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Comment by ladon86 | Hacker News Reader

What about $7.99/mo to apply for and keep a blue check? It’s only displayed if you’re verified _and_ a subscriber.

The blue check, calling card of the Twitter cultural elite, is such a highly coveted status symbol that it's almost incomprehensible to me that Twitter hasn't come up with a way to directly monetize it. It's an incredible amount of value just sitting there.

My understanding is that they basically have.

If your ad spend is greater than ~$5k, you get a twitter liaison that can fast-track verification.

Seems self-defeating if any significant number of people, like me, block every individual from whom I see a promoted tweet. (I assume that such tweets are the only way an individual rather than a corporation would have a non negligible ad spend?)

I guess not many people do as I do. But promoting one’s stupid tweets is a pretty good indication of someone I do not and will never have any interest in hearing from… I suppose I might make an exception for a sufficiently funny/edgy promoted tweet, but I also suspect that twitter enforces stricter content rules on promoted tweets?

I agree with you. But I think it's a relatively niche position (by niche, I mean less than 1% of the population).

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aaron-Ahuvia/publicatio...

or charge few cents per post for users with large number of followers. if you have thousands for followers you should be little careful in terms of what you post. charging money would put some control.

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