What happened to Twitter after the Elon Musk takeover?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- On October 29th, Elon Musk officially took ownership of Twitter, and he's already dissolved the board of directors and installed himself as CEO. But can he run a social network the way he runs SpaceX and Tesla?
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How much would you pay for a blue check mark?
$0.00
Nothing.
1.99$/year
You think they would be wanting to hand out ✅️ to verified celebrities, companies, etc. In return attracting users. He is really stupid.
Zip zero. Stingy with dinero.
The problem with Twitter was never the platform. It's the people. And I don't see how Elon, or anyone else for that matter, can change that.
If that's the case, why can't people leave? No one is forcing anyone to come on to twitter. They can make their own platform or move to another. I don't see the conscious effort of users to say they're going to leave if the public space change and for whatever reason, they log back in.
You obviously have no Idea why what he’s doing is important.
@headbang419 definitely doesn't help that Elon Musk is pretty much one of those people.
@@teravega it won't be as fun for you to use the n word if we aren't there to see it. Everything Republicans do.......they do for us 😉
@@MrGert150 do you?
Didn’t even touch on brand safety and advertisers. C+
If I had $44B to piss away on a toy, it sure wouldn't be Twitter.
Perfectly fine with charging for check mark. It's basically just celebrities, companies and tv personalities.
and now anyone who can pay 8 dollars a month lol. it's lost all meaning, if it had any to begin with. i doubt it will be enough to generate any significant revenue, either.
@@snowballeffect7812 So why can’t general public get a blue tick? Aren’t they worth it ?
@@amys5420 What do you think the purpose of the blue check was? If anyone can pay for it, why should I care?
Some of those blue check marks actually drive volume and participation in twitter - wouldn’t charging them be bad for business?
@@amys5420 what is the objective of the blue check mark? I thought it was to help people know that they were dealing with the correct public figure
Damn I didn’t realize twitter was founded 2 years after Facebook. I always assumed it was a newer social network.
And technically that is correct, the best kind of correct
It used to be pretty respectable. It was a way to spread information to colleagues, notably journalists or scientists. Around 2012 I noticed a shift and by 2015 it became basically the comments section of a controversial TH-cam video 😂
It's been just a week lol, chill
This comment is not aging well pretty quickly
Short answer to the title of this video = Nobody knows. Not even Elon.
People are so angry Elon bought Twitter 😂
Some people are... Most of us are definitely not
I love it! If he cleans it up great! If it fails, oh well.
Somewhere between 2017-2018 The Verge took a weird turn…
Super disappointed
What happened to it?
Of course the elites are in them now.
"Please complain. But pay that $8" - Elon Musk
thanks to Stephen King it was reduced from 20 dollars
I’ve recently just began enjoying and using Twitter after YEARS
what changes made you feel that way?
@@abraknior new leadership
I still find the user experience to be atrocious. I have to use it for work once in a while but other than that I forget it's a thing. On Reddit instead
background music and mixing was fire
What happened to the 'make your own site its private company' lmao
Why would someone who bought a losing company , need to keep the current executive and staff team? it's been proven they aren't able to be profitable .
Same with the security people. It's not like Elon is afraid of the FTC going after him.
Elon: "I don't care about the money at all"
Also Elon: "$8 a month"
He doesn’t care about spending $40B today if it means the company doubles in value tomorrow.
This, exactly this. It’s about the future value.
People that comment “hE dOeSnT CaRe AbOuT MoNeY BuUuT” either have no idea about business, finance and such or are just trying to get “dislikes, upvotes”
Hypocritical guy
@@AZTECNINJAWARRIOR no it won’t
@@NINAVI the famous everything app... lol...
Elon absolutely cares about the economics and making money.
That's the problem....
Nah and Yes
No and yes
“Racial slurs” that’s not a reason to not uphold democracy and free speech.
Now it's Facebooks turn. It desperately needs new management and approach. I work with FB business for years and in a few last years it became unbearable. Incompetent support, random account restrictions, messy unintuitive buggy interface. Stock drops are absolutely justified.
Have you work with Twitter or TH-cam support? It's far worst
@@davadh Twitter is not that popular in our country ang Google Ads support and platform itself is absolutely fine compared to FB. FB is a freakin nightmare.
Facebook is awful in so many ways
Thank you for confirming my suspicions
Adios Twitter?
Rename Twitter to Muskitter. 😂
Bro bought an entire circus
Eobard Thawne owns Twitter, now what?
Is this guy pissed he lost his blue check
This takeover did not happen quickly....
First and foremost Vine never should have been ousted. A company cannot make money is companies’ problem not its great products.
Elon nah bring vine back
Vine was the best sadly it was forgotten and never worked on. Vine could have been tick tok
It's been less than a week and he's already completely Liz Truss'd up the platform.
Loved the BBC interview with verge editor in chief today. BBC / the verge should upload that!
I liked the point.
It's not about the economics said Bruce Wayne.
"anyone left to keep the platform running" instant reaction would be "lol"
Must be a real great journalist
How many people are actually needed to run & develop twitter?
4? 5? More than 5?
Musk, please close Twitter. You would win a Nobel prize.
Don’t think he wants to lose 40 billion, but hey I could be wrong.
How about you leave and pretend it’s not here anymore
If Twitter is impacting ur life, it’s ur fault. Twitter has had no effect on my life positive or negative. So I don’t believe it has impact on anyone’s life. It’s how snowflakes react to over non issues that make twitter as a target of grievance will
That is not smart. Big loss of revenue. It must transform and become worth even more. Buy low sell high lmao
Smarrrrtttt
Why would he buy Twitter and make no changes? Also, I’m pretty sure assigning a deadline to a project is called normal business. All these “Twitter is dead now” posts are from people who just don’t like Elon.
If you think that, you haven't looked at the posts properly. Just watch Thunderfoots videos.
This guy is making many assumptions with little to no information on what is happening behind the scenes. The $8 charge would get you more than a check mark. If you don't want to pay, stick with the free account. We have no idea what Elon is ultimately going to do. He obviously likes to think out loud and get feedback. Right now it's all wait-and-see.
He crowd sources because he's not brilliant like everyone thinks he is, his whole life he's been very good at taking credit for other people's work.
@@morgans4977 and apparently attracting very unintelligent sycophants who will white knight for him without charging a fee.
You’re so blind you’re missing the principle. Why charge for something that’s been free for years… it’s just like if TH-cam decided to make a paid subscription just to watch your favorite videos… it just wouldn’t work all a sudden.
@@1Raunchy $8 gets you more than a checkmark.
@@morgans4977 Maybe, but how many things did Steve Jobs actually create? Some people are visionaries who put the right people around them to make stuff happen. No one can deny Steve Jobs did that, and Elon has done the same.
He bought an Edsel car
I never used Twitter in my life.
Congratulations...???
Good for you. You’re not missing out
Your either 8 or 80.
Ok nobody cares
And yet you are watching a video about Twitter. It's that good..
Buzzfeed
Taking DHS out of the equation is the only win possible for twitter
Verge opinion guys should revisit this video after 3 months and this time some real facts rather that " Seems to be going down" bs
It will just turn into a paid membership site and ad spend platform I reckon revenue driven
it will become the next OnlyFans
It's been two days since this video was posted and he's already tanking the company lol. Advertisers are pulling out left and right and his silly subscription plan would only pay a minuscule fraction of its operating costs (assuming people actually pay for it).
Come back and re-look at your comment in six months. Let's see what happens...
I love watching it happen
@@theonetrueking2685 twitter will be irrelevant in 6 months
I can't wait for the documentary
@@HaroldTheWizardCat I don't think so. It's literally how nations communicate now.
I'm not on Twitter. Have I missed out on something?
“Mad Mad Muskx beyond twitterdome!!!” Coined by me
Soooo...im kinda new at being a twitter user.
I just use it to look at news and stuff, i just comment here and there, i dont post anything.
Does that mean i have to pay for my account? Im a little confused.
@@myknees Thank you for the info. ❤️
Loving these narcissistic wealth-thieves clowning on themselves so hard.
the point gets 'em every time
Swing and a miss Verge!!
It’s funny how people who outspend most people daily are fretting about 20 dollars ? Really ..
i don't think you understand the point. the blue checkmark is meaningless, now. I can go start an account and impersonate a person or company and get a blue checkmark with impunity. it's become meaningless. he'll probably have to convert current blue checkmarks to some other "verified" checkmark so people know an account is "real", but all that does is create a tiered system. Blue checkmarks will need something to make it worthwhile if there's a different checkmark for "real" accounts, so he'll probably give them services like editing or something.
I wonder how dieter would do this video 🙃
If he doesn't care about the economics of it, why is he adamant on having an $8 membership?
He doesn’t care but that doesn’t mean he will loose his own money. He wants to run Twitter by its own money. That blue thing is for the professionals and for them $8 per month is nothing. It will make the platform more robust and secure. Just imagine Apple is doing all kinds of promotions for free where they can easily afford much more than that.
@@shamscorner Except it's not. Users who don't pay would have a significantly worse experience compared to what they have now (more ads, less engagement). Don't mind paying, but the reason given (elimination of bots and spam) doesn't align with what is offered.
That $8 member subscription will come with features not offered on free sign-ups.
Elon could have created an alternative social network (and then join all other social networks in a federation where users could post cross-platform) if he really cared about the things he says he cares about. And it probably would have cost him less than a billion a year until he found a way to make it profitable. Even if that took 10 years, he'd still be making a better deal. He didn't buy GM, he created Tesla. He didn't buy a rocker builder, he created SpaceX. He should have created a social network instead of buying one.
Maybe but twitter was used worldwide and its a house hold name. You wont see leader across the globe talking on a New social platform like twitter does.
Unless Twitter goes under of course.
Elons cars are like the Starbucks coffee version of cars. When he got involved with Tesla it was worth 1 million dollars. He has a company that builds rockets. I would be hesitant to say what he should and shouldn't do at this point.
I get your point but he literally bought Tesla a year after it's founding.
@@sean_mc That's true, and now he's a lot richer. So I assume now he has more financial freedom to make more risks. Or possibly it's not a risk and we just for see it. He has a lot of determination. Tesla should be bankrupt. But he himself worked many long hours to make it work. He lived in his office at Tesla for a while to make things happen.
He already talked about a new social network but never gone for development yet
good work but try to avoid using the same b-roll twice in one video
Great news
Verification Check is just for public figure accounts which might suffer identity theft on social platforms. Letting people have that mark just by paying an amount just makes that mark lose its worth.
Consider this, iPhone 2G holds a lot of value now because it’s rare. If everyone could have it easily, it wouldn’t hold that value it does today.
There is a point to the fact that Elons belief in free speech will destroy its relationships with advertisers
He's a fascist. Fascists DON'T ACTUALLY believe in "free speech".
Elon doesn't believe in free speech, he misunderstands it. He misunderstands the terms freedom and consciousnes.
@@DetroitMicroSound I amend it to “elons concept of free speech”
@@duckmasterflex Agree, entirely. Here comes the next MySpace.
oh, he actually bought twitter now?
“You have freedom of speech if you pay us 8$ and don’t say anything we don’t like”
"I made up a random shower-conversation quote."
People wants to work with Elon.
Twitter HQ will soon be on Mars.
HE DOESN"T THINK LIKE US. GIVE HIM ADVICE AFTER BUYING JUST A 1 BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY.
Not sure it matters as I quite the day he announced he was buying twitter.
Elons Way
JOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hopefully scammers won't take advantage of this subscription thing
what would the advantage be?
@@oprrrah3498 you know faking as same corporate entities or famous people to scam people
Beast
It’s clear as day that Elon will only be making Twitter a more tumultuous place.
ending objective version: "But if he can he might have bought the goose that lays golden eggs"
MG Monika from Rhine 👊
The problem is going to be advertising money in my opinion advertising was always less about selling products and more about control Walmart spends 3or4 billion a year in advertising and who doesn't know where their local Walmart is and that it has all the latest products they need to spend 3 billion to tell you while their work force is do underpaid that they are on food stamps anyway Elon a lot of the biggest companies don't want free speech that's not the direction they are going
Safe to say the Verge doesn’t like Elon.
Whoops
You guys used to be a tech-news site. This is just salty pondering. I miss Walt Mossberg.
Now he is screwed
A decentralisated corporate
Elon Musk is just bump and drop
Like doge coin
Twitter is the internet trolls Haven now they switching to TikTok it's more fun in TikTok, twitter now is for old people who argues about politics 😂
He took twitter private.
Africa and Asia
vine lest fking gooooo 🤯😁
The burn is real 🔥 😂😂😂
This video is strongly opinionated even though it’s only been a few days since the takeover. No one has enough info to make solid conclusions yet. Everyone just wants to look smart.
Just like your opinion.
@@kielvostro Touché 😄
Now what? -- queue negative bias content from all left-aligned social media
Elon scares The Verge confirmed.
l take
This is a Liberal viewpoint. Twitter is going to be way better now!
Elon the bagholder. Should have built something new.
It's so hilarious he was forced to go through with the deal lmao. grats to the twitter stockholders for the huge windfall off a hemorrhaging platform.
❤️❤️
If one man owns a thing, its the opposite of 'public'. Twitter isnt and wont ever be a town square, its Elons living room
It never was the town square. Its a bunch of woke idiots and their bots kicking and screaming every time someone they didn’t like got some attention on “their” platform.
That he opens to the public with less restrictions than the previous owners. That’s more public, no?
@@KRE8TVT less official guard rails, but if you do anything to annoy Elon he'll react emotionally and erratically and try to call it common sense. Meanwhile being horrible to his employees, I do not understand why people laud this man.
@@KRE8TVT he owns the whole thing so it’s private. I might let you borrow my lawn mower, but you don’t get to pick when you have access because it’s mine. (this analogy isn’t perfect but you get what i mean?)
@@KRE8TVT it might also help to think of Elon as being similar to royalty. King let’s his subjects play on the grass, but still has control over who, when, if, where and how. feels public, isn’t public
Next is instagram
Ha sure, as if CEO take over drama is any different elsewhere...
do you mean corporate buyouts? CEOs don't necessarily own a company and new CEO's taking over is relatively routine and without much fuss.
Without much fuss? How many companies have you worked for? Buyouts usually mean everyone gets axed. At least where I've worked.
@@moabman6803 i'm assuming you're replying to me, which is a bit silly considering you clearly did not comprehend my reply. A CEO change is different from a buyout. I've worked for several corporations, one of which had their CEO swap three times for political reasons with next to no effect on the workers.
The problem with your analysis is that there wont be any staff chaos,
As a dev, i can tell you this, there are enough qualifed devs teeming to work for twitter regardless of its ownership or diversity acceptance as long as it has reasonable pay.
I think musk will prove yall wrong.
I'm a dev too and I disagree. Why would I work for him when I have so many options?
@@Wizzoryx You are an obvious BOT
@@Wizzoryx
The better question is why wont you work for him?
Your answer to that is the same reason why others will happily work for him if you are willing to look past your point of view.
I'm also a dev and wouldn't work for musk if he doubled my pay. Guy is just so volatile and loony. I'd rather have a reliable, stable CEO running the ship versus a guy who wants me to print out my code and make me deploy 1-week rush jobs or face termination.
@@jomotv2320 as I explained in the previous comment, I have plenty of options. I wouldn’t wanna work for an unstable man that has a history of having toxic work environment/unrealistic timelines.
So all this video is about is to put down Elon musk. Doesn't seem like anything else.
Lol love how all these liberal woke companies are now trying to hard to bring Twitter down 😂
Yes, “trying to bring down” a sinking ship by….fleeing said sinking ship
IMO all the engineers should quit, they will find jobs easily and will not have to deal with any of the Musk nonsense
1:14 Twitter actually just made profit. 44 billions.
That's obviously not a profit
The company doesn't get that money. It goes to the shareholders.
OPEN SOURCE......
What an absolute Verge take again.
thats why cant trust them anymore
Oh no, a blog news outlet has a different take on the situation than you want them to have. Sounds like you are the one with the problem.
Free speech baabyyy
Meh don't care
If Twitter tanks it would be the best example of karma ever witnessed. Go Elon go!
so much wrong informations