What do you guys think of paid verification on instagram/twitter ?

16 comments

1. Waste of money, but everyone is free to do with their income as they please.

2. Ain’t trickin’ if you got it

3. I don’t use either. But if I did and they tried to charge me, that would be the last time I used those apps.

   Too many “services” are trying to nickel and dime people to death.

4. I think it’s a smart business move. Those who find a blue check mark or whatever so important will obviously pay to have it.

5. I find both sites to be uninteresting, so I don’t visit them.

   But if you are a public entity, and a site like Twitter says “You need to pay us or someone else could publicly claim to be you and we would support that claim,” then that is somewhat of a problem. I would say that Yelp has a similar problem with restaurants and the like.

   Not sure what the solution for that is, other than continuing to not really like those websites.

6. I use the sites but have no interest in a checkmark. I honestly stopped paying attention if a site has a checkmark, i’d usually check some places official websites to make sure it was the legit feed.

7. Makes sense for people/companies with legit worries about being impersonated.

   Silly for regular normies to pay for.

8. I mean if I were to get to the point in life where others wanna pretend to be me, I’d get verification. Still find it stupid to pay for it really but if that protects ppl from scammers pretending to be me

9. Its a cash-grab to generate revenue. Twitter is in a nosedive and Instagram needs the $$ to offset the billions lost on metaverse.

10. People still use Twitter?..Thought it burnt down

11. I don’t.

12. I can’t imagine why anyone would do it other than to impersonate people.

13. Fuck them.

    I’m already being overcharged by having my data extracted for services much cheaper than what my datas worth. If they think they can charge me again. Fuck them.

14. I’m not an influencer so I don’t bother with it (and therefore I didn’t apply to the existing free verification on Instagram). But for the right crowd I believe it would be nice even though the benefits are “just” being verified and promoted higher by the algorithm. If I were Meta, I would’ve tossed no ads there as well.

15. Many companies create demand for products we never really needed, but somehow are marketed as important. This is definitely one of them.

16. Only morons use either of those, so I’m sure they’ll all pay up.