gonna have their first reply be the obsessive troll.
The funniest part is they're framing it as "elites are mad the everyday person can have verified status now"